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  Challenging masculine stereotypes: focus on Brazil

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Much research and thinking on adolescent boys focuses on the negative aspects of their behaviour such as violence, delinquency, callous attitudes towards young women and unsafe practices. What can we learn from research on the differences of socialisation of young men with more gender equitable attitudes and behaviour?
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  Fed up? Differences in malnutrition between boys and girls in India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In a culture where male offspring are valued more highly, are girls given less to eat than boys?  If a young mother lives with her husband’s family are her children more likely to be underfed?  The University of North Carolina, together with the University of Southampton looked at levels of malnutrition in young children growing up in India.  The study found that there were no differences in weigh
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  Gender inequality and poverty: trends, linkages, analysis and policy implications

  BRIDGE, 1997

  This report contains an overview of gender-poverty linkages across different sectors of development cooperation.
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  Women’s political participation in SADC

  International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2001

  This paper examines the degree of representation of women in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and addresses the barriers to women’s participation.
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  Understanding the links: globalization, health sector reform, gender and reproductive health

  Ford Foundation, 2003

  The paper considers the relevance of globalisation for women’s reproductive health and rights in the context of health sector programs and provides a gender analysis of sector-wide programs (SWAPs) and sector reforms examining how reproductive health is defined in sector-wide programs.
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  Child malnutrition in Ethiopia: can maternal knowledge augment the role of income?

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper reports on a study that explores the complementary role of nutritional knowledge using mothers' capability to correctly assess their children's nutritional status as a proxy for a community's nutritional knowledge.The study focuses on Ethiopia, a country which registers one of the highest child malnutrition rates in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Achieving urban food and nutrition security in the developing world

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  This edition of 2020 Focus broadly addresses the issue of urban food insecurity and malnutrition.It offers insights into the urgency of the situation and some of the main policy issues.
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  Women and children getting by in urban Accra

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper reports on efforts by the Accra Urban Food and Nutrition Study (AUFNS) to help to illuminate the essence of urban poverty, the limiting factors on urban livelihoods, and the particular effect of women's education, work and childcare on child nutritional status in the city.Findings:the rise of urban poverty implies that policymakers must broaden their focus beyond the more tra
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  Jessore and Tongi: urban livelihoods in the slums

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This profile reports on surveys conducted by IFPRI and CARE in an examination of urban poverty in different settings in Bangladesh.
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  Trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation: mapping the situation and existing organisations working in Belarus, Russia, the Baltic and Nordic States

  Northvegr Félag, 1998

  The initial aim of the inquiry was to conduct an inventory study on NGOs, research and government institutions in Nordic and Baltic countries, Russia and Belarus working on prostitution and against trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation.Three questionnaires were disseminated, directed at NGOs, government and research institutions.

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