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    Measuring health inequality among children in developing countries: does the choice of the indicator of economic status matter?

    BioMed Central, 2003
    This study, published by BioMed Central, compares the impact of four different wealth indices on the measurement of health inequality among children in developing countries. The study uses the World Bank Asset Index and three other indices, all based on household assets, to analyse data from Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania and Uganda.
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    Adolescent and youth reproductive health in the Asia and Near East Region: status, issues, policies, and programs

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004
    This paper presents the findings of a series of assessments of adolescent and youth reproductive health conducted by the Policy Project in 13 countries in the Asia and Near East (ANE) region.
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    Trafficking of women and children in Indonesia

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003
    The purpose of this report is to consolidate the information that already exists about trafficking in Indonesia into one comprehensive report and disseminate this information widely.Not only does the report provide a fairly comprehensive overview of the problem, but it also includes a variety of resources to help combat trafficking, including:a review of existing Indonesian legislation
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    The influence of maternal and child health-service utilization on subsequent contraceptive use

    The Commercial Market Strategies project, 2002
    Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys and Service Availability Surveys, this study examines the relationship between maternal and child health (MCH) service utilisation and subsequent contraceptive use in five developing countries: Bolivia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Morocco, and Tanzania.Findings:in Morocco, Guatemala, and Indonesia the analysis suggests that the intensity of M
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    Adolescent and youth reproductive health in Indonesia: status, issues, policies, and programs

    US Agency for International Development, 2003
    Survey of the reproductive health status of adolescents in the country.The report looks at the social context and gender socialization issues that set girls and boys apart in terms of life expectations, educational attainment, job prospects, labor force participation, reproduction, and duties in the household.The report then outlines laws and policies that pertain to ARH and discusses infor
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    The problem of child soldiers: listening to young combatants in East Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    One in four of the world’s estimated 300 000 child soldiers are currently serving in the East Asia and Pacific region. What is the family background of children involved with armed groups? How did they become child soldiers? What are their thoughts about the future? How could demobilisation, vocational training and psycho-social care programmes help them reintegrate?
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    Actual and de facto childlessness in East Java: a preliminary analysis

    Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2002
    The limitations of state provision in developing countries have meant that research on elderly welfare has more or less inevitably focussed on support available via family systems. The short answer to the question “What help exists for poor and frail elderly people?” presupposes a simple solution: their children.
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    The economic crisis and child labour in Indonesia

    International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2000
    The economic crisis has imposed a tremendous burden on households in Indonesia but much of the cost of adjustment among children has been hidden from public scrutiny.This paper reviews the impact of the financial and economic crisis on child workers in Indonesia and discusses government responses to the crisis and policy initiatives which the government, international agencies and NGOs might co
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    Indonesian Family Life Surveys (IFLS)

    RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999
    The Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) is a household and community-facility survey conducted in Indonesia in 1993 by Lembaga Demografi of the University of Indonesia, and RAND. The IFLS was conducted in 13 provinces, encompassing about 83 percent of the Indonesian population and much of its heterogeneity.
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    Family Planning and Women’s Empowerment: Challenges for the Indonesian Family

    Family Health International, 1997
    In Indonesia, the total fertility rate declined from 5.6 children per family in 1967-70 to 2.85 children in 1994. Dramatic increases in contraceptive use, spurred by economic growth and the government of Indonesia's family planning program, are credited for this decline. Indonesia's family planning program promotes smaller families as a means to improve family welfare.

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