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Survey of disability projects : the experience of SHIA, Swedish International Aid for Solidarity and Humanity

Nordquist, Kaj - World Bank Group - 2000

This paper reviews the work of Sweden's International Aid for Solidarity and Humanity (SHIA), and umbrella association of Swedish organizations of people with disabilities, and derives lessons, and good practices on disability-related activities. SHIA emphasizes supporting human rights, while...

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Why are educated women less likely to be employed in India? Testing competing hypotheses

Das, Maitreyi Bordia; Desai, Sonalde - World Bank Group - 2003

In this paper we use the Indian National Sample Survey data for 1993-94 to examine the relationship between women's education and labor force participation. While it has been recognized in the literature that education is associated with lower labor force participation for women in South Asia,...

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Can conditional cash transfer programs play a greater role in reducing child undernutrition?

Bassett, Lucy - World Bank Group - 2008

, coordinated, and leveraged to increase their impact on child undernutrition? How can best practices from nutrition interventions … to become an effective tool in nutrition policy and programming? The paper is organized as follows: section two defines … explores how best practices in nutrition could inform CCT design and section seven introduces redesigned and emerging CCTs …

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Child work in Zambia : a comparative study of survey instruments

Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Dar, Amit; Guarcello, Lorenzo; … - World Bank Group - 2002

The authors analyze child work in Zambia, applying two recent surveys, the Bank's Living Conditions Monitoring Survey (LCMS) of 1998, and the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Statistical Information and Monitoring Programme on Child Labour (SIMPOC) of 1999. The analysis aims at...

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Gender and social funds : challenges and opportunities

Kuehnast, Kathleen - World Bank Group - 2003

This report examines the various challenges and opportunities of mainstreaming gender issues in social fund projects and offers five good practice examples of gender integration in social fund projects in Ethiopia, Honduras, Malawi, Moldova, and Romania. Each case study takes gender into...

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A bundle of joy or an expensive luxury : a comparative analysis of the economic environment for family formation in Western Europe

Paci, Pierella - World Bank Group - 1999

This report provides a description of the diversity of current policies towards the family across the European Union and an account of the current"state of the art"on the effects of these policies on demographic and labor market behavior. There is an implicit assumption that the tax and benefit...

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Conditional cash transfers and school enrollment : impact of the conditional cash transfer program in the Philippines

Chaudhury, Nazmul; Okamura, Yuko - World Bank Group - 2012

Despite modest economic growth over the past decade, the Philippines have made little progress in reducing poverty. In this regard, the Philippines is an outlier in the region, seemingly unable to translate economic growth into meaningful poverty reduction. This underscores the fact that...

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Child labor and school enrollment in Thailand in the 1990s

Tzannatos, Zafiris - World Bank Group - 1998

This report examines the situation of child labor in Thailand in the last decade. It finds that child labor has decreased significantly, for example, the labor force participation rates of those aged 13-14 years has almost halved since 1990. Despite this decline, 1.6 million children below the...

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Supporting and expanding community-based HIV/AIDS prevention and care responses : a report on Save the Children (US) Malawi COPE Project

Hunter, Susan S. - World Bank Group - 2002

In 1995, Save the Children/US-Malawi introduced a small pilot project called COPE-Community-based Options for Protection and Empowerment, to provide direct services to prevent, and mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on children, families, and communities in one district. Over the past six years,...

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The World Bank and children : a review of activities

Kaur, Iqbal; Tzannatos, Zafiris - World Bank Group - 2002

This paper reviews Bank interventions that supported the welfare of children in the last decade. Though the Bank has always addressed children's development, and protection through its focus of broader economic development, and social protection, it has recently intensified its efforts to...

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