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

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  Situation analysis of children in Tanzania

  Tanzania Online, 2001

  This report on the situation of children in Tanzania is informed by a human rights-based perspective on the well-being and development of children.The document states that although there have been signinficant macro-level developments in Tanzania these have yet to be translated into concrete improvements in the lives of children.
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  Achieving sustainable universal primary education through debt relief: the case of Kenya

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  This study critically reviews the education sector in Kenya and the challenges facing the sector in achieving universal primary schooling.The study argues that the introduction of cost sharing system in Kenya has resulted in high drop out and repetition rates, low transition and completion rates.
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  Implementing a New Indicator of Social Development in Mexico: Literate Life Expectancy (LLE) (Medina / IIASA)

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1999

  For scientists, measuring social development has been a long-lasting objective; for the public, it has been a partially-resolved demand. Social indicators have been used informally for a very long time, particularly in economics, to assess the state of the nation and progress towards national objectives.
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  The dynamics of poverty : why some people escape from poverty and others don't : an African case study

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  In urban areas of Cote d'Ivoire, human capital is the endowment that best explains welfare changes over time. In rural areas, physical capital especially the amount of land and farm equipment owned matters most.Empirical investigations of poverty in developing countries tend to focus on the incidence of poverty at a particular point in time.
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  Gender disparity in South Asia : comparisons betwen and within countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  While gender disparities in health and education outcomes are higher on average in South Asian than in other countries, the large within country differences in gender disparity, between Indian states or Pakistani provinces, demand more local explanations.
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  The Mechanics of Progress in Education: Evidence from Cross-Country Data

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Argues that, so long as educational coverage is not yet universal, a more efficient strategy for educational development is to emphasize continued expansion of coverage rather than a rapid reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio.
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  Gender and public social spending: disaggregating benefit incidence

  Gendernet, World Bank, 1999

  Describes how the gender dimension of public spending on health and education can be captured in part through benefit incidence analysis.It contains two basic messages: gender disaggregations are important in their own right, since they highlight gender differences in benefit incidence which are of policy concernthese gender differences are also important in understanding other matt
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  Education for All: a compact for Africa

  Oxfam, 1999

  Makes a case for increased/refocussed funding for primary education in Africa, for consideration at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in April 2000.
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  Reaching out to children in poverty. The integrated child development servicesin Tamil Nadu, (ICDS)

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000

  Programme has been offering a package of of services related to human resource development - health , nutrition, and education - for children, adolescent girls and and women.
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  African Journals Online (AJOL)

  International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, 1999

  The International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) launched AJOL in 1998 with only 14 journals. By January 2004 it had over 175 African journals covering most subject areas. Journals included in AJOL are scholarly in content with peer reviewed articles, and publish a mixture of pure and applied research as well as review papers.

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