strategy by identifying major issues in family and child welfare, assessing efficiency and effectiveness of current policies … education, effects of migration, and the increased risk of joining an underclass of children deprived of family upbringing. The … government will have to focus on a number of key issues in creating an environment ensuring family and child well-being. …

"A family preference for sons over daughters may manifest itself in different ways, including higher mortality, worse … developing world, namely the likelihood of continued childbearing given the gender composition of existing children in the family …

work. The increased chore hours could also account for the results on marriage for girls. "--World Bank web site …

Education Global Practice at the World Bank on the role of law to end child marriage. The discussions took place within the … and social costs of child marriage with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children Investment …

of the present report are: a) to analyze the main characteristics of family agriculture as well as its development … measures aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and increasing development opportunities for family producers; and d) contribute to … presenting a set of policy recommendations and measures to support an economic and environmentally sustainable family agriculture …