In Nepal, women who marry as children
have on average 15-26 percent more births over their life
time as compared to women marrying after the age of 18.
Controlling for...
Type: BriefReport#: 121576Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
Poor nutrition weakens children’s immune
systems, putting them at a greater risk of falling sick from
preventable illnesses such as pneumonia and diarrhea.
According...
Type: BriefReport#: 121583Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
The relationship between child marriage
and fertility can be due in part to the socio-economic and
cultural context in which girls who marry early tend to
live. But...
Type: BriefReport#: 121586Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
In Uganda, women who marry as children
have on average 10-24 percent more births over their life
time as compared to women marrying after the age of 18.
Controlling...
Type: BriefReport#: 121574Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
In Uganda, one in eleven children dies
before the age of five; for children born of mothers younger
than 18, the risk is higher.Controlling for socio-economic
and other...
Type: BriefReport#: 121601Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
Early childbirth contributes to the risk
of malnutrition for children, directly and indirectly. This
brief has provided estimates of the direct impact of early
childbirth...
Type: BriefReport#: 121600Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
The Global wildlife program (GWP) India
project aims to enhance the ecological integrity and
economic security of high range Indian Himalayan Ecosystem.
Turkmenistan’s population and economy
are exposed to earthquakes and floods, withearthquakes
posing the greater risk of a high impact, lower probability
event. The model...
Reforms of national customs agencies are
supported by increasingamounts of development aid. However,
there have been very fewformal evaluations of their
effectiveness....
Type: BriefReport#: 116522Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Hillberry,Russell Henry ;
Fernandes,Ana Margarida ;
Berg,Claudia N. ;
Mendoza Alcantara,Alejandra
All over the world, women have less
access to credit than men. Because of both discriminatory
property laws and unwritten social customs, women are less
likely than...
Type: BriefReport#: 116981Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Alibhai,Aly Salman ;
Achew,Mengistu Bessir ;
Coleman,Rachel Dawn ;
Khan,Anushe A. ;
Strobbe,Francesco
The systems approach for better
education results (SABER) - school feeding (SF) exercise
enabled fruitful exchanges among workshop participants, 60
actors from the public...
The relationship between child marriage
and fertility could be due in part to the socio-economic and
cultural context in which girls who marry early tend to
live. But...
Type: BriefReport#: 121602Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
In Bangladesh, about one in twenty-two
children die before the age of five; for children born of
mothers younger than 18, the risk is higher. Controlling for
socio-economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 121607Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
In Mozambique, women who marry as
children have on average 14-30 percent more births over
their life time as compared to women marrying after the age
of 18. Controlling...
Type: BriefReport#: 121621Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
In Nepal, about one in nineteen children
die before the age of five; for children born of mothers
younger than 18, the risk is higher. Controlling for
socio-economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 121625Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
Countries across the globe are
establishing new and improving existing citizen service
centers (CSCs) to better serve their citizens. This note
provides an overview...
Type: BriefReport#: 117079Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Pfeil,Helene ;
Schott,Berenike Laura ;
Agarwal,Sanjay
Bolivia faces a unique opportunity to
harness the benefits of urbanization and avoid the pitfalls
that other countries have made in the past. The urbanization
process...
Type: BriefReport#: 117252Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Trohanis,Zoe Elena ;
Aguilera,Ana Silvia ;
Tejada,Roberto
International air transport is at a
crossroads. The aviation industry's center of gravity
has moved toward the East, with main hubs in the Gulf region
and ever-increasing...
Global Value Chains (GVC) are
significant vehicles of job creation, carrying a share of 60
percent of global trade that employs around 17 million
people worldwide. This...
The relationship between child marriage
and fertility can be due in part to the socio-economic and
cultural context in which girls who marry early tend to
live. But...
Type: BriefReport#: 121580Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
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