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    Combating trafficking in children and women

    End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, 2001
    This paper reports on an ECPAT project entitled the Trafficking in Women and Children Project.The project consists of interventions involving awareness-raising, advocacy, capacity-building at national and local levels, and direct assistance to communities in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
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    Viet Nam children in prostitution in Hanoi, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho: a rapid assessment

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    This rapid assessment provides some limited insight into the situation of young people involved in prostitution in Viet Nam. The bulk of the information is based on interviews with 122 children, with brothel owners and with pimps (the latter two actors rarely, if ever, studied) in four locations in the North and South sides of the country.
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    Measuring child poverty and health: a new international study

    Young Lives, 2002
    This working paper introduces the research plan of an international cohort study on child poverty and health.The study will follow up children born into poverty (plus a small number of non-poor for comparative purposes) in Ethiopia, Vietnam, Peru, and the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.
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    Global Employment Trends 2002

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    This report estimates that the number of unemployed grew by 20 million since the beginning of 2001 to reach about 180 million at the end of 2002, and that the increase was most severe among women. In addition an increasing number of young people entering the labour market were unable to find jobs.
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    Does globalization increase child labour?: evidence from Vietnam

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2002
    This paper considers the impact of liberalized trade policy on child labour in Vietnam.
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    Combating trafficking [of women] in South-East Asia: a review of policy and programme responses

    International Organization for Migration, 2001
    At least 200-225,000 women and children from South-East Asia are trafficked annually, a figure representing nearly one-third of the global trafficking trade. Of the estimated 45-50,000 women and children estimated to be trafficked into the US each year, 30,000 are believed to come from South-East Asia.
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    Trafficking in Children for Labour Exploitation in the Mekong Sub-region: a Framework for Action

    International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1998
    Reveals trends and issues of child trafficking in the Mekong subregion. Covers: Trends in trafficking routes, numbers and purposes; the push and pull factors; the recruitment process via an organized network; intolerable working conditions and their impact;The need to develop a multi-sectoral responses through a broad alliance of partners.
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    Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in the developing world

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Among the conclusions Wagstaff and Watanabe reach about malnutrition rates among different economic groups in the developing world:Inequalities in malnutrition almost always disfavor the poorIt's not just that the poor have higher rates of malnutrition.
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    Labour market aspects of state enterprise reform in Viet Nam

    OECD Development Centre, 1996
    State-owned enterprise (SOE) restructuring has proceeded more rapidly in Viet Nam than, for example, in China and India. The government tightened the budget constraints facing SOEs virtually simultaneously with price liberalisation.
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    A rough guide to PPAs: an introduction to theory and practice

    Overseas Development Institute, 2001
    This article takes a critical look at participatory poverty assessment (PPA) as a methodology and investigates the use of this methodology in various case-studies.The article:summarises key findings from recent experienceprovides guidance on appraising at the country level whether a PPA might make a useful contribution to improving the effectiveness of poverty reduction policypr

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