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Searching with a thematic focus on Children and young people, Education, Poverty

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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Ethiopia

  Young Lives, 2003

  Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.
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  Caribbean youth development: issues and policy directions

  World Bank, 2003

  The objectives of this report are threefold.
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  Reaching the poor: the ‘costs’ of sending children to school: a six country comparative study

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This comparative research study focuses on the main barriers to education for the poorest households in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. Although the study set out primarily to look at the burden of education costs on the poorest households, other barriers to education (e.g. physical access, quality of education, vulnerability/poverty, and health,) are also discussed.
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  Generating decent work for young people

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This paper summarises some of the main global trends related to youth unemployment and underemployment. It highlights some of the key issues involved in generating decent work - in conditions of freedom, equality, security and human dignity for young women and men.
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  Social impact of the economic crisis on vulnerable children in Thailand

  World Bank, 1998

  Aims to assess the key social impacts of the economic crisis in Thailand and its possible implications for children and their families in Thailand and neighbouring countries.Impacts of the economic crisis on Thailand include: unemployment rapidly rose in rural areas.
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  Lasting wounds: consequences of genocide and war on Rwanda's children

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report documents widespread violations of the rights of the child in post-genocide Rwanda.
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  Latin American youth in transition: a policy paper on youth unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean

  2002

  This policy analysis focuses on the school-to-work transition as providing the central context in understanding youth unemployment in Latin America.Youth unemployment is not a transitory state to employment, rather it is a very lengthy process where youth move from unemployment, schooling, unpaid unemployment, and low-wage unskilled employment — all of which have low opportunity costs.
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  Poverty, AIDS and children’s schooling: a targeting dilemma

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper analyzes the relationship between orphan status, household wealth, and child school enrollment using data collected in the 1990s from 28 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, with one country in Southeast Asia.The findings point to considerable diversity—so much so that generalizations are not possible:while there are some examples of large differenti
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  School subsidies for the poor: evaluating the Mexican Progresa poverty program

  Yale University Library, 2001

  This paper argues that subsidising schooling among the rural poor could potentially reduce entrenched and intergenerational transmission of poverty if considered as a economically and geographically targeted policy.Based on an evaluation of the Progresa Program, which targets the geographically and economically (at the household level) poor in relatively immobile, rural villages of Central and
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  The impact of adult mortality on primary school enrollment in northwestern Tanzania

  Africa Region Human Development Department, World Bank, 2002

  The goal of this study is to measure the impact of adult deaths and orphan status on household decisions to enroll children in primary school.

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