Authors:Laura Frost, Michael R. Reich,  Tadataka Yamada,
Publisher: Harvard Center for Population and Development Stud
Keywords: poor, health, population, series, international, harvard, people, technologies, access, countries
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2009-03-31
ISBN-10: 0674032152
ISBN-13: 9780674032156

Many people in developing countries lack access to health technologies, even basic ones. Why do these problems in access persist? What can be done to improve access to good health technologies, especially for poor people in poor countries? This book answers those questions by developing a comprehensive analytical framework for access and examining six case studies to explain why some health technologies achieved more access than others. The technologies include praziquantel (for the treatment of schistosomiasis), hepatitis B vaccine, malaria rapid diagnostic tests, vaccine vial monitors for

Author: Anthony Perry
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: house, poor
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2009-09-31
eBookDB-ID: B002QHWOP4

This fictional delight is about the healing and abundant life that comes when we learn to submit ourselves entirely to God and God’s kingdom in this life. Anthony Perry uses real life experiences in a fictional backdrop to create a life changing and transforming work. This book will challenge and stretch your view and beliefs about what it means to be a Christian.

Authors:Ariel Fiszbein, Norbert Schady, Francisco H. G. Ferr
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: bank, world, policy, research, report, poverty, future, cash, transfers, reducing, present, conditional
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2009-02-06
ISBN-10: 0821373528
ISBN-13: 9780821373521

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are one of the most popular interventions in the social sectors in developing countries. While the details of program design vary, all of these programs transfer resources to poor households conditional on them taking active measures to build up the human capital of their children (enrolling their children in school, taking them for regular health care visits). In almost every instance, transfers are made to women. CCT programs have two clear objectives. First, they seek to provide poor households with a minimum consumption floor. Second, in making tran

Authors:Jaana Juvonen, Vi-Nhuan Le, Tessa Kaganoff, Cathe
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: american, middle, school, facing, challenges, wonder, years, focus
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833033905
ISBN-13: 9780833033901

Young teens undergo multiple physical, social-emotional, and intellectual changes, which have been viewed as setting them apart from both younger and older students. The basic concept of a separate middle school was to better focus on and serve the special needs of children in their early teens. The question is whether middle schools, as currently designed and operated, are performing that function well. Or, as some have alleged, do they unintentionally encourage poor behavior, alienation, disengagement, and low achievement? This monograph is a comprehensive assessment of the American middle s

Author: World Bank Group
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: bank, country, study, world, poverty, overcoming, rural, china
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2001-04
ISBN-10: 0821349252
ISBN-13: 9780821349250

The primary purpose of this report is to assess the state of poverty in China at the end of the 1990s. The book also evaluates the most effective and efficient means of overcoming the remaining absolute poverty in the new decade. It focuses on China's absolute poor who are increasingly concentrated in remote and mountainous townships and villages. The report places considerable emphasis on the macroeconomic context, and finds that the trends in poverty reduction in the 1990s have been partly determined by larger macroeconomic trends.

Authors:Lisa H. Jaycox, Audra Langley, Kristin L. Dean
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: sset, program, trauma, exposed, students, support
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833047329
ISBN-13: 9780833047328

Exposure to community and interpersonal violence is a public health crisis that adversely affects many children in American communities. After witnessing or experiencing trauma, many children experience symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression, behavioral problems, substance abuse, and poor school performance. The Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET) program is a series of ten lessons whose structured approach aims to reduce distress resulting from exposure to trauma. Designed to be implemented by teachers or school counselors in groups of 8

Author: Jim Munroe
Publisher: Thunder’s Mouth Press
Keywords: silico, everyone
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-11-21
ISBN-10: 1568582404
ISBN-13: 9781568582405

What happens when the cyberworld becomes more important than the real world . . . ? Modern citizens in 2036 are willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when you want it to, not when some faceless entity decides it’s your time. Those who don’t buy in -- the poor, the old, the paranoid -- have to watch as their loved ones, their friends and their jobs leave the city. They have to watch as the latest prestige technology, Self, changes everything -- not just the world, but humanity itself. E