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    African water development report

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003
    The African Water Development Report (AWDR) presents status reports prepared by African countries around eleven themes related to water, selected in consonance with the World Water Development Report (WWDR).
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    Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par
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    Is subsidised childcare working in Guatemala City?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    As poor urban women come under increasing pressure to travel long distances to find work, what happens to their children? What can be done to improve childcare? Could neighbourhood-based childcare schemes not only mind children while mothers work, but also improve their nutritional status and offer pre-school education?
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    A solid case for improving waste reuse in Mali and Burkino Faso

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the links between urban waste management and peri-urban agriculture? How could waste be safely recycled to benefit farmers on the outskirts of cities? What policies are needed to encourage private sector engagement in waste sorting and redistribution and promote links between waste managers and peri-urban farmers?
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    Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government sponsored programme in Guatemala City

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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    Understanding linkages between urban poverty, livelihoods and natural resources

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    How are the conditions in which the urban poor live affected by changes in rural economies? How do policies targeted at rural populations indirectly affect urbanites? Can pro-poor urban policies be developed which take into account the importance of natural resources to the urban poor?
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    Guatemala City: a focus on working women and childcare

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
    This paper assesses the problems that female headed household face in terms of employment and childcare in Guatemala, and examines the impact of a public daycare programme on their employment opportunities and the nutrition of their children.Findings:the number of urban women who work for an income in Guatemala increased to 28% in 1999, 20% more than at the beginning of the decade.
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    Thin end of the wedge – under and over-nutrition in Indian women

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Nutrition research in India focuses on under- nutrition. However, rates of obesity are rising, along with chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes. Researchers from the Carolina Population Centre, USA, looked at factors linked to under and over-nutrition in Andhra Pradesh in southern India.
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    The size of the problem: malnutrition and obesity in urban India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The World Bank estimates that malnutrition costs India over US$ 10 billion each year due to lost productivity, illness and death. But the results of the largest ever survey of urban adults in India show that there is also a significant level of obesity. Health policy- makers must develop a dual approach to tackle these problems.
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    Red alert! Anaemia is widespread among women in Andhra Pradesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    South Asia has some of the highest rates of anaemia in the world, mirroring overall levels of malnutrition. Researchers from the University of North Carolina, USA, studied social and economic factors linked to anaemia in Andhra Pradesh, a southern Indian state. They found that anaemia is most common among poor urban women.

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