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Domestic violence laws and women’s unmet need for family planning: Quasi-experimental evidence from Africa

Reproductive Health
Background Approximately 164 million women report an unmet need for family planning globally. This has far-reaching consequences for the health of women and their children.
Pragya Bhuwania, Amy Raub, Aleta Sprague, Alfredo Martin, Bijetri Bose, Rachel Kidman, Jody Heymann   +6 more
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Harmonized food consumption dataset by food category and acquisition source for Sub-Saharan African countries

Scientific Data
Household consumption is a key measure of well-being in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where agriculture remains the primary livelihood, and food represents a substantial share of household total consumption expenditures.
Amaka P. Nnaji, Didier Yelognisse Alia, Ahana Raina, C. Leigh Anderson   +3 more
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The long-term effect of COVID-19 policy stringency on consumer food demand quantities in Switzerland

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
This is the first study investigating the effect of COVID-19 policy stringency on consumer food demand for the years 2020 and 2021. In particular, we compared food demand in periods with strict COVID-19 policies to food demand in periods with less strict
Christian Ritzel, Gabriele Mack, Dela-Dem Doe Fiankor   +2 more
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Who, Where, Why and When? Using Smart Card and Social Media Data to Understand Urban Mobility

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019
This study describes the integration and analysis of travel smart card data (SCD) with points of interest (POIs) from social media for a case study in Shenzhen, China.
Yuanxuan Yang, Alison Heppenstall, Andy Turner, Alexis Comber   +3 more
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Mind the gap? The persistence of pathological discourses in urban regeneration policy [PDF]

, 2010
Urban regeneration policy has historically framed policy problems using a discourse that pathologises areas and spatial communities. Since 2001 in England, and 2002 in Scotland a structural change in policy has occurred where citywide partnerships are ...
Atkinson R., Bailey N., Carley M., Clarke J., Dabinett G., Etzioni A., Fairclough N., Fairclough N., Fairclough N., Fischer F., Fischer F., Foucault M., Furbey R. A., Gill A. M., Hastings A., Imrie R., Johnstone C., Kearns A., Kochis B., Levitas R., Levitas R., McCrone D., Peter Matthews, Putnam R., Said E., van Dijk T. A., Watt P., Whitehead M., Yanow D.   +28 more
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Navigating New Beginnings: A Study of State-Level Grant Funding Support for K-12 Refugee Education

Social Sciences
In 2022, the federal government initiated two grant programs geared to enhance education specifically for Afghan and Ukrainian populations: the Afghan Refugee School Impact and Support to Schools supplements, both part of the Refugee School Impact (RSI ...
Emily R. Crawford, Juan José Reyes, Oksana Kozlova, Lisa Dorner   +3 more
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Analysis of Climate Policy Targets under Uncertainty [PDF]

, 2009
and PDF report are also available on the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change website (http://globalchange.mit.edu/).Although policymaking in response to the climate change is essentially a challenge of risk management, most ...
Forest, Chris Eliot, Jacoby, Henry D., Kicklighter, David W., Melillo, Jerry M., Paltsev, Sergey, Prinn, Ronald G., Reilly, John M., Sarofim, Marcus C., Schlosser, C. Adam, Sokolov, Andrei P., Wang, Chien, Webster, Mort D.   +11 more
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Assessing the Relationship Between the Implementation of Compulsory Education Laws and Girls’ School Attendance in Twenty-Seven Countries

Social Sciences
Achieving education for all and gender parity in education is central to Sustainable Development Goal 4. However, there are still an estimated 78 million primary-school-age children and 64 million lower-secondary-school-age children. Half of these out-of-
Bijetri Bose, Alfredo Martin, Amy Raub, Jody Heymann   +3 more
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Discourse network analysis: policy debates as dynamic networks [PDF]

, 2016
Political discourse is the verbal interaction between political actors. Political actors make normative claims about policies conditional on each other. This renders discourse a dynamic network phenomenon.
Leifeld, Philip
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American Global Population Policy: an Ethical Analysis [PDF]

, 1975
Roll 43b. Repository (Col.Ch.) / Tre Ore (Col.Ch.). Image 47 of 59. (2 April, 1953; 3 April, 1953) [PHO 1.43b.21]The Boleslaus Lukaszewski (Father Luke) Photographs contain more than 28,000 images of Saint Louis University people, activities, and events ...
Dyck, Arthur
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