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    Conflict's children: the human cost of small arms in Kitgum and Kotido, Uganda

    Oxfam, 2001
    Reporting on a field study conducted in several areas and instutions in Kitgum and Kotido (Uganda), this paper presents a literature review, results of informant interviews, and assesses the impact of small arms on education.Conclusions and recommendations:Small arms have played a major role in creating the devastating poverty and misery experienced by the majority of the civilian po
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    Enabling the disability NGOs?: centralisation versus competition in Pakistan and Bangladesh

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2001
    This article reviews contrasting development patterns of 'Disability NGOs' (i.e. Non Government Organisations concerned with disablement) in Pakistan and Bangladesh, two nations with some political, cultural and socio-economic similarities.
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    Children in Bulgaria: growing impoverishment and unequal opportunities

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000
    The paper investigates the changes that occurred over the last decade in three dimensions of child welfare recognised as fundamental child rights - economic well-being, health and education.
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    Gender inequality, income, and growth: are good times good for women?

    Gendernet, World Bank, 1999
    This paper asks what macroeconomic data reveal about three specific questions:is lower investment in girls' education simply an efficient economic choice for developing countries?does gender inequality reflect different social or cultural preferences about gender roles?is there evidence of market failures that may lead to under-investment in girls, failures that may decline as coun
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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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    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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    Girls and Schools in Sub-Saharan Africa

    HNPFLASH, 1999
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    'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
    The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a tobit and data from Uganda.
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    Child Labor in Cote d'Ivoire: Incidence and Determinants

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
    Most children in Côte d'Ivoire perform some kind of work. In rural areas, more than four of five children work, with only a third combining work with schooling. Child labor in Côte d'Ivoire increased in the 1980s because of a severe economic crisis. Two out of three urban children aged 7 to 17 work; half of them also attend school.
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    Child labor and schooling in Ghana

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    To improve human capital and reduce the incidence of child labor in Ghana, the country's school systems should reduce families' schooling costs, adapt to the constraints on schooling in rural areas (where most children must work at least part-time), and provide better education (more relevant to the needs of the labor market).

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