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spending on education, health care, and nutrition are often more likely to affect adolescent girls than boys. In Malawi … countries if current trends continue. The high prevalence of child marriage and teenage pregnancy among Malawian girls greatly … socio-cultural determinants that perpetuate a vicious cycle for the poorest and most vulnerable girls and have costly …
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spending on education, health care, and nutrition are often more likely to affect adolescent girls than boys. In Malawi … countries if current trends continue. The high prevalence of child marriage and teenage pregnancy among Malawian girls greatly … socio-cultural determinants that perpetuate a vicious cycle for the poorest and most vulnerable girls and have costly …
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males, but curtail them for girls. Zambia's persistently high fertility combined with decreasing mortality is not only …
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Following decades of sustained economic growth during which Uganda made dramatic progresstowards poverty reduction, the country has recently experienced a period of economic growthslow down. To return to higher rates of economic growth and poverty reduction, the Government mustaddress...
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.Despite substantial progress over the last two decades, girls still have lower average levels ofeducational attainment than boys at the … focuses on ending child marriages and early childbearing as well as improving girls' level of educational attainment … secondary level in many countries. This is also the case inMalawi, partly because many girls marry or have children before the …
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Economic performance in 2018 has been mixed. The data that are available suggest some areas of softening in the economy.1 Foreign direct investment declined to 2 percent of GDP in 2017, down from about 5 percent in 2014. The current account deficit has increased to 3.8 percent of GDP in the year...
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Malawi with particular attention to the impacts on girls and women …
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) crisis, like the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic, is likely to damage adolescent girls' education prospects and their human capital … potentials as the prevalence of child marriage and early childbearing as well as the risk of girls dropping out of school are all … exacerbated during crises. This update comprises the economic outlook for Sierra Leone and a special chapter on educating girls …
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Women face many barriers to using public transport services, despite representing the largest share of public transport users around the world. Transport and infrastructure-oriented barriers are related to constraints in its affordability, acceptability and availability, as well as to the...
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This how-to note provides guiding principles and practical strategies for integrating Violence Against Women and Girls …
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