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    Adolescent girls and migration in the developing world

    Population Council, USA, 2013
    Migration is transforming our world: by the end of this decade, most developing countries will have more people living in cities than in rural areas. Most migrants are in their early to mid-20s. Substantial numbers of adolescent girls are also on the move. Because of their age and gender, migrant girls are especially vulnerable to risks such as exploitative employment.
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    World Report on Child Labour: Economic vulnerability, social protection and the fight against child labour

    International Labour Organization, 2013
    What can be done to ensure more – and faster – progress in tackling child labour? This report argues that child labour is driven in part by household vulnerabilities associated with poverty, risk and shocks, and that social security is critical to mitigating these vulnerabilities.
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    Programming for nutrition outcomes

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2013
    Chronic undernutrition affects nearly 200 million children in low and middle income countries, with vitamin and mineral deficiencies affecting many more, and there is strong evidence that undernutrition is associated with up to 35% of all child deaths globally.
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    Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India

    Young Lives, 2012
    Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity and leading ultimately to economic loss for the nation as a whole.
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    Putting children at the centre of poverty debates

    2011
    This paper discusses the methodology of Young Lives - a 15-year study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and Peru, following the lives of 3,000 children in each country.  The Young Lives programme is interested in children’s development within the context of economic constraint and disparities, and cumulative risk.
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    Harmful traditional practices and child protection: contested understandings and practices of female child marriage and circumcision in Ethiopia

    Young Lives, 2013
    Focusing on Ethiopia, this paper explores local perspectives on female child marriage and circumcision. Both practices are widespread in Ethiopia and reflect deep-rooted patriarchal and gerontocratic values regulating women’s reproduction and transactions between kin groups at marriage.
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    Perinatal nutrition and immunity to infection

    PubMed Central, 2010
    Epidemiological data provide strong evidence for a relationship between undernutrition and life-threatening infection in infants and children. However, the mechanisms that underlie this relationship are poorly understood. Through foetal life, infancy and childhood, the immune system undergoes a process of functional maturation.
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    Factors affecting prevalence of malnutrition among children under three years of age in Botswana

    African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2006
    This study was a cross-sectional descriptive survey conducted to evaluate the level of malnutrition and the impact of some socio-economic and demographic factors of households on the nutritional status of children under 3years of age in Botswana. 400 households and mothers of children representing 23 health regions of the country participated in the study.
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    Determinants of appropriate child health and nutrition practices among women in rural Gambia

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2010
    This study aimed at exploring the factors determining mothers’ choices of appropriate child health and nutrition practices in the Gambia. Eight focus-group discussions (FGDs) were held with 63 women whose children had been seen at the Keneba MRC Clinic within the 12 months preceding the study. The FGDs were analyzed using a thematic framework.
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    Prevalence and Trends of Stunting Among Pre-school Children, 1990-2020

    World Health Organization, 2010
    The objective of this study was to quantify the prevalence and trends of stunting among children using the WHO growth standards. 576 nationally representative surveys were analysed. Linear mixed-effects modelling was used to estimate rates and numbers of affected children from 1990-2010. In 2010 it is estimated that 171 million children (167 million in developing countries) were stunted.

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