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Out of School and Out of Work: Risk and opportunities for Latin America's Ninis
Children and adolescents who neither work nor go to school are often known as ‘ninis’ throughout Latin America. One in five youths in the region are living as ninis. This persistent problem, according to the World Bank Group, needs to be given closer cons
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Education Aspirations and Barriers to Achievement for Young People in Ethiopia. Working paper No. 120
This paper reports on the educational aspirations and the challenges facing children living in poor communities in Ethiopia. Using Young Lives survey and qualitative longitudinal data, the paper finds that children hold high educational aspirations and ma
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Violence against Children in Kenya: Findings from a 2010 National Survey. Summary Report on the Prevalence of Sexual, Physical and Emotional Violence, Context of Sexual Violence, and Health and Behavioral Consequences of Violence Experienced in Childhood
The 2010 Kenya Violence Against Children Survey (KVACS) was funded by UNICEF and carried out in collaboration with the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, crucial stakeholders and partners from across t
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Barnfattigdomen i Sverige: Sammanfattning av Barns ekonomiska utsatthet i Sverige. Rädda Barnens årsrapport 2012
This new report summarizes the findings of Save the Children Sweden's Annual Report on Child Poverty 2012. It shows that 220,000 children were living in poverty in Sweden in 2008, and the figure is increasing. The child poverty rate has risen in 282 of 29
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From Policy to Implementation: An In-Depth Exploration of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Andhra Pradesh [Working paper No. 82]
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was rolled out across India in 2008. Following positive appraisals of MGNREGS based on quantitative data (e.g. Uppal 2009), this paper uses household survey data from adults and from
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Barns ekonomiska utsatthet- Årsrapport 2012
Some 220,000 children were living in poverty in Sweden in 2008, and the figure is rising, says the new Save the Children report on child poverty. This report, which is the eighth annual update from the organisation addressing the issue of child poverty, u
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Growing up with the promise of the MDGs: Children’s hopes for the future of development
Improving children’s life chances is central to what the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are seeking to achieve. Based on an analysis of survey and qualitative data from 12,000 children in four countries – Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vi
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Does International Child Sponsorship Work? A Six-Country Study of Impacts on Adult Life Outcomes
A new study published in the Journal of Political Economy shows international child sponsorship to result in markedly higher rates of schooling completion and substantially improved adult employment outcomes. International child sponsorship is one of the
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Evolving men: Initial Results from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey [IMAGES]
This report summarizes multi-country findings from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), a comprehensive household questionnaire on men’s attitudes and practices – along with women’s opinions and reports of men’s practices – on a wide
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Välfärd, inte för alla- 2011
Rädda Barnen has been publishing reports on child porverty in Sweden since 2002, calling for a national action plan to combat the growing incidence of child poverty. This report for 2011, written by Tapio Salonen, Professor at the Lund and Växjö universit
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Stolen childhoods: A Study of Child Trafficking in the Kosi Region of Bihar
The report 'Stolen Childhoods: A Study of Child Trafficking in the Kosi Region of Bihar", India, prepared by Save the Children, shows that out of 8,252 children surveyed in two districts, 639 (7.7%), had been trafficked. There are fears that the problem w
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Beyond Orphanhood: Rethinking Vulnerability in Ethiopia
‘Orphans’ as a category of vulnerable children came to the fore in the context of the global AIDS crisis. Currently the notion of ‘Orphans and Vulnerable Children’ (or OVCs) dominates much of the child protection debates across sub-Saharan Africa. Data fr