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In Nepal, both early marriage and motherhood still place adolescents and their children at a great disadvantage. In 2011, one-third of girls aged 15-19 were already married. About 60 percent of them were pregnant or had at least one child, and one in ten had two living children (Nepal...
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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) is one of five areas of focus of the World Bank?s Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010?2015 (RHAP), which recognizes the importance of addressing ASRH as a development issue with important implications for poverty reduction. Delaying childbearing...
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dolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) is one of five areas of focus of the World Bank's reproductive health action plan (RHAP) 2010-2015, which recognizes the importance of addressing ASRH as a development issue with important implications for poverty reduction. Delaying childbearing...
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Maldives, a middle income country, is on track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while gender gap requires attention. Maldives has made great progress in improving maternal health and has achieved MDG. The total fertility rate has declined to 2.3 in 2012. Contraceptive use...
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The Employing Skilled Expatriates indicators analyze the skilled immigration regime relevant for foreign direct investment across 93 economies to provide comparable information about this regulatory space. The indicators focus on restrictions that control the inflow of skilled immigrants...
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Most migration surveys do not ask about the legal status of migrants due to concerns about the sensitivity of this … Philippines. It shows how, in principal, this can be used both to give an estimate of the overall rate of illegal migration in the … population being surveyed, as well as to determine illegal migration rates for subgroups such as more or less educated households …
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Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which … capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by gender and education in 1990 and 2000, and calculation of nuanced brain …-gravity model, then identifies key determinants of international migration, and subsequently uses estimated parameters to impute …
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Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, the … human-capital structure of current migration flows. The analysis exploits a bilateral data set on international migration by … controlling for various determinants of migration, the analysis finds that diasporas increase migration flows, lower the average …
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Since 1990 migration flows from Albania have been massive, relative to the size of the country and its population, but …. The paper also presents a hazard approach to modeling Albanian emigration and return migration. This analysis highlights …, among other things, the relevance of networks in Albanian migration dynamics, both to promote emigration and to delay return. …
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From less than 5 percent in 1980, the share of residents from the former Republic of Yugoslavia in the total foreign population in Switzerland rose to almost 25% in 2000, to become one of the largest foreign communities. The largest increase occurs mostly between 1985 and 1998 and represents a...
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