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Searching with a thematic focus on Education, Poverty, Child poverty

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  One in two: children are the key to Africa’s future

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This report makes the case for investment in children as the key to breaking Africa’s cycle of poverty.
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  Tamil Nadu’s midday meal scheme where assumed benefits score over hard data

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper examines Tamil Nadu's noon nutritious meal scheme, India's largest in terms of the number of beneficiaries covered.
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  Gender, education and child labour in Egypt

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This study analyses existing literature on the education and gender aspects of child labour. It explores the linkages between child labour, gender and education and highlights areas for further research and programme/policy interventions.The paper looks at the causes of child labour, its prevalence and distribution in Egypt.
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  Childcare and early childhood development programmes and policies: their relationship to eradicating child poverty

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  Are childcare and early childhood development (ECD) programmes beneficial? This paper questions the types of evidence which support claims that they are, by examining the assumptions made about poverty and the role of ECD in poverty reduction; the robustness of the evidence on ECD; and the contexts in which ECD interventions take place.
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  Child poverty and cash transfers

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper addresses the effectiveness of cash transfers in addressing childhood poverty in developing and transition economies.
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  Reaching the poor: the ‘costs’ of sending children to school: a six country comparative study

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This comparative research study focuses on the main barriers to education for the poorest households in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. Although the study set out primarily to look at the burden of education costs on the poorest households, other barriers to education (e.g. physical access, quality of education, vulnerability/poverty, and health,) are also discussed.
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  Frameworks for understanding the intergenerational transmission of poverty and well-being in developing countries

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2001

  In this paper, a framework for understanding intergenerationally transmitted poverty (IGT poverty) in developing country contexts is developed, focussing on bringing together literature on the intergenerational transfer, extraction, and absence of transfer of different forms of capital: human, social-cultural, social-political, financial/material and environmental/natural.
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  Situation analysis of children in Tanzania

  Tanzania Online, 2001

  This report on the situation of children in Tanzania is informed by a human rights-based perspective on the well-being and development of children.The document states that although there have been signinficant macro-level developments in Tanzania these have yet to be translated into concrete improvements in the lives of children.
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  Reaching out to children in poverty. The integrated child development servicesin Tamil Nadu, (ICDS)

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000

  Programme has been offering a package of of services related to human resource development - health , nutrition, and education - for children, adolescent girls and and women.

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