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, Malagasy women and girls encounter significant disadvantages across all dimensions of well-being and are unable to access … opportunities in an equal manner with men and boys in the country. They are largely constrained in their ability to accumulate human … decision-making, particularly with respect to family formation. Women and girls also appear to be disproportionally affected by …
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, Malagasy women and girls encounter significant disadvantages across all dimensions of well-being and are unable to access … opportunities in an equal manner with men and boys in the country. They are largely constrained in their ability to accumulate human … decision-making, particularly with respect to family formation. Women and girls also appear to be disproportionally affected by …
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, Malagasy women and girls encounter significant disadvantages across all dimensions of well-being and are unable to access … opportunities in an equal manner with men and boys in the country. They are largely constrained in their ability to accumulate human … decision-making, particularly with respect to family formation. Women and girls also appear to be disproportionally affected by …
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Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational … transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails … childbearing; and/or (3) delay marriage for adolescent girls in developing countries. The focus is on these three outcomes because …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644562
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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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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presents a summary of the key challenges facing Guinean women and girls relative to men and boys. The report has a particular …Evidence shows that Guinean women and girls face important barriers across all dimensions of well-being that prevent … them from having access to opportunities on an equal footing with men. The poor agency of women and girls, as reflected in …
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