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This case study highlights the steps taken to advance gender equality, female empowerment, and capacity building by the Lilongwe Water Board, a statutory corporation with responsibility for water and sewerage services in Lilongwe City, Malawi. The Lilongwe Water Board provides water services to...
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"The initial occupational placements of male immigrants in the U.S. labor market vary significantly by country of origin even when education and other factors are taken into account. Does the heterogeneity persist over time? Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study...
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"Many educators and policymakers have argued for lenient grade promotion policy - even automatic promotion - in developing country settings where grade retention rates are high. The argument assumes that grade retention discourages persistence or continuation in school and that the promotion of...
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to high levels of youth disengagement and insufficient jobs growth. Youth constitute more than half of the labor force … over the possible duplication of policies and programming, particularly in relation to out-of-school youth, and technical …
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Argentina's youth, 6.7 million between the ages of 15 and 24, are an important, but to a certain extent untapped … percent) are exposed to risk factors that are correlated with eventual risky behaviors. This totals 46 percent of youth at … some form of risk. Today's youth cohort is the country's largest ever and it's largest for the foreseeable future. If …
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