Disability in Bangladesh: Landmark Survey of 155,000 People Maps a Hidden National Burden
A new analysis of 155,025 people from Bangladesh's 2021 National Survey on Persons with Disabilities finds a 2.79 percent national ...
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Study Reveals Household Income Needs Vary More Than Welfare Rules Assume
New research from Pusan National University shows that equivalence scales used to set welfare benefits vary with household composition, consumption ...
252 Million Young Children Face Undernutrition, Poverty, or Both, Global Study Reveals
A new Oxford study using the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index finds that 252 million children under five in developing countries ...
Street Food, Hard Numbers: What Tanzanian Vendors Reveal About Decent Work
A survey of 77 informal food vendors at Tanzania's Kigamboni Ferry Bus Stand finds strong practical skills but weak strategic ...
What Ghana’s Informal Workers Really Want From a Pension Scheme
A discrete choice experiment of 150 informal sector workers in Accra reveals that private fund management, flexible payment schedules, affordable ...
Grandparents Raise Zimbabwe’s Children: Love and Hardship in Skipped-Generation Homes
A phenomenological study of 20 children and 10 grandparent caregivers in Nkayi District, Zimbabwe, reveals that skipped-generation childhood combines deep ...
Middle East Ageing Crisis Could Become an Economic Win, Study Finds
A new cross-country study argues that rapid population ageing across the Middle East and North Africa is outpacing formal long-term ...
Cash for Mothers: Ecuador’s Flagship Anti-Poverty Programme Shows Only Modest Links to Maternal Survival
A fourteen-year nationwide analysis finds that Ecuador's Bono de Desarrollo Humano cash transfer programme effectively targeted disadvantaged cantons but was ...
Caste Traps Families in Poverty in Bangladesh, Major New Study Finds
A mixed-methods study of Dalit communities in Bangladesh finds that caste functions as a structural conversion factor that entrenches intergenerational ...
Child Marriage in India Is Falling but Still Concentrated Among the Poorest Girls
New analysis of Indian survey data shows child marriage is declining nationally but remains more than twice as common among ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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