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  False starts: the exclusion of Romani children from primary education in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Amnesty International, 2006

  The low school attendance rates and poor achievement levels of Romani children in the former Yugoslavia are often explained through the use of negative stereotypes about the Roma’s "way of life" or attitude towards education.
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  The equality predicament: report on the world social situation 2005

  UN, 2005

  This report traces the trends and patterns in economic and non-economic aspects of inequality and examines their causes and consequences across and within regions and countries.
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  One in two: children are the key to Africa’s future

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This report makes the case for investment in children as the key to breaking Africa’s cycle of poverty.
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  Why we need to work more effectively in fragile states

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper lays out DfID’s commitment to working more effectively in fragile states.
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  Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

  Millennium Project, 2005

  Investing in development is the final report of the UN Millennium Project. It presents the findings and recommendations of the project, which will be reported directly to the UN Secretary-General and the Administrator of the UNDP.The report makes ten key recommendations:developing country governments should adopt development strategies bold enough to meet the MDG targets for 2015.
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  Equity in educational expenditures: can government subsidies help?

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines government education subsidy schemes in Zambia. It asks the following questions:do resources allocated by the central authority actually reach intended recipients?
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  Tamil Nadu’s midday meal scheme where assumed benefits score over hard data

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper examines Tamil Nadu's noon nutritious meal scheme, India's largest in terms of the number of beneficiaries covered.
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  Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

  World Bank, 2003

  This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  Are the MDGs feasible?

  UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2002

  This paper argues that if MDGs appear feasible at the global level, it does not necessarily imply that they will be feasible in all nations or at all locations. Averages are commonly used at each level to measure MDG progress, which can be quite misleading.
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  Benchmarking government provision of social safety nets

  World Bank, 2003

  In order to assess how much governments should spend on social programs generally, or safety nets in particular, this paper assumes that what governments can potentially do in terms of spending on social programs is given by what governments across the world are actually observed to be doing on average.This papers analyses 63 countries spending patterns from 1972-1997 using a comparative benchm

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