Ending Early Marriages Can 'Save Tanzania Billions'

If efforts to end child marriages and reduce fertility rates were fruitful, the country would generate almost U.S.$5 billion in annual benefits in 15 years, says the World Bank.

A 12-year-old Kenyan girl rescued from child marriage by police and charity workers (file photo).

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