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  Decentralization in Chile (Stewart / Ranis / UNDP)

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
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  Equity and growth in developing countries : old and new perspectives on the policy issues

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  There is no intrinsic trade-off between long run aggregate economic growth and overall equity.
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  Family Planning: A Development Success Story

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1994

  This booklet, which was prepared in collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau, is based on the World Bank publication Effective Family Planning Programs.
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  Investing in People: The World Bank in Action

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1996

  Investing in people — through education, health, nutrition, and other aspects of human development — is crucial in the struggle to raise living standards and reduce poverty in the developing world. Helping countries in this vital work is at the heart of what the World Bank does, through its financial and other assistance.
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  ILO Governing Body Document on Child Labour Committee on Employment and Social Policy (GB.264/ESP/1)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999
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  Child labour: targeting the intolerable

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1998

  Drawing on ILO action against child labour, including the experience of the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC at a glance ) and other initiatives, this report chronicles the exploitation and abuse of working children, surveys international and national law and practice, and points the way toward effective practical action to remove children from debt bondage, p
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  Child Labour in commercial agriculture in Africa

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999

  This paper seeks to review briefly the available evidence on the extent and types of child labour in the commercial agriculture sector in the Africa region. Information and data are included from case-studies carried out on the child labour situation in commercial agriculture in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
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  The poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.
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  Guatemalan Survey of Family Health (EGSF)

  RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999

  The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health, known as EGSF from its name in Spanish, was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support and health beliefs in this process.
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  Gender sensitivity of well-being indicators

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997

  In this paper, we assess the gender sensitivity of some conventional indicators of well-being in developing countries as also the relationship between poverty and the gender differential.

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