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  Early years study: reversing the real brain drain

  The Founders' Network, 1999

  New understanding of brain development in the early years and its effects on subsequent learning, behaviour and health for individuals has led a number of governments and other organisations to take steps to provide better circumstances in and outside the home for early child development.
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  Starting points: meeting the needs of our youngest children

  Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1994

  Across the United States of America, children under the age of three and their parents are facing a crisis caused by changing values and the growing economic pressures on families. Policymakers are rarely forced to contend with this reality so the problems of these young children and their parents remain a quiet crisis.
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  From neurons to neighbourhoods: the science of early childhood development

  National Academies Press, 2000

  The science of early childhood development, as it has grown over the past several decades, has been as fragmented as the services, programmes and policies that exist to address the diverse needs of young children and their families.
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  Fear and want: obstacles to human security

  Social Watch, 2004

  Acknowledging that it is impossibe to answer many specific questions on current events, this report aims to make its own contribution to the debate by examining which grassroots organisations around the world are engaged in the frontline of the battle against poverty and discrimination.
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  Water for life: the impact of the privatization of water services on child mortality

  Universidad Torcuato di Tello, Argentina, 2004

  During the 1990s, about 30 per cent of Argentinean municipalities, covering approximately 60 per cent of the population, privatised their water services.
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  Gender and intrahousehold food allocation in southern Ethiopia

  Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Hebrew University, Israel, 2004

  This paper examines the patterns of food allocation within Ethiopian households, with a particular focus on gender differences and the sources of these differences.
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  Malaria: a major cause of child death and poverty in Africa

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2004

  This document, produced by UNICEF and Roll Back Malaria (RBM), reviews the malaria burden in Africa and examines the role for UNICEF in taking forward the RBM initiative. The document focuses particularly on the critical importance of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for malaria control and outlines UNICEF’s approach to increasing the use of ITNs.
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  Children's risk, resilience and coping in extreme situations: background paper to the consultation on children in adversity, Oxford, 9-12 September 2000

  Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2000

  Following the near-universal ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the protection of children exposed to adversity has now become one of the central priorities of childhood interventions internationally.
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  Achieving universal coverage with health interventions

  The Lancet, 2004

  Known cost effective public health interventions are not reaching developing country populations who need them. Programmes to deliver these interventions are too often patchy, low quality and short-lived, and the people not receiving services are disproportionately from among the poor.
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  Coping with paediatric referral: Ugandan parents’ experience

  The Lancet, 2004

  This article, published in The Lancet, reports on a study examining the constraints faced by caretakers in completing referrals of severely ill children to hospital in Uganda. The study found that only 28 per cent of children had completed referral after two weeks, and at an average cost of US$8.85.

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