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(SSA) has the highest number of children out of school and learning disadvantages. Most studies on child vulnerability … concentrate on disaster, disability and HIV effects on children. Thus, this study investigates the likelihood of a child being … household children are less likely to be disadvantaged in learning outcomes. Households' access to ICTs enhances child learning …
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This paper examines the governance-"education quality" nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2000-2012. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Quantile regression (QR) are employed as estimation strategies. The following findings are established. First, from the OLS,...
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identified gap by providing theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women, and sex trafficking. It is a qualitative …
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they need to consume more of health services or not. This however, lacks in children below the age of 5 years and as such …, frequency of older mothers, vaccination and exclusive breastfeeding. Frequency of older children and larger household sizes were …
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We provide theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women, and sex trafficking during the Covid-19 pandemic …. Process tracing is employed as a primary research instrument. It is an analytical technique used for either theory-building or … theory-testing purposes that is employed to elucidate causation and change as well as to develop and evaluate extant theories …
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linkages between infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices and children's nutritional status in Democratic Republic of … determinant of children's nutritional status as measured by the height-for-age z-score and the probability of stunting. In …'s Ministry of public health to reinforce the parent's education, especially mothers of children, on the importance of infant and …
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-five children in host households in Cameroon. The data used comes from the recent Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey (DHS … the health nutritional outcomes of children respectively by 1.14% for the risk of stunting, by 1.97 % for the risk of … households is an important transmission channel through which child fostering improves the nutritional health of children. This …
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Purpose - This study sets out to determine the effect of employment security on moonlighting in Ghana as a means to inform policy on enforcing issues of employment security. Design/methodology/approach – The paper follows the work of Shishko and Rostker (1976) in using the GLSS6 data by...
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The literature has not sufficiently engaged in the emergence and expansion of the phenomenon of slave trade. This article estimates whether or not slave trade affects human trafficking using an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) with standard errors that are consistent with heteroscedasticity. The...
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The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the policy debate from growth to 'quality of growth' (QG). We explore a new dataset on QG by the IMF and classify 93 developing countries for the period 1990-2011 in terms of Hopefuls,...
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