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  Basic service provision for the urban poor: the experience of development workshop in Angola

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2002

  This paper describes water and sanitation programmes that have been developed in Angola over a 15 year period, designed with community organisations, local government, and the official water and sanitation agencies.
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  Impacts of Community Health Insurance Schemes on Health Care Provision in Rural Tanzania

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2004

  This study examines community health funds (CHF) in Tanzania to evaluate the role of community health funds in lowering the barriers to access health care. The authors found that protection by the community schemes drastically increases participants’ demand for health care.
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  State of world population 2004: the Cairo Consensus at ten: population, reproductive health and the global effort to end poverty

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This report from UNFPA focuses on world population, reproductive health and poverty ten years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action was agreed in Cairo. The report finds that many developing countries have made substantial progress in implementing the ICPD’s recommendations.
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  Longevity in Russia’s regions: do poverty and low public health spending kill?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper examines the impact of changes in poverty and public health spending on inter-temporal variations in longevity using a unique regional-level dataset that covers 77 regions of Russia over the period 1994-2000. The dynamic panel data model is used as a tool for the empirical analysis. The model is estimated using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel data estimator.
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  Childhood poverty in Rajasthan: a review of literature

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper reviews the literature on childhood poverty in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Designed to inform future primary research in the state, it examines the effects of poverty on children, analyses the relationship between livelihoods and childhood poverty and wellbeing, and identifies some of the mechanisms by which poverty is transferred across generations.
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  Have gun give food: agriculture, nutrition, and civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa

  WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004

  This working paper, presented at the UNU-WIDER Conference on “Making Peace Work”, considers whether nutritional and agricultural crises may contribute to triggering civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa.From a statistical analysis of the relationship between nutritional and agricultural variables and the outbreak of civil war, the authors find that:protein and calorie supply are statistically
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  Inequalities in purchase of mosquito nets and willingness to pay for insecticide-treated nets in Nigeria: challenges for malaria control interventions

  Malaria Journal, BioMed Central, 2004

  This article, published in Malaria Journal by BioMed Central, reports on a study into patterns of ownership and purchase of insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) in Nigeria. It aims to provide new evidence about the demand for ITNs in Nigeria, which are currently sold on a user fees basis.
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  The agriculture, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS connections in developing countries

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This essay, invited by USAID, explores the connections between rural poverty, undernutrition, and HIV and AIDS in developing nations and aims to suggest specific cross-sector investment strategies that can be used more effectively to combat the three. It argues that poverty is principally a rural problem, and that undernutrition and HIV and AIDS are closely associated with rural poverty.
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  Effects of land titling on child health and education

  2004

  This paper analyzes the impact of land titling on child health and education in Argentina.
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  Paupers and princelings: youth attitudes toward gangs, violence, rape, drugs, and theft

  Gender and Development for Cambodia, 2003

  The report is the result of a study on youth gang culture and youth attitudes that was designed, implemented and undertaken by young people.The report reviews three phases of research:an analysis of the Phnom Penh local newspapers' reporting of youth gang related activity a quantitative study into the attitudes of 580 young people in Phnom Penh towards drugs, violence, rape, theft a

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