Category: Reports
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2013 Corruption Perception Index
Each year, Transparency International conducts surveys of how citizens perceive corruption in the public sector of their countries. It ranks countries from 1 (Denmark, cleanest) to 175 (Afghanistan, perceived as most corrupt – there are 177 countries but a few are tied). You can see the results for all countries by clicking here, where you…
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Gender Data: Getting It Right
Above: Deborah Rubin, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Terri Raney at IFPRI I am guilty of having quoted the line – “African women farmers grow 80% of the food while owning only 1% of the land. It turns out that neither of those numbers is backed up by any evidence — and, in fact, the lack…
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2013 Report on Children and AIDS
Unicef reports that “More progress has been made between 2009 and 2012 than during the previous decade, according to 2012 data, which show a 35 per cent decline in new HIV infections among children under the age of 15 years, compared with 2009.2 In 2012, coverage of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) for pregnant women living with HIV…
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State of World Population 2013
The 2013 report from UNFPA focuses on preventing adolescent pregnancy. Not unlike our own experience, it underscores the closely interlinked underlying conditions that must be addressed to achieve this: Child marriage, Gender inequality, Obstacles to human rights, Poverty, Sexual violence and coercion 19%, National policies restricting access to contraception, age-appropriate sexuality education, Lack of access to education and reproductive health services, and underinvestment in…