and social costs of child marriage with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children Investment … Education Global Practice at the World Bank on the role of law to end child marriage. The discussions took place within the … school children. In 2022, the Empowering Women by Balancing the Law (EWBL) initiative of the Legal Vice Presidency of the …

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

This study examines the constraints on the housing sector in Afghanistan. It evaluates government policy on housing …, looks at the state of housing finance, and examines legal and regulatory barriers with a bearing on the housing market. The … report provides policy recommendations aimed at helping to develop a private-sector led housing market. To assist in …

integrated market-driven housing finance system. This transition has included an increased role of private universal banks in the … immediate term and a functioning secondary mortgage market in the long term. An active system of housing finance provides real …-term funds in the economy as an alternative to investment in treasury bonds. In turn, each dollar invested in the housing sector …

The housing finance market in Mali remains small and under developed. Few banks currently offer a full mortgage product … with Banque Malienne de Solidarite, Mali Housing Bank (BHM), Bank of Africa, and EcoBank being the main lenders although at … minimal levels. The total annual housing need in Mali based on the household formation rate amounts to 82,500, split between …

The objective of this Housing Sector Strategy Report is to assist the Government of Iran in aligning its housing policy … circumstances and the effect its volatile oil-dependent economy has had on the housing sector. It discusses the principal challenges … posed by the housing sector, with particular reference to demographic pressures, centralized and supply-oriented housing …

to initiate a dialog with housing finance market stakeholders on the course of action appropriate for their jurisdictions … private housing finance market participants. It offers observations of the recent Europe and Central Asia (ECA) market …

housing agenda, there is an urgent need for a holistic sector approach. The following three key areas require attention from … policymakers: first, there is a need to better balance housing supply and demand, which requires the authorities to focus on … prudent mortgage lending standards and supervision, as well as on provision of housing infrastructure and zoned land. Second …