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  Inter-temporal Changes in Welfare: Preliminary Results from Nine African Countries

  Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 1999

  Looks at changes in living standards over time using the comparable Demographic Health Surveys.
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  School Based Health and Nutrition Programmes: Findings from a survey of donor and agency support

  School Health, 1998

  Findings suggest that:There is increasing donor interest in the health and nutrition of the school-aged child,adolescents and youth generally.
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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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  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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  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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  The ecoregional factor: new perspectives on malnutrition and poverty (HCD Dissemination Note)

  HNPFLASH, 1995

  This exploratory research provides strong initial evidence of the linkages between the natural environment, socioeconomic factors and the incidence of malnutrition and poverty. Exploitation of these linkages has the potential to improve both targeting and interventions against malnutrition endemic in so many areas.
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  The Utility of Bloodspot Technologies In Low Income Countries

  Centre for International Child Health, London, 1999

  In recent years, blood spot techniques have been developed to provide simple, low cost and accurate ways of screening for a variety of medical problems. Since the 1960's in the developed world, the screening for inborn errors of metabolism has been in routine practice.
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  Working Document on Health and Family Planning Indicators: A Tool for Results Frameworks

  Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1999

  Draws on technical reviews of USAID mission documents, with the aim of providing an introduction to the results framework (a hierarchical model consisting of strategic objective, supporting intermediate results, and key performance indicators; presenting and defining key indicators; and offering guidance on difficulties in collecting and interpreting data for these indicators.
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  Promise and progress: Achieving goals for children 1990-2000

  United Nations Children's Fund, 1999

  Six years after the World Summit for Children brought together leaders, including 71 Heads of Government or State, from nearly 160 countries in New York to pledge to ensure the survival and to promote the development of children, United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is able to report significant progress in many regions in child health, nutrition, basic education and water.
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  Guatemalan Survey of Family Health (EGSF)

  RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999

  The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health, known as EGSF from its name in Spanish, was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support and health beliefs in this process.

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