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Nigeria History of Modern Medical Services - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Na... - 0 views

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    Before the British colonial government set up hospitals for native Nigerians, Catholic Missions not only set up hospitals but were responsible for the training and education of nurses while many doctors were educated in Europe. The British government set up hospitals but initially these hospitals were only for Europeans, It was not until after WWII that the British government tried to expand medical and hospital access to native Nigerians and medical education. After Nigerian independence a federal republic was set up and ownership of health facilities is distributed between the federal government, the states, and local governments. States hold the largest share of hospital beds at 43% and the federal and local governments at 13% and 11% respectively.
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http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/46581300.pdf - 0 views

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  • jacquelinec56 on 27 Dec 15
     
    This article discusses the history of brazil's educational system and its effectiveness. It also goes into modern reform.
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Gender Scripts and Age at Marriage in India - 0 views

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  • Rational decision making theories imply that parents respond to economic incentives and constraints as they choose optimal marriage timing for their daughters. In different parts of Asia, availability of wage work for women increases the returns from daughters and may lead to delayed marriage
  • esearch on Indian labor markets has documented a high degree of underemploymen
  • mong women aged 15 and older, only 16% of rural women and 11% of urban women claim wage work as their primary activity.
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  • A number of studies have recorded a sharp increase in dowry expectations, with a dowry consisting of both cash and expensive household goods,
  • Increased expenses associated with a daughter’s marriage may lead to postponement of marriage as parents struggle to accumulate resources in order to provide appropriate dowry and pay for the wedding (
  • we expect that in areas where women have a greater role in making decisions about different aspects of their lives,
  • women’s empowerment is negatively associated with age at marriage. Age at marriage may also be related to women’s autonomy through another channel: because younger brides are more likely to be docile, in areas where parents-in-law seek to limit women’s power in the household, they may have a preference for younger brides.
  • a woman’s autonomy may be manifest through her control of major resources, such as having her name
  • on a housing title or rental agreement, as well as through control of minor resources, such as having cash on hand for household expenditures. A number of studies have also suggested that the ability to m
  • Results suggest large differences in age at marriage by education, with women with higher secondary and college education marrying 4.9 years later than less-educated women. While the causal direction of this relationship is far from clear (obtaining a higher education could delay marriage, or delayed marriage may provide a greater opportunity to complete one’s education),
  • contrast, the neighboring state of Haryana has an average age of marriage that is 2 years lower, and about 30% of women get married by age 16. These states have similar educational and economic profiles, which is not surprising given that Haryana was carved out of Punjab. However, they differ in cultural traditions. Punjab contains a large number of Sikhs, and even Hindus are influenced by Sikh culture. Haryana shares cultural traditions with the central plains, so the two states differ substantially in the way gender is articulated.
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http://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR293/FR293.pdf - 0 views

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    Nigeria Marriage and Sexuality -Median Age of Marriage for women is 18 -gradually increased from 17 (on average for women in their 40s) to 19 (women now) -women who live in urban areas tend to marry 4 years later than women who live in rural areas (20 compared to 16) -women with secondary education also on average marry 6 years later (15.5 to 21.5) -wealthy women (top 1/5) tend to marry 8 years later (at 23.2) than poor women (bottom 1/5) Tangent: -around 25% of men have more than one wife
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http://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FRIND3/FRIND3-Vol1AndVol2.pdf - 0 views

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    National Family Health Service report: India pg 164-165
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rebeccal/RebeccaLThornton/Home_files/JensenThornton.2003... - 0 views

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    Back ground to early marriage age in developing countries
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JSTOR: Signs, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Winter 2004), pp. 325-355 - 0 views

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  • hy education should be thought to be a key for women
  • cond, I shall describe the sources of resistance to educating women and argue that objections from the side of traditionalism are misplaced and incoherent.
  • Development theorists who focus only on maximizing economic growth, assuming that growth alone will provide for other central human needs, are very likely to shortchange female education
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  • f there was a time when illiteracy was not a barrier to employment, that time has passed. The nature of the world economy is such that illiteracy condemns a woman (or man) to a small number of low‐skilled types of employment. With limited employment opportunities, a woman is also limited in her options to leave a bad or abusive marriage
  • hus states such as Gujarat and Haryana that have done well in fostering economic growth often do quite poorly in basic education,7 and Kerala, whose economy has not grown well, can boast 99 percent literacy for both boys and girls in adolescence, against a background of 35 percent female and 65 percent male literacy for the nation as a whole.
  • growth‐oriented policies do not improve the quality of education, particularly female education,
  • While in the family, an illiterate woman has a low bargaining position for basic resources such as food and medical care because her exit options are so poor and her perceived contribution to the success of the family unit is low.16 Where women have decent employment options outside the home, the sex ratio tends to reflect a higher valuation of the worth of female life.
  • No single factor has a larger impact on the birth rate: for as women learn to inform themselves about the world they also increasingly take charge of decisions affecting their own lives. And as their bargaining position in the family improves through their marketable skills, their views are more likely to prevail.23
  • specially important is the role that female education has been shown to have in controlling population growth.
  • This is the region of India in which child marriage (illegal) is the most common. Large groups of girls are married off at ages four or six. Although they do not live with their husbands until age twelve or so, their course in life is set. Their parents must keep them indoors or watch over them constantly to guard their purity, so that they can not really play outside like little boys. In addition, the parents know that these girls will not support them in their old age—they already “belong” to another family. So their development and health are typically neglected.
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  • d take the education money without establishing schools or teachers are corrupt and take government money without showing up.
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http://www.tandfonline.com.sci-hub.io/doi/pdf/10.1080/00220380412331322741 - 0 views

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    This article gives both economic and social reasons for the education gap between girls and boys in India. This article finds that wealthier families send their daughters to school in higher percentages than poor families because they do not need the money gained from their labor or for their daughters to spend time doing household chores.
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http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=F6FA76D2675B1E93C68438B5BEDEBB... - 0 views

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    This article gives the history of government family planning policies from the 1960s-early 2000s.
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Violence Beats Politics As a Third Intifadeh Looms In Israel | TIME - 0 views

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  • jacquelinec56 on 17 Oct 15
     
    this article provides both historical context and present day circumstances without losing the reader with too much detail. I believe that the willingness of palestinians to risk their lives to rebel (but not in an organized fashion) really shows how chaotic and dire their situation is.
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Riots Break Out in India Over a Dominant Caste's Attempt to Gain 'Backward' Status - 4 views

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    This article discusses protests against a specific use of quota's to insure that people of lower-caste receive a certain percent of college admissions and government jobs in Gujarat.
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