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Social Exclusion and Child Nutritional Status among the Scheduled Population in India

by Dhiraj Barman, Sudipta Sarkar Developing Country Studies ISSN 2224-607X (Paper) Vol.3, No.3, 2013 The concept of social exclusion covers a wide range of economic and social problems commonly related poverty, inequality, deprivation and discrimination. The child nutritional status is one of the important areas where the concept has serious applicability. The proportions of undernourished [...]

The Child Development Index 2012

Published by Save the Children Fund 2012. The Child Development Index monitors child well-being in 141 countries, aggregating data on child mortality, primary-school enrolment and underweight. The 2012 edition of the Child Development Index highlights the impressive progress the world has made in reducing child mortality and ensuring millions more children go to school. At [...]

Explaining the Skewed Child Sex Ratio in Rural India Revisiting the Landholding-Patriarchy Hypothesis

by Periyanayagan Arokiasamy and Srinivas Goli Economic and Political Weekly, October20, 2012 Examining the direct relevance of the landholding-patriarchy hypothesis to the dynamics of sex discrimination and family-building strategies in rural India, this paper presents evidence that indicates the child sex ratio varies greatly when stratified by size of household landholdings. The results suggest that [...]

The State of the World’s Children 2012:Children in an Urban World

Published by UNICEF, February 2012 This report focuses mainly on those children in urban settings all over the world who face a particularly complex set of challenges to their development and the fulfilment of their rights. Following an overview of the world’s urban landscape, Chapter 2 looks at the status of children in urban settings [...]

Does Family Composition Affect Social Networking?

by Odelia Heizler and Ayal Kimhi IZA DP No. 6380, February 2012 This paper analyzes the effect of family composition, and in particular the number of children, the age gap between the oldest and youngest child and the age of the youngest child, on parents’ involvement in social networks. The predictions of a simple theoretical [...]

Unaccompanied children on the move

International Organization for Migration (2011) The document aims to provide an overview of the scope of activities of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in relation to the protection of unaccompanied migrant children and support for this group. It significantly draws on IOM’s operational data and programmatic information, collected through internal knowledge management tools; at [...]

Tall Claims: Mortality Selection and the Height of Children

Harold Alderman, Michael Lokshin and Sergiy Radyakin Policy Research Working Paper 5846 Date: Oct-2011 Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India are used to assess the impact of selective mortality on children’s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual scenario that all children who died [...]

THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND WOMEN IN THE CONTEXT OF MIGRATION Conceptual Basis and Principles for Effective Policies with a Human Rights and Gender Based Approach

Victor Abramovich, Pablo Ceriani Cernadas and Alejandro Morlachetti UNICEF POLICY AND PRACTICE WORKING PAPER April 2011 This paper aims to address the issue of children’s and women’s migration from a human rights perspective by highlighting: (i) the particular situation of children and adolescents within the migration-development nexus, (ii) the gender perspective at all stages of [...]

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