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Why merely fixing schools will not bring back [sic] children to classrooms
31 October 2017

This article by Vipul Vivek explores when and why children discontinue education, drawing on findings from a Young Lives working paper titled 'Diverging Pathways: When and Why Children Discontinue Education in India' by Renu Singh and Protap Mukherjee, available

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India's top court rules sex with an underage wife is rape
24 October 2017

Reuters reports on a Supreme Court ruling in India on underage sexual relations within a marriage.
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Almost 75% of all children are subjected to violence each year, research finds
26 September 2017

In this article, editor Rebecca Ratcliffe (Global Development, The Guardian online) draws on findings from the Kno
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Surviving without thriving – but all is not lost for the world's 'stunted' children
7 September 2017

As part of The Guardian online's Global Development First 1000 days focus, editor Lucy Lamble featured Young Lives nutrition research and findings that

A Muslim girl in the village of Jaisinghpura in the northern state of Haryana, India, on June 2. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
Child Brides Are on the Rise in India's Towns and Cities, Report Finds
2 June 2017

The number of underage girls being married off in India’s urban areas is rising, according to a joint report from the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights and  Young Lives.
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Adolescence is a critical window to combat stunting
21 March 2017

In this blog Paul Dornan of Young Lives and Frances Mason of Save the Children  describe some of their discussions around nutrition during adolescence.
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Still learning about early learning in Ethiopia
23 February 2017

In this blog for the Global Education Monitoring Report, Young Lives education researcher Jack Rossiter describes recent ECD approaches in Ethiopia and highlights that w
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Education access problem ‘is poverty, not gender’
12 January 2017

This article by Times Higher Education, highlights recent research from Cambridge’s Faculty of Education, which shows educational inequalities concerning poverty are far greater than those regardin
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Why child marriage isn’t an easy win for campaigners
11 October 2016

In this blog for Thomson Reuters Foundation News, Alula Pankhurst describes some of the latest findings from Young Lives research on child marriage in Ethiopa.
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Ethiopia’s young men: Between hope and a hard place
12 September 2016

This blog for New Internationalist by Nikki van der Gaag reflects on a recent Young Lives paper by her and Gina Crivello; Ethiopia has invested m

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