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  International longitudinal research on childhood poverty: practical guidelines and lessons learned from Young Lives

  Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention, 2003

  This document provides guidance for developing country governments, NGOs and research professionals interested in research and advocacy work on childhood poverty.
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  Child poverty, child socio-economic rights and Budget 2003 - The ‘right thing’ or a small step in the ‘right direction’?

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2003

  This budget brief assesses the extent to which the 2003 South African Budget addresses widespread child poverty and the delivery of children's socio-economic rights.
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  Voices of the stigmatised: listening to the street children of Tanzania

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  What are the links between HIV, poverty, education and gender inequality? How have structural adjustment and cost-sharing affected vulnerable children in Tanzania? Are policy-makers able to address the serious inequalities and vulnerabilities faced by the growing number of children working the country’s streets?
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  Getting to grips with child poverty – the importance of non-income indicators

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Are we too reliant on northern approaches to measuring income poverty when considering poor children in developing countries? How should we quantify child poverty? Are the current ways of measuring child welfare accurate and appropriate? What alternative child-friendly measures of well-being should be used?
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  Children in least developed countries: forever mired in poverty?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  No fewer than 191 countries have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Why has political rhetoric not been matched by a commitment to mobilise resources and take action to deliver rights promised to children? What policies are needed to help turn the tide in favour of the world’s poorest kids?
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  Measuring the social capital of children

  Young Lives, 2003

  The objectives of this paper are:to highlight why social capital matters to child welfare outcomesto briefly consider some key issues in the measurement of social capitalto consider the limited literature on conceptualising social capital in relation to childrenand to conclude with some directions for measuring the social capital of childrenWhile social capital can be m
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  Income contributions of child work in rural Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002

  This paper demonstrates that the income contribution of child work is a key factor influencing child work and schooling decisions.
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  Trafficking of children: the problem and responses worldwide

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  This paper aims to bring together the major elements of what is known about the problem of child trafficking around the world.
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  Caribbean youth development: issues and policy directions

  World Bank, 2003

  The objectives of this report are threefold.
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  Reaching the poor: the ‘costs’ of sending children to school: a six country comparative study

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This comparative research study focuses on the main barriers to education for the poorest households in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. Although the study set out primarily to look at the burden of education costs on the poorest households, other barriers to education (e.g. physical access, quality of education, vulnerability/poverty, and health,) are also discussed.

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