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    Thailand Social Monitor

    World Bank Office, Thailand, 1999
    Regular report on the social effects of the crisis, eash issue profiling a specific issue.These have includedSocial capital: what should be the role of family and community in providing social safety net services to Thais in need? What kind of social protection system should Thailand build in preparation for future downturns or other economic shocks.
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    Inter-temporal Changes in Welfare: Preliminary Results from Nine African Countries

    Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 1999
    Looks at changes in living standards over time using the comparable Demographic Health Surveys.
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    The impact of adult deaths on children's health in northwestern Tanzania

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    The AIDS epidemic is dramatically increasing mortality of adults in many Sub-Saharan African countries, with potentially severe consequences for surviving family members.
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    Engendering development

    Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
    Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.
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    Reaching out to children in poverty. The integrated child development servicesin Tamil Nadu, (ICDS)

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Programme has been offering a package of of services related to human resource development - health , nutrition, and education - for children, adolescent girls and and women.
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    A league table of child poverty in rich nations

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000
    By comparing data from different countries, the new research asks what can be learned about the causes of child poverty and examines the policies that have contributed to the success of lower rates in some countries.
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    African Journals Online (AJOL)

    International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, 1999
    The International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) launched AJOL in 1998 with only 14 journals. By January 2004 it had over 175 African journals covering most subject areas. Journals included in AJOL are scholarly in content with peer reviewed articles, and publish a mixture of pure and applied research as well as review papers.
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    Attacking Poverty: World Development Report 2000/2001

    World Development Report, World Bank, 2000
    The report builds on the view that poverty means not only low incomes and low consumption but also lack of education and poor nutrition and health.
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    AIDS, poverty reduction and debt relief: a toolkit for mainstreaming HIV/AIDS programmes into development instruments

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    Argues that the potential benefits of giving HIV/AIDS a prominent place in PRSPs and HIPC agreements are substantial. They include greater political attention to and increased domestic funding for the national HIV/AIDS programme,as well as a focus on achieving results in implementing a national HIV/AIDS programme.
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    Dare to lead: public health and company wealth

    Oxfam, 2001
    This is the first in a series of briefing papers analysing the human development impact of transnational corporations (TNCs).

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