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  Global monitoring report, 2006:Millennium Development Goals: strengthening mutual accountability, aid,trade, and governance

  World Bank, 2006

  This report comments on global progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on aid, trade and financial dimensions of the process. It notes that, despite commitments to raising aid effectiveness from the G8 and the Paris Declaration, the world is still far from achieving the MDGs - particularly Africa and South Asia.
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  Young Men and the Construction of Masculinity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for HIV/AIDS, Conflict, and Violence

  G. Barker, C. Ricardo / World Bank, 2005

  In the literature on conflict and HIV/AIDS, African men are often presented in simplistic and explicitly negative terms. It is generally taken for granted that those who use weapons are men whilst those who suffer the consequences of conflict are women, and that men always hold power in sexual relationships whilst women are always powerless.
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  Expanding opportunities and building competencies for young people: a new agenda for secondary education

  World Bank, 2005

  The purpose of this report is to set forth policy options for supporting developing countries and transition economies in adapting their secondary education systems to demands arising from the successful expansion of primary education and the socioeconomic challenges presented by globalisation and the knowledge-based economy.The report analyses the key issues facing secondary education in the 2
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  Food aid and food security in the short and long run: country experience from Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

  C. del Ninno, P. A Dorosh, K. Subarao / World Bank, 2005

  This paper analyses the outcomes of food aid and food security in India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Zambia.
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  Going, going, gone: the illegal trade in wildlife in East and Southeast Asia

  World Bank, 2005

  This report aims to stimulate discussion, share knowledge, and contribute to learning from experience regarding the fight against the illegal trade of wildlife. It explores the dynamics of illegal wildlife trade in East and Southeast Asia, including the economic factors influencing the trade.
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  People in transition: reforming education and health care

  N. Barr / World Bank, 1996

  This article, published by the World Bank, examines the education and health care systems of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the former Soviet Union and China, the problems that have arisen during the transition to a market-based economy in these countries, and argues that reforms are needed.
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  Fearing Africa’s young men: the case of Rwanda

  M. Sommers / World Bank, 2006

  This paper sets the case of Rwanda’s male youth within the larger context of Africa’s urbanisation and burgeoning youth population. It investigates the pervasive images of male urban youth as a menace to Africa’s development and its primary source of instability.
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  Repositioning nutrition as central to development: a strategy for large-scale action

  World Bank, 2006

  Malnutrition is a still an extremely serious development issue, with around a third of the developing world’s population - particularly the inhabitants of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia- suffering from micronutrient deficiencies and below optimal weight.
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  Reaching the poor with health, nutrition, and population services: what works, what doesn’t, and why

  D. Gwatkin, A. Wagstaff, A. Yazbeck / World Bank, 2005

  This book, from the Reaching the Poor Program (RPP), provides eleven case studies that document how health, nutrition and population programmes have performed in reaching disadvantaged groups. The studies were commissioned in an effort to find better ways of ensuring that health, nutrition and population programmes benefit those that need them most.
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  A guide to competitive vouchers in health

  World Bank, 2005

  This World Bank guide examines voucher schemes as a means of subsidising healthcare goods and services for the poor. It focuses on schemes that involve some form of competition between service providers, which provide the recipient with choices and which involve the private sector.

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