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  Poverty, AIDS and children’s schooling: a targeting dilemma

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper analyzes the relationship between orphan status, household wealth, and child school enrollment using data collected in the 1990s from 28 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, with one country in Southeast Asia.The findings point to considerable diversity—so much so that generalizations are not possible:while there are some examples of large differenti
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  Intersecting risks: HIV/AIDS and child labour

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This paper analyses the mutually reinforcing factors that, as a result of HIV infection among adults, contribute to child labour and may place child workers at risk of HIV infection themselves.
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  Harnessing globalisation for children

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  This report assesses the impact of the latest wave of globalisation on children.
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  Globalisation and children’s rights: what role for the private sector?

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This report looks at two aspects of economic globalisation and how they impact on children's rights: foreign private sector investment and the privatisation of basic services.The two major concerns of the authors are that:the investment liberalisation agreements of the WTO are targeting the removal of government entry criteria for foreign investment that ensure such investment benefits
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  School subsidies for the poor: evaluating the Mexican Progresa poverty program

  Yale University Library, 2001

  This paper argues that subsidising schooling among the rural poor could potentially reduce entrenched and intergenerational transmission of poverty if considered as a economically and geographically targeted policy.Based on an evaluation of the Progresa Program, which targets the geographically and economically (at the household level) poor in relatively immobile, rural villages of Central and
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  The impact of adult mortality on primary school enrollment in northwestern Tanzania

  Africa Region Human Development Department, World Bank, 2002

  The goal of this study is to measure the impact of adult deaths and orphan status on household decisions to enroll children in primary school.
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  Child labor and poverty transmission: no room for dreams

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2001

  It is widely believed that poverty is the main reason for child labour. Recent studies have focused on the impact of poverty on child labour. It is often assumed that parents send their children to work only if they are poverty stricken.
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  The New Partnership for Africa's Development: are African children the new human capital for trade and development?

  Save the Children Fund, Canada, 2002

  Designers of the New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) state that the initiative's success will depend upon its ownership by African people.
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  How effective is the British government's attempts to reduce child poverty?

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000

  Although the new Labour Government in Britain has made the reduction of child poverty one of its central objectives, Britain still has one of the most severe problems of child poverty among industrialised nations. This paper describes the specific initiatives involved in Labour’s approach and weighs them up in terms of their potential impact.
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  Finance development: invest in children

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  This UNICEF report looks at the financial investments needed to free children from poverty and meet targets set under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The report focuses on the investments needed by governments and international organisations in health, education, and water and sanitation to secure the well-being of children.

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