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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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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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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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surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …
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developing world, namely the likelihood of continued childbearing given the gender composition of existing children in the family … that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of … wellbeing if there are quantity-quality trade-offs that result in fewer material and emotional resources allocated to children …
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"Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the...
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The analysis focuses on: (1) the study of population (development and impact on different sectors) and reproductive health issues, including the HIV/AIDS epidemic; (2) examination of institutional structures responsible for population and reproductive health issues; (3) the performance of the...
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