Preventing More 'Missing Girls' : A Review of Policies to Tackle Son Preference
In parts of Asia, the South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, resulting in the excess mortality of girls and skewing child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, an estimated 1.8 million girls go “missing” because of the wide...
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2021
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36094 |