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    The Effect of Family Planning on Women's Lives: The Case of The People's Republic of China

    Family Health International, 1998
    Fertility in China has declined dramatically over the last three decades, due in large part to government policy and a strong family planning program. In 1979, China implemented a policy advocating one child per couple, with some exceptions in rural areas, particularly, for couples having daughters only.
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    Gender and public social spending: disaggregating benefit incidence

    Gendernet, World Bank, 1999
    Describes how the gender dimension of public spending on health and education can be captured in part through benefit incidence analysis.It contains two basic messages: gender disaggregations are important in their own right, since they highlight gender differences in benefit incidence which are of policy concernthese gender differences are also important in understanding other matt
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    Impact of the Asia crisis on children: Issues for social safety nets

    Australian Agency for International Development, 1999
    Report is based on a survey carried out in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand on the impact of the Asia crisis on children.
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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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    Education for All: a compact for Africa

    Oxfam, 1999
    Makes a case for increased/refocussed funding for primary education in Africa, for consideration at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in April 2000.
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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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    Basic service for all?: public spending and the social dimensions of poverty

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000
    The report draws on case studies from over 30 developing countries to highlight the human cost of this shortfall in terms of lives lost, children out of school, the millions of children under-nourished and the billions without safe water and sanitation.The report outlines a Ten Point Agenda for Action to bridge the US$80 billion gap, including a call for an international agreement that no more
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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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