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  Case Studies of Two Women's Health Projects in Bolivia

  Family Health International, 1996

  Profiles two programs in Bolivia: La Casa de la Mujer in Santa Cruz and the Kumar Warmi (Health Woman) clinic operated by the Centro de Informacion y Desarrollo de la Mujer (CIDEM) in El Alto. Both programs involve women in the design and delivery of health care, and both offer health care as one of an array of services designed to improve women's quality of life.
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  Case Study of the Women's Center of Jamaica Foundation, Program for Adolescent Mothers

  Family Health International, 1996

  Addresses the serious socioeconomic and health consequences of adolescent pregnancy, the Women's Center of Jamaica Foundation offers the Program for Adolescent Mothers.
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  Immunization: Going the extra mile

  The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998

  Immunization is the greatest public health success story in history. Between 1980 and 1990, a massive effort raised coverage rates world wide from 5 per cent to 80 per cent. But just as a new generation of vaccines is about to come on the market -- capable of saving millions more children's lives each year, but at much greater cost -- the momentum to sustain immunization is faltering.
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  Birth registration: civil rights and league tables

  The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998

  A birth certificate is a child's proof of identity and represents the first acknowledgement of his or her significance to the country. Proof of birth is needed for a number of services, and it offers a degree of legal protection. But too few developing nations take birth registration seriously, and rates vary widely within and between countries.
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  Children and Youth [as refugees]

  Forced Migration Review, 1997

  This document contains a collection of articles relating to children and young people in situaions of conflict and migration.
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  Child mortality and public spending on health : how much does money matter?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Roughly 95 percent of cross-national variation in child or infant mortality can be explained by a country's per capita income, the distribution of income, the extent of women's education, the level of ethnic fragmentation, and the predominant religion. Public spending on health has relatively little impact.
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  Gender disparity in South Asia : comparisons betwen and within countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  While gender disparities in health and education outcomes are higher on average in South Asian than in other countries, the large within country differences in gender disparity, between Indian states or Pakistani provinces, demand more local explanations.
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  Tackling health transition in China

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  After three decades of great improvements in China's health status, health gains have eroded recently. The three main causes of this have been changes in government financing of the health sector, the shift to a more market-oriented economy, and a shift toward more noncommunicable diseases and injuries, the prevention of which has not been a traditional part of China's public health programs.
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  Dualistic sector choice and female labour supply : evidence from formal and informal sectors in Cameroon

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997

  In developing countries, labour supply and activity choices are distorted by the existence of labour market imperfections restricting the entry in the activity sectors or rationing the worked hours. The presence of decreasing returns to labour in the informal sector is another specific characteristic of labour market dualism in LDCs.
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  Rwanda: the hidden violence

  Amnesty International, 1998

  Report provides an overview of some of the grave human rights abuses carried out in Rwanda from December 1997 to May 1998, with a particular focus on the patterns of "disappearances", extrajudicial executions by members of the Rwandese security forces - particularly by RPA soldiers - and deliberate and arbitrary killings by armed opposition groups.Between December 1997 and May 1998, hundreds

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