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    Scared at school: sexual violence against girls in South African schools

    Human Rights Watch, 2001
    Violence against women in South African society generally is widely recognized to have reached levels among the highest in the world. The government has also recognized that violent crime, a major social issue in South Africa, poses a threat to school safety, and education policy makers maintain that they are committed to ending sexual violence in schools.
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    Long-term global demographic trends: reshaping the geopolitical landscape

    Central Intelligence Agency, 2001
    This paper identifies the factors that will be most important in shaping the worldwide demographic landscape in 2020 and beyond.
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    Research on risk and vulnerability of rural women in Nepal

    Centre for Micro-Finance in Nepal, 2000
    Looks at the primary risks faced by rural women, establish how these women are currently coping with risks, and to ascertain products that might prove most useful to them.Nepal maintains a rich mix of micro-finance institutions. Among the different models, the community based savings and credit organization (SCO) has proven to be extremely effective in serving women clients.
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    HIV/AIDS and development in the education sector

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    The objective of this paper is to describe the underlying problem of HIV/AIDS in the context of education development in Southern Africa, and also to identify opportunities for remedial action and positive enablement.
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    The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.
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    Some things can't be true but are: rice, rickets, and what else?

    Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development, 2001
    How often has evidence that supported a new explanation been ignored or rejected when it did not conform to the accepted way of thinking about a particular problem? The authors describe this situation as a "paradigm blockage".
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    Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.
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    Achieving sustainable universal primary education through debt relief: the case of Kenya

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This study critically reviews the education sector in Kenya and the challenges facing the sector in achieving universal primary schooling.The study argues that the introduction of cost sharing system in Kenya has resulted in high drop out and repetition rates, low transition and completion rates.
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    The HIPC debt relief initiative, Uganda's social sector reforms and outcomes

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper identifies the constraints of Uganda's implementation of social reforms via the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP), and offers a guide for the future course of reforms. To do this, the paper provides an assessment of performance of the social sector programs being implemented.
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    Whose education counts?: the impact of grown children's education on the physical functioning of their parents in Taiwan

    Population Council, USA, 2001
    This article discusses the influence that education of children has on the physical functioning of their parents.The article finds that:older adults in Taiwan tend to experience close ties to family members and high rates of adult child coresidenceboth child's and parent's education have an impact on the existence of physical limitations of the child's education is more importan

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