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  Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

  World Bank, 2003

  This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  Health, shocks and poverty persistence

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  This paper, published by World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), reviews the evidence on the impact of droughts and other serious “shocks” (transitory events which worsen the economic situation of a household) on child and adult health, focusing particularly on Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
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  The state of the World's children 2004

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2003

  The 2004 UNICEF report on the state of the world’s children focuses on girls’ education, and its relationship to all other development goals and the promise of education for all. The report outlines myriad ways in which educating girls benefits individuals and society, and advances a country’s development agenda.
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  The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2002

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2003

  This fourth edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) provides the latest estimates of the number of chronically hungry people in the world and reports on global and national efforts to reach the goal set by the World Food Summit (WFS) in 1996 to reduce that number to half the level reported at the time of the Summit by the year 2015.The report is divided into four main sectio
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  Who would gain most from efforts to reach the Millenium Development goals for health?: an inquiry into the possibility of progress that fails to reach the poor

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper in an inquiry into the possibility of progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets for health that does not significantly benefit the disadvantaged people whom the MDGs are intended to serve.The possibility arises because the MDGs health targets, unlike most other prominent MDGs targets, are stated in terms of improvements in social averages rather than in terms of
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  Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper explores the long-term consequences of shocks on children’s health and education using longitudinal data from rural Zimbabwe.
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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Andhra Pradesh, India

  Young Lives, 2003

  Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.
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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Peru

  Young Lives, 2003

  Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.
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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Ethiopia

  Young Lives, 2003

  Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.
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  Risk-sharing networks and insurance against illness

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002

  This paper conducts risk-sharing tests using detailed data on all insurance networks within a village in Tanzania; networks are not clustered but largely overlapping.

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