Reducing Child Marriage in India: A Model to Scale Up Results

Debanita Chatterjee, Shanmuga Priya T., Puja Minni and Jyotsna Jha

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Abstract: This report is the result of efforts to develop strategies to accelerate the decline of child marriage in India. It breaks new conceptual ground and applies a broad social policy and governance framework to the reduction of child marriage. The report highlights the need for context-specific strategies that take into consideration the pattern and prevalence rate of child marriage in a given location, as well as the social, cultural, economic and political forces and dynamics that determine the age at which girls get married.

Keywords: child marriage; reduction of child marriage; scaling-up model; Patterns and trends of child marriage; Highest education; Sibling and cross marriages; Communal relationships; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-03
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