Global and Regional Trends in Child Marriage
Nguyen and Wodon suggest that better measurement of child marriage can be obtained by adopting the techniques used for the measurement of poverty. The objective of this article is to use that approach to provide estimates of global and regional trends over time in the extent of child marriage – not...
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okr-10986-235312021-04-23T14:04:15Z Global and Regional Trends in Child Marriage Nguyen, Minh Cong Wodon, Quentin child marriage child marriage gap global trends Nguyen and Wodon suggest that better measurement of child marriage can be obtained by adopting the techniques used for the measurement of poverty. The objective of this article is to use that approach to provide estimates of global and regional trends over time in the extent of child marriage – not only its incidence, but also what we refer to as the child marriage gap and the squared child marriage gap, two measures that take into account how young girls are when they marry. 2015-12-28T21:06:15Z 2015-12-28T21:06:15Z 2015-10-23 Journal Article The Review of Faith & International Affairs 1557-0274 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23531 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research |
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Nguyen and Wodon suggest that better measurement of child marriage can be obtained by adopting the techniques used for the measurement of poverty. The objective of this article is to use that approach to provide estimates of global and regional trends over time in the extent of child marriage – not only its incidence, but also what we refer to as the child marriage gap and the squared child marriage gap, two measures that take into account how young girls are when they marry. |
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Global and Regional Trends in Child Marriage |
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Global and Regional Trends in Child Marriage |
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Global and Regional Trends in Child Marriage |
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Global and Regional Trends in Child Marriage |
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Global and Regional Trends in Child Marriage |
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global and regional trends in child marriage |
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