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Gender Gap Closing but Challenges Persist While the global Gender Gap in school enrolment is narrowing, adolescent girls continue to face serious obstacles in their progress along the education continuum. According to recent data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), drop-out rates remain...

Cereal import has played a crucial role in compensating local water deficit. A quantitative account of water deficit and cereal import relations therefore is of significance for predicting future food import demand and formulating corresponding national and international policies. On the basis of...

Evolution in approaches to improve access to education for children living in urban slums ABSTRACT: Poverty is urbanizing. After 2008, more people live in urban than rural areas of the world. While the global number of poor is on the decline, an increasing number of people live in urban slums...

As the designated custodian agency for monitoring progress towards reaching this target, UNICEF is responsible for generating periodic global estimates of child marriage. These estimates are produced primarily from nationally representative household surveys, and for a minority of countries, from...

This study critiques current management techniques of child abuse in African nations and contends that due to a lack of published research on this topic, multi-sectoral partnerships must be formed to augment the well-being of these children.

This is a TedTalk with founder of a Canadian charity in charge of supporting women in developing countries. She talks about her experience interviewing women and solutions at hand. ...

Abstract This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by looking at the available individual and household...

Insight on Poverty and Children based on World Bank data. https://ourworldindata.org/children-and-poverty-results-from-new-data How many of the world’s children live in extreme poverty? A recent study by the World Bank tries to answer this question. This is a new and insightful exercise, since World...