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Protecting Women and Girls from Cyber Harassment

Affoum, Nelsy Reyhanne Marikel; Santagostino … - 2025

Cyber violence against women has been rising at alarming rates in recent decades. Such acts not only harm women as individuals but have severe detrimental effects on society and the economy at large. This Brief analyzes laws from 190 economies to assess the extent and coverage of current...

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Climate shocks, migration, and labor markets : a gender analysis from West Africa

El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2025

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Climate shocks, migration, and labor markets : a gender analysis from West Africa

El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2021

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Essays on Equity, Health, and Education in Sierra Leone : Selected Challenges and Benefits

de la Fuente, Alejandro - 2024

Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a gross national income per capita of USD 510 in 2022. The country ranked near the bottom of all countries in the latest Human Development Index. Despite these low rankings, in the years since the end of the 10-year civil...

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Does Pluralism Matter for the Fulfillment of the Right to Education? Exploring New Indices

Wodon, Quentin - 2021

There is not a lot of support in the international community today for the role played by the private sector, including faith-based schools, towards achieving the fourth sustainable development goal (SDG), which calls for ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education. Yet, education...

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Measuring Education Pluralism Globally

Wodon, Quentin - 2021

In education systems that support pluralism, students or parents can choose the type of school or university they attend. Given heterogeneity in priorities for what should be taught, education pluralism has a value in itself. It may also boost schooling and learning. The fact that there is...

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Are New Secondary Schools Built Where They Are Needed Most in Uganda? Comparing Catholic with Public and Other Private Schools

Wodon, Quentin - 2020

Low income countries in sub-Saharan Africa are confronted with a major challenge in terms of expanding access to secondary education. This is also the case in Uganda. This article considers two questions. First, where should new secondary schools be built if the aim is to reduce geographic...

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Water, Electricity and the Poor : Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies?

Komives, Kristin; Vivien, Foster; Halpern, Jonathan; … - 2019

Subsidies for utility services are widespread in the water supply, sanitation, and electricity sectors. One motivation is to improve social welfare of the poor by facilitating their access to and use of such services, as well as by redistributing resources to augment their purchasing power. At...

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Water, Electricity, and the Poor : Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies?

Komives, Kristin - 2005

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A Simple Approach to Measuring the Share of Early Childbirths Likely Due to Child Marriage in Developing Countries

Wodon, Quentin; Male, Chata; Onagoruwa, Adenike - 2019

Child marriage has large negative effects on the girls who marry early and their children, as well as communities and societies as a whole. Ending child marriage is a target under the Sustainable Development Goals, but investments to delay the age at first marriage remain limited in countries...

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Implications of Demographic, Religious, and Enrollment Trends for the Footprint of Faith-Based Schools Globally

Wodon, Quentin - 2019

Faith-based schools play an important role today in the provision of education globally. Are the schools likely to continue to play such a role in the future? If so, where is that role likely to be most prominent? This paper considers these questions on the basis of long-term demographic,...

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Symposium on Catholic Schools and the Changing Global Landscape for Faith-Based Education : An Introduction

Wodon, Quentin - 2019

Despite the fact that faith-based schools serve tens of millions of students (the estimate for the Catholic Church is at 62 million students enrolled in K12 schools globally in 2016), the role of faith-based schools remains largely ignored in policy discussions. The articles and essays in this...

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