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    Population aging in India: facts, issues, and options

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2016
    India, one of the world’s two population superpowers, is undergoing unprecedented demographic changes. Increasing longevity and falling fertility have resulted in a dramatic increase in the population of adults aged 60 and up, in both absolute and relative terms.
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    The interplay between community, household and child level influences on trajectories to early marriage in Ethiopia

    Young Lives, 2016
    Child marriage is a global concern and a priority issue for the African Union; the Ethiopian government has devised a strategy to eliminate the practice by 2025.
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    New knowledge on children and young people: a synthesis of evidence

    Overseas Development Institute, 2015
    This report synthesises insights on children and young people (CYP) from research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research.
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    The state of the World's children 2016: a fair chance for every child

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2016
    Every child has the right to health, education and protection, and every society has a stake in expanding children’s opportunities in life. Yet, around the world, millions of children are denied a fair chance for no reason other than the country, gender or circumstances into which they are born.
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    Socio-economic inequalities in maternity care under political instability: evidence From Egypt, Jordan and Yemen

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2016
    Medical care during pregnancy is crucial for protecting women from health risks during and after pregnancy, and has been consistently linked to better child health outcomes. Improving maternal health is one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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    Cash for women's empowerment? A mixed-methods evaluation of the Government of Zambia' s Child Grant Programme

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2016
    The empowerment of women, broadly defined, is an often-cited objective and benefit of social cash transfer programmes in developing countries. Despite the promise and potential of cash transfers to empower women, the evidence supporting this outcome is mixed. In addition, there is little evidence from programmes that have gone to scale in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Extending social insurance to informal workers

    Overseas Development Institute, 2016
    Informal workers face high levels of risks yet the majority are not covered by social insurance. Meanwhile, women informal workers face specific and heightened risks, yet more women than men are excluded from insurance schemes.
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    Social protection and women's empowerment

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016
    Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, safety-net oriented public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries. As such, extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women’s economic empowerment. However, to tap into this potential, more needs to be done.
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    Qualitative research on women's economic empowerment and social protection - a research guide

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016
    The FAO's Social Protection and Rural Women's Economic Empowerment research programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of th e United Nations (FAO) falls under FAO's Strategic Objective 3 of Reducing Rural Poverty and is delivered through two flagship initiatives: the Rural Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative (RWEE) and the From Protection to Production (PtoP) programme.
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    Collaborating for women’s economic, social and political empowerment: India and Africa

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    Over one third of the world’s poor reside in Africa and though over the last century African countries have made significant strides in promoting gender equity, the equality in society in terms of access and control over family, society, economic and political goods are yet to be achieved.

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