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Compendium of International and National Legal Frameworks on Child Marriage
World Bank - 2023
and social costs of child marriage with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children Investment … school children. In 2022, the Empowering Women by Balancing the Law (EWBL) initiative of the Legal Vice Presidency of the …
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Month of birth and children's health in India
Lokshin, Michael - 2009
the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … months have lower anthropometric scores compared with children born during the fall and winter months. The authors propose … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …
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Tajikistan - Improving Statistics for Children's Births and Deaths
World Bank - 2012
The Government of Tajikistan has identified improving maternal and child health (MCH) as key priorities in its new Health Sector Strategy for 2010-2020. The Government recognizes that improving MCH outcomes is critical to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for maternal and child...
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The consequences of early childhood growth failure over the life course:
Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John; Behrman, Jere R.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
This paper examines the impact over the life course of early childhood growth failure as measured by achieved height at 36 months. It uses data collected on individuals who participated in a nutritional supplementation trial between 1969 and 1977 in rural Guatemala and who were subsequently...
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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2009
surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …
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From early child development to human development : investing in our children's future
Young, Mary E. (contributor) - 2002
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The consequences of child labor : evidence from longitudinal data in rural Tanzania
Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2008
"This paper exploits a unique longitudinal data set from Tanzania to examine the consequences of child labor on education, employment choices, and marital status over a 10-year horizon. Shocks to crop production and rainfall are used as instrumental variables for child labor. For boys, the...
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The Egyptian fertility survey, 1980
1983
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Experiments in family planning : lessons from the developing world
Cuca, Roberto; Pierce, Catherine S. - 1977
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Population growth and policies in sub-Saharan Africa
1986 - 2. print
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