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

Desmond, Chris, Kathryn Watt, Sara Naicker, Jere Behrman and Linda Richter. 2023. Girls’ schooling is important but insufficient to promote ...

Linda Richter Linda Richter

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Trauma, vulnerability and mental health problems in South Africa and Sweden

Globally, mental illness is more responsible for extreme distress than poverty or unemployment, and, to compound the problem, mental illness interacts with poverty and unemployment in socially and economically impactful ways that create reinforcing cycles.

Ulf Gerdtham Ulf Gerdtham

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An Excluding Consensus? Grants and Loan Schemes and the need for equitable access to Higher Education Globally

Higgins, John. 2019. An Excluding Consensus? Grants and Loan Schemes and the need for equitable access to Higher Education Globally. Oslo: N...

John Higgins John Higgins
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