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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 … Fund Foundation, as well as additional support from the Global Partnership for Education under a grant for work on out of …
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accompanied by better access to micro-credit, irrigation, education, electrification, social safety net programs, and dynamic …
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, especially for girls. Increases in schooling are matched by an increase in education expenditures that appears to absorb most of …
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"This paper investigates the relationship of household income with child labor. The analysis uses a rich dataset obtained in the context of a conditional cash transfer program in a poor region of Nicaragua in 2005 and 2006. The program has a strong productive emphasis and seeks to diversify the...
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"This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local...
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household income. The results show that nonfarm activity reduces rural income inequality by raising the income of poor … education are critical to build up the capacity of households (in particular, poor households) to participate in nonfarm …
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"Malnutrition is associated with an inadequate diet, poor health and sanitation services, and insufficient care for young children. A combination of income growth and nutrition interventions are therefore suggested to adequately tackle this issue, yet evidence to support this claim is often not...
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