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  Progress for children: beyond averages - learning from the MDGs

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2015

  This eleventh edition of Progress for Children is UNICEF’s final report on the child-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It presents latest data that show while the MDGs helped drive tremendous advances in the lives of the world’s children, development efforts in the past 15 years failed to reach millions of the most disadvantaged.
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  Why population matters to Malawi’s development: managing population growth for sustainable development

  Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, Government of Malawi, 2012

  Malawi adds over 400,000 people each year to its population. Without a reduction in the average number of births per woman, health, education and employment services will be overstretched.
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  An evaluation of progress toward the Millennium Development Goal one hunger target: a country-level, food and nutrition security perspective

  United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2010

  One of the targets of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015. This paper warns that many countries remain far from reaching this target, and much of the progress made has been eroded by the recent global food price and economic crises.
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  Progress for children: a report card on immunization

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This volume of Progress for Children reports on the progress of immunisations by countries and region.The report finds that East Asia/Pacific, Latin America/Caribbean and Middle East/North Africa are almost achieving the 90 per cent target for DPT3 (national and district coverage).
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  Roars and whispers: gender and poverty: promises vs. action

  Social Watch, 2005

  This annual Social Watch report monitors the progress of the MDGs and poverty reduction using a gendered approach. Divided into three areas it covers: themed discussions, monitoring progress, and national reports from over 50 countries.The study shows that the international community has largely failed to live up to the commitments it adopted in 2000.
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  Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

  Millennium Project, 2005

  Investing in development is the final report of the UN Millennium Project. It presents the findings and recommendations of the project, which will be reported directly to the UN Secretary-General and the Administrator of the UNDP.The report makes ten key recommendations:developing country governments should adopt development strategies bold enough to meet the MDG targets for 2015.
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  Health research for equity in global health: statement by the Global Forum for Health Research

  Global Forum for Health Research, 2004

  This statement, published by the Global Forum for Health Research, reports on its eighth annual meeting, held in Mexico City from 16-20 November 2004, which considered how health research could be used to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Role of mothers in alleviating child malnutrition: evidence from Sri Lanka

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2003

  This paper begins with the assertion that having a productive workforce depends first on having healthy children, who will grow into workers. The authors argue that Sri Lanka faces a serious problem of malnourished children, which will have knock-on effects for Sri Lanka's growth.
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  Impacts of Community Health Insurance Schemes on Health Care Provision in Rural Tanzania

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2004

  This study examines community health funds (CHF) in Tanzania to evaluate the role of community health funds in lowering the barriers to access health care. The authors found that protection by the community schemes drastically increases participants’ demand for health care.
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  Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: the role of infrastructure

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003

  This paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of child health in order to make the case for the importance of combining interventions, including access to basic infrastructure services, in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys, the paper goes beyond traditional cross-country regressions by exploiting the variability

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