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Searching with a thematic focus on Children and young people, Poverty

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  The Mechanics of Progress in Education: Evidence from Cross-Country Data

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Argues that, so long as educational coverage is not yet universal, a more efficient strategy for educational development is to emphasize continued expansion of coverage rather than a rapid reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio.
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  Costs of Adolescent Childbearing: A Review of Evidence from Chile, Barbados, Guatemala and Mexico

  1998

  The region is plagued by persistent poverty. Does early childbearing perpetuate it? What are the social and economic impacts of adolescent childbearing on mothers and children?
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  Fashion victims: The Asian garment industry and globalisation

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998

  Report looks at the impact of globalisation on the lives of garment workers in Asia. Urban Missionaries, a CAFOD partner in the Philippines, carried out research on the increasing use of temporary contracts in the garment industry. In Sri Lanka, People’s Forum for Development Alternatives (PEFDA) interviewed workers in the Kandy and Kurunegala areas.
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  Global Trade expansion and liberalisation: gender issues and impacts

  BRIDGE, 1998

  A major challenge for development policy aimed at reducing poverty is to enable a more equitable distribution of the gains associated with trade expansion and liberalisation. This requires a better understanding of why some countries and social groups are able to benefit more than others from increasing trade flows.
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  Debt relief for Rwanda: an opportunity for peace-building and reconstruction

  Oxfam, 1999

  Paper is prompted by a growing concern that an unsustainable debt burden is one of the factors which jeopardise reconstruction efforts in Rwanda, and that debt relief could be a crucial element of a wider strategy of international engagement, aimed at encouraging respect for human rights and building peace. The paper argues that existing debt relief mechanisms are not being fully utilised.
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  Asia and the Pacific into the 21st Century: Prospects for Social Development

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1998

  Reviews the progress in social development in the region, and identifies priority issues requiring attention.The study contains two parts. Part One presents an overview of the prospects for social development in Asia and the Pacific region. This part examines the region's overall development context at the global, regional and subregional levels.
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  What can we do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  A rights-based approach to development sets the achievement of human rights as an objective of development. It uses thinking about human rights as the scaffolding of development policy. It invokes the international apparatus of human rights accountability in support of development action.
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  Balancing sweatshop ethics and economics

  University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business, 1999

  The referenced paper is one of the first to attempt to use ethics in order to provide guidelines for the labor activities of international commercial organizations.
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  Are Poverty Reduction and Other 21st Century Social Goals Attainable?

  PovertyNet, World Bank, 1998

  Assesses empirically how attainable are two of the goals set by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee for the year 2015-halving the incidence of poverty and reducing child mortality by two-thirds.Finds that the evidence is mixed. Some countries appear likely to achieve the poverty goal, while others do not.
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  An Asset-Based Approach to the Analysis of Poverty in Latin America [plus case studies]

  Economic Research and Development Policy in Latin America, IADB Research Department, 1999

  Project argues that poverty in Latin America (or at least the ‘excess poverty’ given the level of income in the region), is a problem caused mainly by high inequality. But income inequality in the region is, to a large extent, a reflection of a very skewed distribution of income-earning assets, human capital being the most important.

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