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  Mother-Father Resource Control, Marriage Payments, and Girl-Boy Health in Rural Bangladesh

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  Patterns of household decision-making and gender bias within rural Bangladeshi households are investigated in this study.
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  Estudio Evaluativo Participativo de G?nero

  1998

  This document evaluates the progress of gender work in the agrarian sector in Peru. It mainly focuses on a project called PRONAMACHCS (Proyecto Nacional de Manejo de Cuencas y Conservaci¢n de Suelos - National project for soil conservation and basin management).
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  Better Rich or Better There? Grandparent Wealth, Coresidence, and Intrahousehold Allocation

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1997

  In much of the developing world, extended family household structures are more common than nuclear families. This paper examines the effect of family background over two generations on investments in children (education and land) in the rural Philippines.
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  Gender Gaps in Schools and Colleges: Can Teacher Education Policy Improve Gender Equity

  University of Sussex, UK, 2000

  The current gender gap in education might partly be explained by the differential impact that the teacher education policy in Malawi has on men and women. The research on which the paper is based formed part of a study of primary teacher education, a sub-study of the Multi-site Teacher Education Research Project (MUSTER) .
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  Educating Indigenous Girls in Latin America: Closing the Gap

  1997

  Despite the fact that gender parity in education has been achieved for children in most Latin American countries, the education of indigenous girls lags behind the rate for indigenous boys, and further behind the rate for non-indigenous children. As a group, indigenous females have the lowest literacy rate.
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  The Girls Report: What We Know and Need to Know About Growing Up Female

  National Council for Research on Women, 1998

  How do girls in the United States (U.S.) meet adolescent challenges' Large- scale national studies suggest that they are as likely as boys to smoke, have inadequate access to sports, are twice as likely as boys to suffer depression and are often subjected to violence.
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  Girls' Education: Good for Boys, Good for Development

  WID-RES-L, 1999

  Does increasing targeting of scarce donor resources to girls' education subtract from educational opportunities for boys' Experience shows otherwise. When the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) opened schools for girls, many parents preferred to send their sons as well as daughters to them instead of government schools.
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  Gender Equality and Investments in Adolescents in the Rural Philippines

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  Adolescents will constitute one fifth of the total population of the Philippines by 2010. Despite the fact that they receive a large share of household resources, adolescents have been relatively neglected in intra- household allocation research.
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  Planning Appropriate Cervical Cancer Control Programs, 2nd Edition

  Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, 2000

  An estimated 466,000 new cases of cervical cancer occur annually among women world-wide. Nearly 80 percent of cases are in developing countries where screening programmes are not well established or are minimally effective.
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  Gender, Health and Development - A Facilitator's Guide

  Pan-American Health Organisation, 1997

  This manual offers a facilitator's guide to conducting a two-day training workshop on gender, health and development. It incorporates a number of different training methods and approaches, however all use participatory techniques to support the process of learning and time is allowed to discuss and question issues raised.

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