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  Gender, HIV/AIDS and rights: a training manual for the media

  Inter Press Service, 2003

  This manual provides training for members of the media reporting on HIV/AIDS. Its introduction argues the importance of gender training for the media because research shows that news is told largely through the eyes, voices and perspectives of men. The media often makes the mistake that gender equals women.
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  Mobilising gender issues: report from the Living for Tomorrow project on youth, gender and HIV/AIDS prevention

  Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research, 2002

  This is an overview report of a three year project that took place in Estonia that aimed to combine gender theory and research with action implementation to approach youth, sexual safety and HIV prevention with a challenging focus on gender. The report describes the process of the project as well as its outcomes and the results of research undertaken to explore young people's attitudes.
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  Challenging gender issues: report on findings from the Living for Tomorrow project about young people´s attitudes to men, women and sex

  Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research, 2001

  This document reports on a three-year project that worked in Estonia from 1998 to 2000. It explored ways that developing a more critical focus on gender could actively mobilise the interest and involvement of young people in sexual safety concerns and HIV prevention awareness.
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  Distance, skill deepening and development: will peripheral countries ever get rich?

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2003

  This paper models the relationship between countries’ distance from global economic activity, endogenous investments in education, and economic development.Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports, reducing the amount of value added left to remunerate domestic factors of production.
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  A socioeconomic analysis of fertility determinants with a count data models: the case of Tunisia

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2002

  This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the determinants of individual fertility in Tunisia, and examines the main socio-economic determinants of the household fertility decision. The study provides an overview of the demographic situation in Tunisia since independence in 1956.
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  Economic policies and human capital

  Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2002

  [Text of this paper is in Arabic]This paper studies the relationship between education, labor market and the returns of the investment in human capital and income distribution.Through the analysis of the current status of human capital, the paper finds that:the average illiteracy rate in Arab countries (38.7%) is high compared to the rate of overall developing countries (27.1)11
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  IT’s hot for Girls!: ICTs as an instrument in advancing girls’ and women’s capabilities in school education in Africa

  WomenWatch, UN, 2002

  The application of ICTs as a tool for effective enhancement of learning, teaching and education management covers the entire spectrum of education from early childhood development, primary, secondary, tertiary, basic education and further education and training.
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  Strategies for introducing new curricula in West Africa

  UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2001

  This report is the outcome of a five-day seminar aimed at meeting the demands and difficulties of teachers in coping with a new curriculum.
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  Fast track or back track?: the education fast track initiative: make or break for the Monterrey Consensus

  ActionAid International, 2003

  At the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings in April 2002, Development and Finance Ministers launched a plan to address the education crisis in the world’s poorest countries, and provide every child with basic education by 2015.
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  Latin American youth in transition: a policy paper on youth unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean

  2002

  This policy analysis focuses on the school-to-work transition as providing the central context in understanding youth unemployment in Latin America.Youth unemployment is not a transitory state to employment, rather it is a very lengthy process where youth move from unemployment, schooling, unpaid unemployment, and low-wage unskilled employment — all of which have low opportunity costs.

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