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  Social impact of the economic crisis on vulnerable children in Thailand

  World Bank, 1998

  Aims to assess the key social impacts of the economic crisis in Thailand and its possible implications for children and their families in Thailand and neighbouring countries.Impacts of the economic crisis on Thailand include: unemployment rapidly rose in rural areas.
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  Hitting home: how households cope with the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: a survey of households affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa

  Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2002

  This report summarises the results of a survey of 771 AIDS-affected households in different parts of South Africa.It documents the impoverishing impact of HIV/AIDS on households and the inordinate burden of caring for AIDS-sick family members.
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  Failing women, sustaining poverty: gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

  Christian Aid, 2003

  More than half the poor citizens of heavily indebted developing countries are women.
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  Poverty reduction outcomes in education and health: public expenditure and aid

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper looks at the role of public expenditure programmes in the health and education sectors and their impact on poverty. It argues for a closer donor involvement at the sector level.The evidence reviewed shows that progress towards the MDGs has slowed in some low income countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  A summary report from the Mexico Action Summit

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2003

  Participants at the Mexico Action Summit explored how increased food production to feed the rural poor can be made compatible with natural resource management and biodiversity stewardship.
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  Nutritional considerations in Norwegian development cooperation

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2000

  The purpose of the assignment is to develop a resource document which:explains why the food and nutrition component has a natural place in development cooperation aimed at poverty reduction and human developmentprovides updated information concerning events and operating parameters for such cooperationprovides suggestions for how nutrition may be incorporated into NORAD’s activitie
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  Economic development in Africa: from adjustment to poverty reduction: what is new?

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2002

  This year’s "Economic development in Africa" report reviews the policy content of the poverty reduction programmes in Africa.
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  Geographic patterns of deprivation and health inequities in South Africa: informing public resource allocation strategies

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2000

  This research project explores the potential use of small geographic areas as a unit of analysis for identifying communities with high levels of deprivation or relative disadvantage.
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  The role of livestock in mitigating land degredation, poverty and child malnutrition in mixed farming systems: the case of coffee-growing midlands of Sidama - Ethiopia

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1998

  This study illustrates the role played by livestock in alleviating land degradation, poverty and the resulting child malnutrition in integrated farming systems in Ethiopia.

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