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    Population trends: India

    International Programs Center, Population Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1997
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    Aging Trends: South Africa

    International Programs Center, Population Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1997
    This report summarizes the major demographic aspects affecting the aging of the South African population and highlights several socioeconomic characteristics that affect the wellbeing of older persons.
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    Statistics on arms trade in conventional weapons

    Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1999
    SIPRI data is expressed in two forms. Registers include data on the numbers of major conventional weapons of different kinds transferred between states. Trend indicator values are used to produce a weighted index measuring the volume of transfers of major conventional weapons.
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    Facts and Fiction: Current Nuclear Weapon Capabilities in South Asia

    Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1998
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    Poverty and the ‘Population Problem’

    Global Reproductive Health Forum, 1996
    Addresses three aspects of poverty and the "population problem" from an economic perspective. First, the statistical basis for the oft-cited positive correlation between poverty and household size. Secondly, re-examines the conflicting economic and demographic interpretations of this correlation.
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    Socioeconomic Stratification by Wealth Ranking: Is it Valid?

    Global Reproductive Health Forum, 1997
    This paper validates a Rapid Rural Appraisal wealth ranking technique using standard socioeconomic indicators from a household survey in rural Bangladesh. Key informants stratified 1637 households into three wealth groups according to a number of broad criteria and a questionnaire was subsequently administered to each household.
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    Infant Mortality and Mother's Education in Ondo State, Nigeria

    Global Reproductive Health Forum, 1999
    A bivariate analysis of infant mortality in the 1986/87 Ondo State Demographic and Health Survey data indicates that children of secondary school graduates experienced a higher rate of infant mortality than children of less educated mothers.
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    Global AIDS surveillance report 1997

    WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 1997
    Statistical report and analysis report in the Weekly Epidemiological RecordAn alternative (less raw statistics) presentation of the data is available at: http://www.unaids.org/highband/document/epidemio/report97.html
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    CARE Village Banks Project, Guatemala

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    The Women’s Village Banking (VB) Program of CARE Guatemala provides particularly interesting insights into some of the issues and challenges facing village banking programs around the world. Like many programs started in the 1980's, the CARE VB program was created as an experiment in the increasingly popular field of microenterprise finance.
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    Indonesia's rural finance system: the role of the state and private institutions

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    Study analyses how effectively organizations have performed their role as agents of Indonesia’s economic growth (availability of resources, volume and quality of investments, resource allocation and appropriation).

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