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🇿🇦 South Africa
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DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, University of the Witwatersrand
Residencies at STIAS
2023 2nd Semester
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We’ve come a long way, baby! - STIAS Public lecture by Linda Richter

Register here by 5 September 2023 Linda Richter, Professor in the Centre of Excellence in Human Development at the University of the Witwatersrand and STIAS Fellow will present a public lecture with the title: We’ve come a long way, baby!
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We’ve come a long way baby! Birth to Thirty - STIAS Public lecture by Linda Richter

Insights from Africa’s largest and longest-running birth-cohort study During seven weeks in 1990, shortly after Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster Prison a free man, 3273 children were born in Soweto and Johannesburg.

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Girls’ schooling is important but insufficient to promote equality for boys and girls in childhood and across the life course

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