Information Material : The Poverty Trap: Leveling the Playing Field for Young People
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filed under:
Rural Youth
— theme:
Skills for Youth, Entering the World of Work, Child Labour and Youth Employment, Most vulnerable Youth
— country:
Pakistan
— type:
Fact Sheets
The Population Council, 2005 - This brief discusses the impact of family-level poverty on the educational attainment, economic activity, and marriage patterns of Pakistani youth. Poverty has meant that 36 percent of this group has never attended school, while nearly 50 percent of boys in the lowest economic quartile start working before age 15. Youth in the poorest quartile also marry earlier and want more children than those in the richest quartile.
- Author/Editor
- Azeema Faizunnisa
- Publishing Year
- 2005
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Pak_AYP002.pdf
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