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  State of World Population Report 1998: the new generations

  United Nations Population Fund, 1998

  The momentum of global population growth is slowing. Thanks to the efforts ofthe past 30 years, growth rates have fallen and will fall further in the coming decades. But because of high fertility in the past, world population is still growing by over 80 million a year.
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  Violence Against Women Information Pack: a priority health issue

  Women's Health and Development Programme, WHO, 1998

  Package focuses on violence in families, rape and sexual assault, violence against women in situations of conflict and displacement, as well as violence against the girl child. The consequences of violence on women's health and the role that public health workers can play in multi-sectoral efforts to end the violence are explored.
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  The Social Consequences of the East Asian Financial Crisis

  Social Crisis in East Asia, World Bank, 1998

  What began as a currency crisis in Thailand has evolved into a social crisis across the region and beyond. Within East Asia it was initially hoped that the crisis would involve a sharp contraction and sharp recovery—a "V"-shaped response to a shock, as occurred in Mexico after the 1994/95 currency crisis.
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  Children and women of Nepal: a situation analysis

  NepalNet, 1996

  Sections from the report covering background environment, child survival initiatives and childcare policies.
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  UNDP Poverty report 1998: Overcoming Human Poverty [summary]

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998

  Report notes that around one third of people in developing countries continue to live in ‘income poverty’ — earning less than $1 per day. But it emphasizes the importance of looking beyond income to address human poverty — the lack of essential human capabilities such as being literate, healthy and adequately nourished.
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  Investing in Early Childhood Development Programs in Latin America: Toward Definition of an Investment Strategy

  Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development, 1993

  Examines the arguments for investment in ECCD with a special focus on Latin America, and on the World Bank. Special attention is given to investment concerns and to the role of pre-primary school educuation
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  State of the World's Children 1998

  United Nations Children's Fund, 1998

  Focuses on malnutrition. Statistical tables are inlcuded (also in Excel format)
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  The New 'Knowers' of West Africa. Muslims, Education and Social Change. A commentated bibliography.

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Bibliography presents summaries of and comments on eight different texts, each providing important contributions to the subject of Muslims, education and social change in West Africa.
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  Children as Insurance

  Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998

  Paper presents a dynamic model of fertility decisions in which children serve as an incomplete insurance good. The model incorporates uncertainty about future income and the survival of children as well as a discrete representation of the number of children.
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  Women's Voices, Women's Lives: The Impact Of Family Planning, A Synthesis of Findings from the Women's Studies Project

  Family Health International, 1998

  The studies examined how women's family planning experiences -- their contraceptive use and non-use, their pregnancies and childbearing, and their experiences with family planning and reproductive health programs -- affected other aspects of their lives, including their roles as individuals, as family members and as participants in the larger community.

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