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    My rights, my voice: annual progress report 2013

    Oxfam, 2014
    My Rights, My Voice (MRMV) engages marginalized children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries. The 2013 Annual Progress Report provides an overview of the second year of this innovative three year programme and of the MRMV Global Programme Framework.
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    The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014

    UN, 2014
    Fourteen years ago, the Millennium Declaration articulated a bold vision and established concrete targets for improving the existence of many and for saving the lives of those threatened by disease and hunger. There has been important progress across all goals, with some targets already having been met well ahead of the 2015 deadline.
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    Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country: the case of Turkey

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey.
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    Africa rising: harnessing the demographic dividend

    International Monetary Fund, 2014
    Africa will account for 80 percent of the projected 4 billion increase in the global population by 2100. The accompanying increase in its working age population creates a window of opportunity, which if properly harnessed, can translate into higher growth and yield a demographic dividend.
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    Poverty and social impact analysis of stipend program for secondary school girls of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012
    This study was initiated to carry out poverty and social impact analysis of the project titled: Stipend Program for Secondary School Girls of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The study mainly has the following key objectives to deal with:
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    Report on the state of food insecurity in urban India

    MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2010
    A review of the global context in respect of food security shows that the slow growth rate of food production has led to a decline in per capita output of grain between the 1970s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, due in most part to the inability/unwillingness of governments to raise and spend required resources by way of public investment on rural and agricultural development.
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    An exploratory study on large-scale feeding programmes and the possibility of linkage with small and marginal farmers

    MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2013
    India is the seventh largest country geographically, second most populated and the twelfth largest economy in the world. The economy of India is diverse, with a number of major sectors including manufacturing industries, agriculture, textiles, handicrafts and services. Agriculture is a major component of the Indian economy.
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    Alif Ailaan Pakistan district education rankings 2013

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    The Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2013 is an in-depth assessment of the state of education in the country. This study, conducted in association with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), brings together a range of key education indicators to develop a system of ranking the quality of schooling in every district, region, agency and territory.
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    The school feeding programme in India

    MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2011
    Across the world, school feeding programmes (SFP) have been seen both as a social safety net for vulnerable sections of the population and as an educational intervention aimed at ensuring that children go to school and that their learning is improved by elimination of hunger in the class room.
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    Causes of primary school drop out among rural girls in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2011
    The high rate of drop outs in Pakistan is a cause for concern and it means that social and public policies have to be realigned to tackle this important issue. Although there are many reasons for children dropping out of school as given in various studies on the subject, this paper tries to explore the reasons from the perspective of girls’ parents, teachers and students.

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