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  Poverty and gender: the limits of microfinance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Credit and savings schemes are hailed as blueprints for tackling poverty but their benefits are exaggerated. They fail to address the way gender effects relations of power and inequality within families. Frequently unsustainable, they seldom manage to cover their running costs.
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  Investigating chronic poverty in West Africa

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  Looks at poverty and chronic poverty dynamics in West Africa. Through participatory assessments of various West Africa countries, the study reveals the multidimensionality of poverty and explains why it is that poverty can persist over extended periods of time.
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  Decomposition of household expenditure and child welfare in rural Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003

  This paper discusses household expenditure and child welfare in rural Ethiopia.
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  Forgotten fighters: child soldiers in Angola

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report highlights the situation of children who fought in the civil war and the absence of programmes addressing their specific needs.
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government sponsored programme in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  Gender and poverty: a life cycle approach to the analysis of the differences in gender outcomes

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines how gender differentials vary across income groups over the life cycle in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).Using the data from the 2001 BiH LSMS, strong gender-poverty interaction is found in the patterns of labour force participation, gender gap in earnings, individuals’ school finances and school attendance.Main findings include:the main source of gender ine
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  Young people make the difference!: peer-influence on reproductive health of young people in Dakar, Senegal

  Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2002

  This paper analyses how young people, boys and girls, aged fifteen to twenty perceive the different sources of information about sexuality, STIs and HIV/AIDS and how this information is processed among young people. The author lets the young people do the talking and describe how they use different sources of information in their daily lives.
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  Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

  Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003

  With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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  One step further: responses to HIV/AIDS

  SIDA Studies, 2002

  This collection of articles produced by UNRISD and SIDA enable different authors to address various issues in relation to HIV/AIDS.
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  Actualising the right to education: participatory civil society-led approaches to educational interventions for girl child labourers in India: the road ahead

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  This paper analyses the role of civil society in advocating for the adoption of the Bill on the Right to Education in India. The author argues that recent successes in civil society mobilisation could form a good basis to implementing the right to education with the active collaboration and participation of the Indian government.

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