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    Consumption, health, gender and poverty

    World Bank, 2003
    Standard methods of poverty measurement assume that an individual is poor if he or she lives in a family whose income or consumption lies below an appropriate poverty line. Such methods can provide only limited insight into male and female poverty separately.
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    Working women in an urban setting: traders, vendors, and food security in Accra

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999
    Despite lower incomes and additional demands on their time as housewives and mothers, female-headed households, petty traders, and street food vendors have the largest percentage of food secure households.
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    Quantitative techniques for health equity analysis: technical notes

    PovertyNet, World Bank, 2003
    Guidelines , with worked examples, on issues that arise in the quantitative analysis of health equity.They outline issues that arise in the measurement of key variables, including health outcomes and living standards.
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    Measuring child poverty and health: a new international study

    Young Lives, 2002
    This working paper introduces the research plan of an international cohort study on child poverty and health.The study will follow up children born into poverty (plus a small number of non-poor for comparative purposes) in Ethiopia, Vietnam, Peru, and the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.
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    More calories or more diversity?: an econometric evaluation of the impact of the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO transfer programs on food security in rural Mexico

    Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2002
    This paper examines the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO cash transfer programs in Mexico and evaluates their impact on household food security and nutrition.
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    Inequities among the very poor: health care for children in rural southern Tanzania

    The Lancet, 2003
    Sub-Saharan Africa has the poorest overall health indicators of any region of the world. Its estimated under-5-year mortality rate of 173 per 1000 live births is almost twice that of south Asia, the second-highest mortality region, and nearly 30 times higher than the rate in developed countries. Furthermore, child mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa seem to be increasing.
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    Public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been first implemented through sector-wide approaches (SWAps), particularly in health and education.
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    Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
    Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access.It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, and the Philippines.
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    Malaria and poverty: opportunities to address malaria through debt relief and poverty reduction strategies

    Malaria Consortium, 2001
    This background paper, produced by the Malaria Consortium, investigates how Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) can support country plans to Roll Back Malaria (RBM). It makes particular reference to case studies in three countries at different stages in the preparation of PRSPs: Cameroon, Tanzania and Uganda.
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    Building blocks: Africa-wide briefing notes

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003
    These briefing notes for working with children are organised into an overview and five sections:EducationHealth and nutritionPsychosocial supportSocial inclusionEconomic strengtheningEach briefing note provides issues and principles for guiding strategy, while drawing on best practice from programme experience.

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