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  Grandmothers and granddaughters: old age pension and intra-household allocation in South Africa

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2000

  This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded for the black population.
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  Does microfinance really help the poor?: new evidence from flagship programs in Bangladesh

  MacArthur Network, Princeton University, 1998

  This paper draws on a new cross-sectional survey of nearly 1800 households, some of which are served by the Grameen Bank and two similar programs, and some of which have no access to programs.Households that are eligible to borrow and have access to the programs do not have notably higher consumption levels than control households, and, for the most part, their children are no more likely to be
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  Intrahousehold allocation and gender relations: new empirical evidence

  Gendernet, World Bank, 1999

  Paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household.In contrast to the unitary model, the collective model posits that individuals within households have different preferences and do not pool their income.
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  Consumption expenditure and female poverty: a review of the evidence

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  This paper sets out to answer two questionsare poor females at a significant disadvantage compared to males and non-poor females in terms of welfare indicators of such as health, education, nutrition, labor force participation, and time use?
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  Effects of child care prices on women's labor force participation in Russia

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  The paper models household demand for child care, mothers' labour force participation and working hours, in Russia.
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  Uprooting the rural poor in Rwanda

  Human Rights Watch, 2001

  Reports on the human rights violations as a result of the Rwandan governments implementation of the National Habitat Policy.
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  Incentives help delay marriage among Bangladeshi girls

  Population Council, USA, 2000

  In order to address the issue of education is Bangladesh being affordable only for the wealthy. This paper comments on incentive programmes by the government and assesses the effects of these programmes on the lives of boys and girls. One scheme provides wheat to the parents of poor primary-school girls and boys, the other offers scholarship money to female secondary- school students.
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  Human Development Report 2001: making new technologies work for human development

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2001

  This 2001 UNDP Human Development Report looks specifically at how new technologies will affect developing countries and poor people. Many people fear that these technologies may be of little use to the developing world - or that they might actually widen the already savage inequalities between North and South, rich and poor.
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  The impact of armed conflict on children

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  This document reviews the wide-ranging series of actions taken in response to the recommendations of the 1996 Machel Report. Many of the significant achievements are woven into this text, which constitutes an early summary of a book that will be published in early 2001.
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  Are wage adjustments an effective mechanism for poverty alleviation?: some simulations for domestic and farm workers

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2000

  The South African Department of Labour's recent call for public submissions and public comment on the issue of minimum wages and conditions of employment for domestic and farm workers has bought these issues to the fore. An analysis of the first of these two issues, namely wages, will place into sharp focus the stringent trade-offs faced by the Department of Labour in this part of the workforce.

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