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  • Journal articles
    INFORMAL SECTOR URBAN AREAS MANPOWER RECURRENT EDUCATION INCOME GENERATION

    Education and earnings in urban West Africa

    Using a series of comparable labor force surveys in urban West Africa, we estimate the
    private returns to education among representative samples of workers in seven economic

    Published date
    Friday, January 2, 2009 - 05:00
  • Journal articles
    TAXATION Economics TOBACCO CONTROL PUBLIC HEALTH HEALTH POLICY

    Tobacco tax yardstick : does it work?

    Tobacco tax yardstick is the recommendation to have tax component between two-thirds and four-fifths of the total retail cost.

    Published date
    Saturday, March 2, 2013 - 05:00
  • Journal articles
    RANGELANDS WOMEN WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT DROUGHT DROUGHT RESISTANCE FODDER GRAZING ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION SOIL EROSION KNOWLEDGE SHARING

    Tackling degradation together : women’s groups in Sudan

    Eight women of the town of As-Subagh took the initiative to improve their community’s fodder production, while helping to restore degraded lands fenced off in their area.

    Published date
    Sunday, December 2, 2012 - 05:00
  • Journal articles
    WOMEN'S HEALTH GENDER DISCRIMINATION HEALTH PRIORITIES REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH HUMAN RIGHTS HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES

    Commentary : sexual health and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa; progress or backlash?

    While feminist movements have secured legal reforms that support gender equality in civil codes in Morocco, Jordan and Egypt, and in civil and penal codes in Turkey, sexuality and gender have become subjects of intense political and social struggl

    Published date
    Friday, January 2, 2015 - 05:00