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  The reach of the South African child support grant: evidence from KwaZulu-Natal

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This article examines changes in social welfare policies in South Africa after Apartheid. The authors examine the government’s new Child Support Grant programme using data collected at a demographic surveillance site in KwaZulu-Natal to examine the effects of such policy changes.
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  Child allowances and allocative decisions in Romanian households

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2003

  This paper examines the phenomenon of government subsidies for children, and explores whether there is an "intra-household flypaper effect" associated with child allowances in Romania.
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  Global impact report 2003

  Save the Children Fund, 2003

  This report summarises and examines Save the Children UK’s work in 2/2003. It focuses specifically on the impact of Save the Children UK’s work under each of its four key areas of focus, known as the "goals for children".
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  Monitoring for child socio-economic rights 2004

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004

  This Budget Brief provides an overview of IDASA’s study evaluating the South African government’s programming and budgeting in relation to the unqualified socio-economic rights afforded children in the South African Constitution and provides information about the child poverty situation in the country.
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  A fair share of welfare: public spending on children in England

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This report evaluates the amount the British government spends on children, particularly poor children, on major public services: education, health, social care, housing, and also social security.
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  Linking economic policy to childhood poverty: a review of the evidence on growth, trade reform and macroeconomic policy

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper reviews the evidence concerning the impact of key macroeconomic and structural policies on poverty reduction in general and on children's wellbeing in particular.
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  Childcare and early childhood development programmes and policies: their relationship to eradicating child poverty

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  Are childcare and early childhood development (ECD) programmes beneficial? This paper questions the types of evidence which support claims that they are, by examining the assumptions made about poverty and the role of ECD in poverty reduction; the robustness of the evidence on ECD; and the contexts in which ECD interventions take place.
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  Stolen children: abduction and recruitment in northern Uganda

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report discusses the current situation in Uganda in relation to child abduction and recruitment into warfare.
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  Helping children outgrow war

  US Agency for International Development, 2002

  This guidebook offers numerous examples of successful interventions in postconflict settings.
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  Tackling childhood poverty in Central and East Asia: donor approaches in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2003

  This report examines how donors approach poverty among children and young people in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia.

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