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The reduction of child mortality is one of the most universally accepted Millennium Goals. However, there is a significant debate on the means of reaching it and its realism with regard to the situation in most of the least developed countries. The recommendations made for the achievement of...
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This paper provides a synthesis of the three papers on the non-Nordic developed economies, Ireland, Japan and …
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This paper focuses on gender aspects upon children?s food security. Using data from the 1995/1996 Nepal Living … Standards Survey, this study attempts to find evidence to whether children are heavier for their age, taller for their age or …?s intra-family status and children?s food security was analyzed with a linear model, where on the left hand side are children …
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This study examines the role of women's intra-household status relative to men in children's food security in Pakistan … women's intra-household status and children's food security. …
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first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large …
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indicators: nutrition, birth registration, school attendance, and time spent doing work and chores (working hours), with data …
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Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and...
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This Policy Brief is an outcome of the UNU-WIDER research project 'Social Development Indicators'. The overall aim of the project was to provide insights into how human well-being might be better conceptualized and, in particular, measured, by reviewing various concepts and measures and then...
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