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  Empty desks, empty futures: The curse of classroom gender gaps

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  It is almost a decade since the governments of the world, meeting at Jomtien in Thailand, pledged a commitment to achieving basic education for all, with special emphasis on improving access to primary schools and closing the gender gap.
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  Lost in space: Locating the chronically poor

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  People living in certain areas are often vulnerable to similar risks, increasing their chance of becoming chronically poor. At the same time, in some poor areas not everyone is poor, and not everyone who is poor will remain so for long. Where do ‘pockets of poverty’ exist and why? Under what conditions can they become ‘poverty traps’?
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  Behaving badly? Young men and sexual health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can young men change their attitudes to sex and sexual health? What methods can be used to challenge their views? Researchers from the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and Southampton University considered ways of improving the sexual health of young men in developing countries.
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  Simply effective - magnesium sulphate reduces the risk of eclampsia in pregnancy

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia may kill more than 50 000 pregnant women each year, mostly in developing regions. A study in 33 countries, co-ordinated by the Oxford Institute of Health Sciences, shows that magnesium sulphate reduces the risk of eclampsia and maternal death. Policy-makers should improve the availability of this cheap drug in developing countries, the researchers conclude.
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  Gender equality in sector wide approaches: a reference guide

  OECD Development Centre, 2002

  This guide presents a series of case studies examining the experience of sector wide programs in education, health and agriculture.It offers advice on how to ensure that a sector wide approach:contributes to overall sustainability and effectivenessis fully responsive to the needs and interests of both women and men and helps to promote gender equalityThe case studies identif
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  The body [chapter in ‘Voices of the poor: crying out for change’]

  World Bank, 2000

  While it is recognised that poverty and poor health are closely linked, it is rare that the poor have the opportunity to voice their own experiences with respect to health issues. Poor people from across the world described their own health experiences in the World Bank's 'Voices of the Poor', a multi-country study of poor people's experiences of poverty.
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  Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access.It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, and the Philippines.
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  Prevention of coronary heart disease in south Asia

  The Lancet, 2002

  It is increasingly recognised that cardiovascular diseases are a major health problem in developing countries. However, tertiary health care for such diseases is expensive and frequently unavailable in developing countries.
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  Rice trade liberalisation and poverty

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper explores the important link between rice trade liberalisation and poverty, seeking specifically to respond to two questions: What would be the effect of freer trade in rice on trade flow patterns? How will rice trade liberalisation and consequent rice price equalisation across countries influence the prevalence of poverty in the poorer economies?
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  Distance education for basic education in the E9 countries

  2002

  This paper explores the successes or otherwise of the use of distance education to increase levels of basic education in the E-9 countries which share similar issues in terms of high population and relatively low levels of basic education completion.The document details the ways in which countries have used distance education:it has occasionally been used either as an alternative to fo

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