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  World Development Report 2004: making services work for poor people

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2003

  This issue of the WDR focuses on policies for improving the access of poor people to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity.The report focuses on the three ways in which services can be improved:By increasing poor clients’ choice and participation in service delivery, so they can monitor and discipline providers: School vouche
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  Social security priorities and patterns: a global perspective

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the central features of four models of social security. The focus is on the meaning of social security, the coverage provided and the institutions and financing of social security in different contexts.
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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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  Sector wide programmes and poverty reduction

  Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001

  Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper.
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  Implementing a New Indicator of Social Development in Mexico: Literate Life Expectancy (LLE) (Medina / IIASA)

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1999

  For scientists, measuring social development has been a long-lasting objective; for the public, it has been a partially-resolved demand. Social indicators have been used informally for a very long time, particularly in economics, to assess the state of the nation and progress towards national objectives.
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  Local Government and Households in Primary Education in Tanzania: Some lessons for Reform

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The roles of the formal and informal involvement of local governments, local elites, teachers and households in decision making about primary education in selected rural districts are analysed, as are some of the outcomes of this involvement. Lessons for reforms with respect to decentralization, financing and school choice are drawn.
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  Social exclusion and Africa south of the Sahara: A review of the literature

  International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1994

  Review for sub-Saharan Africa, examines the English-language literature and focuses on four important dimensions of exclusion: (i) exclusion from agricultural land; (ii) exclusion from agricultural livelihood; (iii) exclusion from formal and informal employment; (iv) exclusion from organization and representation.Paper is organized in six sections.
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  Engendering development

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.
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  Conflict's children: the human cost of small arms in Kitgum and Kotido, Uganda

  Oxfam, 2001

  Reporting on a field study conducted in several areas and instutions in Kitgum and Kotido (Uganda), this paper presents a literature review, results of informant interviews, and assesses the impact of small arms on education.Conclusions and recommendations:Small arms have played a major role in creating the devastating poverty and misery experienced by the majority of the civilian po
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  The impact of armed conflict on children

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  This document reviews the wide-ranging series of actions taken in response to the recommendations of the 1996 Machel Report. Many of the significant achievements are woven into this text, which constitutes an early summary of a book that will be published in early 2001.

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