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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Vietnam

  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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  Health and poverty gender analysis

  BRIDGE, 1998

  This paper examines the various debates on health and poverty and how these have addressed gender issues.
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  Food-based safety nets and related programs

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper discusses the range of food-based transfers that are typically used in social safety net programs.
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  The Impact of Poverty on Health - A Scan of Research Literature

  Canadian Population Health Initiative, 2003

  This paper assesses the status of poverty and health in Canada through various measurments and concepts of Social Economic Status (SES) since February 2002. It discusses the extent of inequality and deprivation with a view to identifying best practice from the given literature. It also sheds light on the distribution of SES and provides international comparisons.
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  World Development Report 2004: making services work for poor people

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2003

  This issue of the WDR focuses on policies for improving the access of poor people to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity.The report focuses on the three ways in which services can be improved:By increasing poor clients’ choice and participation in service delivery, so they can monitor and discipline providers: School vouche
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  Understanding linkages between urban poverty, livelihoods and natural resources

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  How are the conditions in which the urban poor live affected by changes in rural economies? How do policies targeted at rural populations indirectly affect urbanites? Can pro-poor urban policies be developed which take into account the importance of natural resources to the urban poor?
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  How poverty affects the health status and the health care demand behaviour of households? The case of rural Ethiopia

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper, published by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), examines the impact of poverty on the health status of rural households in Ethiopia, and on their use of health services. It also investigates the effects of user fees on chronically poor households. It finds that the poor are more likely to fall ill but less likely to get outside medical help.
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  Associacao Saude Crianca Renascer (ASCR)

  Global Development Network, 2002

  How can the vicious cycle of curing children, only to put them back into the environment that made them ill in the first place, be broken?
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  Dar es Salaam: urban livelihood security assessment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This profile reports on an assessment by IFPRI and CARE of a number of impoverished neighbourhoods in Dar es Salaam towards the ultimate goal of targeting assistance to the poor more efficiently.
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  Ghana: the Accra urban food and nutrition study

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on an IFPRI analysis of urban food and nutrition security in Accra, conducted with the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana and the WHO.The main goal of the research project was to determine how the strategies employed by the urban poor to secure their livelihoods affect households’ food security, the care of children, and their resulting health and nutrit

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