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  Measuring health inequality among children in developing countries: does the choice of the indicator of economic status matter?

  BioMed Central, 2003

  This study, published by BioMed Central, compares the impact of four different wealth indices on the measurement of health inequality among children in developing countries. The study uses the World Bank Asset Index and three other indices, all based on household assets, to analyse data from Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  ICTs for disadvantaged children and youths: lessons from Brazil and Ecuador

  World Bank, 2002

  This brief paper looks at some of the issues emerging in reaching children and youth in poor neighbourhoods with training in information and communication technologies (ICTs). These children and youth are unlikely to have access to computers at school or at home and their access to sources of information and knowledge of any kind is severely restricted.
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  From social assistance to social development: targeted education subsidies in developing countries

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2003

  A joint project of the Center for Global Development and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), this book compiles published and unpublished material on existing conditioned transfer for education (CTE) programs and evaluates their ability to advance poverty reduction and education goals.
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  Cruel confinement: abuses against detained children in Northern Brazil

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report is the findings of research into the conditions in 17 juvenile detention centres in northern Brazil.The report found that children in northern Brazil are routinely subjected to beatings by police and detained in centres that fail to safeguard their basic human rights. Once placed in juvenile detention centres, children may suffer further violence from other youths.
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  Gender dimensions of child labour and street children in Brazil

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper examines various dimensions of child labour and the situation of street children in Brazil, including participation, intensity, and type of activities; the relationship between child labor, education and future earnings; and the risks of child labor to health and well being.
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  Social mobility in Latin America

  Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas, Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia, 2000

  This paper proposes a new measure of social mobility, It is based on schooling gap regressions and uses the Fields decomposition to determine the importance of family background in explaining teenagers' schooling gaps. The method is applied to a sample of 18 Latin American household surveys conducted in the late 1990s.
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  An Asset-Based Approach to the Analysis of Poverty in Latin America [plus case studies]

  Economic Research and Development Policy in Latin America, IADB Research Department, 1999

  Project argues that poverty in Latin America (or at least the ‘excess poverty’ given the level of income in the region), is a problem caused mainly by high inequality. But income inequality in the region is, to a large extent, a reflection of a very skewed distribution of income-earning assets, human capital being the most important.

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