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Africa: Lost Lives, Lost Billions - the Cost of Child Marriage
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 21 November 2018
Child marriage is costing African countries at least $60 billion in lost lifetime earnings, more than what the world gives the continent in aid each year, the World Bank said on… Read more »
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