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  Children having children: state of the world’s mothers 2004

  Save the Children Fund, USA, 2004

  This report, published by Save the Children, focuses on girls who become mothers while still children themselves, highlighting the particular health risks and challenges which they, and their children, face. It includes the first ever Early Motherhood Risk Ranking which analyses data on child motherhood from 50 countries.
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  Children and young people participating in PRSP processes: lessons from Save the Children's experience

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This paper summarises from Save the Children UK's experience in facilitating children and young people’s participation in PRSP processes, highlighting in particular the experiences of Vietnam and Honduras, and drawing on insights from Lesotho, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the work of a Guyanese NGO.
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  Poverty and children: lessons of the 90s for least developed countries

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2001

  This report states that children in least developed Countries (LDCs) remain among the most vulnerable in the world. Indicators confirm that they face serious disadvantages in the realm of economic and social development.
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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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  Africa’s orphaned generations

  UNICEF HIV/AIDS, 2003

  This report presents information and analysis on the situation of children in Sub-Saharan Africa orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.Findings include:in 1990, fewer than 1 million Sub-Saharan African children under the age of 15 had lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDSat the end of 2001, 11 million in this age group were orphans because of HIV/AIDS, nearly 80% of the world totalby
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  Is child labour in rural economies caused by poverty?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Whilst it is children working in carpet, clothing and sports equipment industries that grab the headlines, the majority of working children actually labour on farms operated by their own families. What explains the apparent paradox that children in households with land are often more likely to be in work and less likely to be in school than kids from families without land?
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  Working with street children: exploring ways for ADB assistance

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2003

  This paper examines developmental approaches as a primary goal for assisting street children.
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  The economic and social processes influencing the level and nature of chronic poverty in urban areas

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper reviews the economic, political and social processes influencing the nature, extent and depth of poverty in urban areas of the South.
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  Decomposition of household expenditure and child welfare in rural Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003

  This paper discusses household expenditure and child welfare in rural Ethiopia.
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  Lifting the resource curse: extractive industry, children and governance

  Save the Children Fund, 2003

  This report explores the reasons behind the link between mineral wealth and child poverty in countries such as Azerbaijan, Colombia, Nigeria, Sudan and Venezuela.

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