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  Beyond child labour, affirming rights

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2001

  Child labour is one of the core issues for review during the 2002 UNGASS on children and this document aims to put rights issues at the centre of discussions surrounding child labour.The document also looks at some of the major factors behind the incidence of child labour throughout the world and provides information on UNICEF's approaches to preventing child labour.
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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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  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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  Financial globalisation and child wellbeing

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2001

  Looks at the relationship between financial crises associated with foreign capital flows on the one hand and the wellbeing of children in emerging market countries on the other.The literature on child welfare in crises suggests that the level of employment and labour incomes are the key linkage, because these constitute the major component of the incomes of poor families and affect the division
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  An essay on child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa: a bargaining approach

  Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2000

  This article discusses child labour in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Family-controlled child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa: a survey of research

  Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2000

  The paper presents and analyzes recent research into child labor problems in Africa, mainly made by economists and social anthropologists.
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  The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

  Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000

  This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.
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  Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

  Panos Institute, London, 2001

  This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.
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  Achieving sustainable universal primary education through debt relief: the case of Kenya

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  This study critically reviews the education sector in Kenya and the challenges facing the sector in achieving universal primary schooling.The study argues that the introduction of cost sharing system in Kenya has resulted in high drop out and repetition rates, low transition and completion rates.
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  The HIPC debt relief initiative, Uganda's social sector reforms and outcomes

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  Paper identifies the constraints of Uganda's implementation of social reforms via the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP), and offers a guide for the future course of reforms. To do this, the paper provides an assessment of performance of the social sector programs being implemented.

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