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Going Beyond Gender as Usual: Why and How Global HIV/AIDS Donors Can Do More for Women and Girls
Droggitis, Christina; Oomman, Nandini; Wendt, David - eSocialSciences - 2010
This brief shows how three of the biggest donors to global HIV/AIDS programs can go beyond their stated commitments to address gender inequality and more effectively combat HIV and AIDS.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671523
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493864
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Pro-Poor Growth: Illusions of Marriage and Divorce?
H, Suryanarayana M - eSocialSciences - 2010
This note seeks to show that the debate on ‘Pro-Poor Growth’ is sterile and largely academic with few policy insights.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543110
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PUDR's Submission of Suggestions to Verma Commission for Changes in Law and Procedure Regarding Violence Against Women
Manjit, D; Gupta, Asish - eSocialSciences - 2013
Legal mechanisms to achieve justice should factor in the challenges and roadblocks of its implementation, structural or otherwise, right from the stage of planning and framing the law. Law can be expected to promote justice it cannot do so in absence of its strict adherence and swift...
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Schooling and Adolescent Reproductive Behaviour in Developing Countries
Lloyd, Cynthia B. - eSocialSciences - 2008
-enrolled, (2) a review of the evidence on the links between school exit and marriage timing and (3) an assessment of the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341778
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Shariat Courts and Women’s Rights in India
Hussain, Sabiha - eSocialSciences - 2009
The main thrust of this paper is: Why should women go to these courts to settle matrimonial disputes while there are … provisions for them in secular courts? Do women face less harassment and get quick justice according to Islamic law by … approaching these courts? Who are the women who approach these courts? Should the mode of justice not it be left to the women to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543113
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Incentives in Elementary Education - do They Make a Difference
Ramachandran, Vimala; Mehrotra, Nishi; Jandhyala, Kameshwari - eSocialSciences - 2009
This study tried to bring together the experiences of different approaches to incentives followed by six NGOs in the states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Issues dealing with incentives and the hidden cost of education have been explored with a view to gaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009916
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Child Marriage: Social and Economic Linkages and Opportunities for Intervention
Gupta, Geeta Rao - eSocialSciences - 2007
The presentation shows the consequences of child marriage, how to prevent child marriage. [Power Point Presentation]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487836
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The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low-and-Middle Income Countries
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Hansen, David; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries? A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked to household demographics shows that the gender gap appears to increase with age. It is shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945217
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Populations at Risk: Other End of Youth Bulge
Priya, Lakshmi - eSocialSciences - 2011
While there is much written on the youth bulge in developing countries, little is being done to address the problems of the elderly. And yet demographically, it is this section that is showing high growth rates.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323745