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  Finance development: invest in children

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  This UNICEF report looks at the financial investments needed to free children from poverty and meet targets set under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The report focuses on the investments needed by governments and international organisations in health, education, and water and sanitation to secure the well-being of children.
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  The State of the World's Children 2002

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  Governments, as well as international institutions, must be held accountable for their leadership in putting the rights and well-being of children above all other concerns.The 2002 issue of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children, focuses on issues of leadership and, indeed calls for leadership from all continents and all sectors of society.
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  Beyond child labour, affirming rights

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2001

  Child labour is one of the core issues for review during the 2002 UNGASS on children and this document aims to put rights issues at the centre of discussions surrounding child labour.The document also looks at some of the major factors behind the incidence of child labour throughout the world and provides information on UNICEF's approaches to preventing child labour.
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  Children of war: the real casualties of the Afghan conflict

  British Medical Journal, 2002

  This article explores the origin of the current Afghan crisis and describes the impact of a quarter of a century of incessant conflict on Afghan children.The author concludes that: the rise of the Taliban and the genesis of the current Afghan conflict was in no small measure due to global apathy to the plight of Afghanistanthe women and children of Afghanistan, both among refugees a
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  Actual and de facto childlessness in East Java: a preliminary analysis

  Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2002

  The limitations of state provision in developing countries have meant that research on elderly welfare has more or less inevitably focussed on support available via family systems. The short answer to the question “What help exists for poor and frail elderly people?” presupposes a simple solution: their children.
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  Situation analysis of children in Tanzania

  Tanzania Online, 2001

  This report on the situation of children in Tanzania is informed by a human rights-based perspective on the well-being and development of children.The document states that although there have been signinficant macro-level developments in Tanzania these have yet to be translated into concrete improvements in the lives of children.
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  Financial globalisation and child wellbeing

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2001

  Looks at the relationship between financial crises associated with foreign capital flows on the one hand and the wellbeing of children in emerging market countries on the other.The literature on child welfare in crises suggests that the level of employment and labour incomes are the key linkage, because these constitute the major component of the incomes of poor families and affect the division
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  Social mobility in Latin America

  Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas, Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia, 2000

  This paper proposes a new measure of social mobility, It is based on schooling gap regressions and uses the Fields decomposition to determine the importance of family background in explaining teenagers' schooling gaps. The method is applied to a sample of 18 Latin American household surveys conducted in the late 1990s.
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  Children affected by HIV/AIDS: USAID project profiles

  Children Affected by AIDS, 2001

  This report from USAID provides an overview of some of the major challenges the HIV/AIDS pandemic is posing for the emotional and physical health and well-being of children across the world. The report highlights 62 USAID-funded initiatives implemented in 22 developing countries to support vulnerable childnre and adolescents.
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  Child Needs Assessment Toolkit

  Early Child Development, World Bank, 2001

  The CNA Tool Kit provides organizations working in communities impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic a methodology, questionnaire and software for assessing the needs of young children.

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