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Achieving the MDGs Targets in Nutrition: Does Inequality Matter?
The prevalence of malnutrition in Bangladesh is one of the highest in the world. Millions of children and women suffer from one or more forms of malnutrition including low birth weight, wasting, stunting, underweight, etc. Today, malnutrition not only aff
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What Do National Poverty Lines Tell Us About Global Poverty? IDS Working Paper
The basic question about ‘how many poor people are there in the world?’ generally assumes that poverty is measured according to international poverty lines (IPLs). Yet, an equally relevant question could be ‘how many poor people are there in the world, ba
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Empowered lives: Resilient Bangladesh. Results achieved with our partners, 2006-2011
2011 marks the 40th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence, providing an historic moment for reflection on the enormous distance that the nation has travelled since 1971. Emerging from a devastating conflict and facing innumerable challenges from the ou
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Completar la escuela: Un derecho para crecer, un deber para compartir. Todos los niños en la escuela en 2015. Iniciativa Global por los Niños fuera de la Escuela
In Latin America and the Caribbean there are approximately 117 million children and adolescents in preschool, primary and basic secondary education age groups. However, 6.5 million of them do not attend school and 15.6 million either enter school one or t
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Shared value: How can large businesses contribute to the post-2015 agenda?
Businesses, large and small, have played an important role in contributing to the Millennium Development Goals. Now, they need to go further. To move from corporate responsibility to shared value we must place development objectives at the core of busines
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South African Gauge 2012. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town
The South African Child Gauge is the only publication in the country that provides an annual snapshot of the status of South Africa’s children. It is published by the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town, to track South Africa’s progress towards
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The MDG Gap Task Force Report 2012: The Global Partnership for Development: Making Rhetoric a Reality
In its 2012 Report, the MDG Gap Task Force has had difficulty identifying areas of significant new progress towards delivering on commitments to the Global Partnership for Development, and for the first time there are signs of backsliding. The volume of o
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The Millennium Development Goals Report. Gender Chart 2012
The biennial MDGs Gender Chart depicts the situation of women and girls in developing regions as reflected in a number of indicators that are used to monitor the Millennium Development Goals. It shows that although there has been some progress in a number
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Integrating Gender in Care and Support of Vulnerable Children: A Guide for Program Designers and Implementers
This guide, developed by FHI 360, provides step-by-step guidance and recommendations on how to identify and address gender-related issues that negatively affect vulnerable boys and girls in the local program context. It is intended to be a practical tool
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Young Lives School Survey in Peru: Design and Initial Findings. Working paper 92
This paper presents the methodology and initial findings from the Young Lives School Survey in Peru, which looked at inequality in educational opportunities and outcomes of children from the Young Lives study. Information was collected in 132 schools in n
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Garantinivå för stöd till barn i utsatta situationer. En nationell enkätundersökning
A report by Save the Children Sweden providing a national picture of how social safety nets for vulnerable children differ significantly depending on where in Sweden you live. This mapping helps explore the inequalities in preventive social care services
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2011 Report on the Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Two years after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty [2009], the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the ‘Charter’) has become a point of reference commonly used in the development of EU policies. The Charter is of great interest not