This brief has provided a basic profile
of child marriage in Zambia. Measures of child marriage are
high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children
is 28.5...
Type: BriefReport#: 106423Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
This note considers the most relevant
literature and contends that, even if the ‘middle income
trap’ is myth, it provides impetus for policy makers to
reassess their...
Type: BriefReport#: 104230Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Larson,Gregory Michael ;
Loayza,Norman V. ;
Woolcock,Michael
This brief has provided a basic profile
of early childbirth in Burkina Faso. Measures of early
childbirth are high. The share of women ages 18-22 who had
their first...
Type: BriefReport#: 105911Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Wodon,Quentin T. ;
Male,Chata
This brief has provided a basic profile
of child marriage in Bangladesh. Measures of child marriage
are still high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as
children...
Type: BriefReport#: 105908Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Malé, Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
This brief has provided a basic profile
of early childbirth in Ethiopia. Measures of early
childbirth are high. The share of women ages 18-22 who had
their first child...
Type: BriefReport#: 105923Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Wodon,Quentin T. ;
Male,Chata
Learning-by-doing and adaptation happens
all the time at the frontline, and as a means of survival.
So how can it be reflected across the sector as a whole -
from individual...
Type: BriefReport#: 154674Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Ornemark,Charlotte
The Poverty Mapping in the European
Union (EU) project, an initiative of the World Bank and
European Commission (EC) in cooperation with EU member
states, has developed...
The European Commission and the World
Bank, in cooperation with individual EU member states, have
developed a set of high resolution poverty maps. The greater
geographic...
This note is based on an assessment
undertaken by the World Bank following a request by the
Government of Paraguay. The study evaluated agricultural
risks, proposing...
This brief has provided a basic profile
of child marriage in Burkina Faso. Measures of child
marriage are high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married
as children...
Type: BriefReport#: 105910Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Malé, Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
Measures of child marriage are high in
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The share of women
ages 18-22 who married as children is 35.9 percent, but it
has declined...
Type: BriefReport#: 105918Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
This brief has provided a basic profile
of child marriage in Guinea. Measures of child marriage are
high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children
is 51.1...
Type: BriefReport#: 105926Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
This brief has provided a basic profile
of child marriage in Ghana. Measures of child marriage are
very high. The share of women aged 18-22 who married as
children is...
Type: BriefReport#: 105924Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Malé,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
The latest MENA Quarterly Economic Brief
estimates growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Region to fall short of expectation at 2.6 percent in 2015,
about...
Type: BriefReport#: 105730Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Mottaghi,Lili
This brief has provided a basic profile
of early childbirth in Zambia. Measures of early childbirth
are high. The share of women ages 18-22 who had their first
child...
Type: BriefReport#: 106424Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
Measures of child marriage are high in
Uganda. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as
children is 36.5 percent, but it has declined over time. The
share of girls...
Type: BriefReport#: 106421Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
Located in eastern India, Bihar is a low
income state (LIS) with around 104 million people. According
to the Government of India (GoI), over half the population
is Below...
In Ghana, the agricultural sector
remains the backbone of the economy. Nearly two decades of
productivity growth, beginning in the early 1990s, has
helped put Ghana...
Type: BriefReport#: 104127Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Choudhary,Vikas ;
Christienson, Garry ;
D'Alessandro,Stephen Paul ;
Josserand,Henri P.
In Indonesia, researchers evaluated a
project to expand access to early childhood services in the
country’s poorest areas by giving communities grants for
preschools...
Type: BriefReport#: 105171Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Marcus,Aliza
Measures of early childbirth are high in
Mauritania. The share of women ages 18-22 who had a child
before 18 is 19.8 percent, but it has decreased over time.
The share...
Type: BriefReport#: 106406Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Male,Chata ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
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