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  Poverty and children's schooling in urban and rural Senegal

  Population Council, USA, 2005

  This paper examines the effects of living-standards and relative poverty on children’s schooling in urban and rural areas of Senegal.Findings include:in Senegal’s urban areas, living standards exert substantial influence on three measures of schooling: whether a child has ever attended school; whether he or she has completed at least four grades of primary school; and whether he or she
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  Children’s feedback committees in Zimbabwe: an experiment in humanitarian accountability

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This publication chronicles the attempt by Save the Children (UK) to set up an accountability project, related to the agency’s food aid intervention in Zimbabwe, that would address some of the issues of aid worker accountability.
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  Market failures in health and education investment for the young, Mexico 2000

  Global Development Network, 2003

  The diffusion and use of knowledge in economic activities has become one of the crucial determinants of economic growth. Moreover, pro-market reforms have made the accumulation of human capital and knowledge central to economic growth.
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  Poverty reduction strategy papers: do they matter for children and young people made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS?

  World Bank, 2004

  This study reviews PRSPs and National HIV/AIDS Plans (NSPs) to assess how HIV/AIDS is being addressed in PRSPs.Findings of the study, with regard to content and process of the PRSPs include:the PRSP process has started to add value by bringing HIV/AIDS into national poverty planning processes, but progress in transforming stated objectives into actual programmes is slowPRSP planned
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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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  Breaking poverty cycles: the importance of action in childhood

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This briefing paper examines the ways in which extreme childhood poverty can have irreversible lifetime effects. These include poor health, missed education, and poor early childcare and social protection.
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  Donors and childhood poverty: making aid work

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2005

  This policy brief examines the impact that donors can have in effectively reducing childhood poverty.
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  The 'rights' start to life: a statistical analysis of birth registration

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This report presents an analysis of the situation of birth registration.
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  Improving child wellbeing: lessons in social policy from the "high-achievers"

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This briefing looks how some poor states have made the greatest improvements in child wellbeing in recent years as a result of strong social policy.The paper finds that for these states their social indicators are now nearly comparable to those of industrialised countries. These achievements were made despite the fact that incomes were not necessarily growing rapidly.
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  A portrait of child poverty in Germany

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to estimate poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty, and the duration of time spent in and out of poverty.

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