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Searching with a thematic focus on Children and young people in Brazil

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  Dynamics of child labor: labor force entry and exit in urban Brazil

  World Bank, 2005

  Despite extensive research and policy discussion on child labour, relatively little is known about its dynamism. Common assumptions regarding the static nature of child labour are challenged in this report, which examines the prevalence of intermittent employment amongst young people in metropolitan Brazil over a twenty year period.
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  How does working as a child affect wage, income and poverty as an adult?

  World Bank, 2005

  This study assesses the future poverty impact of child labour. Drawing on empircal evidence from Brazil, the report examines the trends and tradeoffs between education and child labour.
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  The inter-generational persistence of child labor

  World Bank, 2005

  This study explores whether using child labour to avoid poverty can cause it to persist through generations of families, using data from household surveys.
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  Neither war nor peace

  Children and youth in Organised Armed Violence, 2005

  This study identifies a number of regions affected by children and youth in organised armed violence (COAV), exploring causes and trends of the problem as well as suggesting policy oriented guidelines for policy makers within the international forum for the implementation of practical steps to treat COAV.
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  Impact of working time on children’s health

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2004

  This working paper examines the relationship between the intensity of children’s work in terms of weekly working hours and children’s health outcomes. It also includes an analysis of the sector of work.
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  Social factors associated with child mental health problems in Brazil: cross sectional survey

  British Medical Journal, 2001

  This article from the British Medical Journal reports on a survey in Brazil which examined the association between child mental health problems and social factors, including poverty, family violence and parental mental illness.
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  Local development, productive networks and training: alternative approaches to training and work for young people

  Inter-American Research and Documentation Centre on Vocational Training (ILO), 2004

  This paper explores new local development approaches as opportunities for improvement in training and youth employment policies. The approaches described and the experiences outlined in the paper open up areas for reflection for the whole field of vocational training, particularly the idea of restoring training to an outstanding role in relation to economic and social development.
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  Empowering women and girls: challenges and strategies in gender equality

  World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2005

  This paper presents a collection of eight articles and case studies discussing the challenges, achievements and gaps in the empowerment of women and girls.
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  Opening minds, opening up opportunities: children’s participation in action for working children

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This report is the outcome of research on participation and working children in Bangladesh, Brazil, Guatemala and Honduras, India and Senegal.Working children’s participation involves a wide range of activities, such as: consultation with working children through participatory research on their working lives and asking them about the types of service interventions they feel they would gain from
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  The impact of cash transfers on child labor and school attendance in Brazil

  Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade, Brazil, 2003

  Brazil’s Bolsa Escola schemes involve paying cash grants to poor parents on the condition that their children attend school.

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