Poverty and Development Working Papers series
Poverty and Development Working Papers series (ISSN 2489-5989) is published by the Poverty and Development Research Center located at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. The papers report ongoing research related to global poverty and development issues. Editorial Board: Laura Stark (Editor-in-Chief), Jelena Kärki, and Jukka Jouhki. Contact: pov-dev[at]jyu.fi
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Causes and motives of early marriage in the Gambia and Tanzania : is new legislation enough?
(University of Jyväskylä, 2017)Both The Gambia and Tanzania have high rates of under-18 marriage for girls and both also raised the legal age of marriage for girls to 18 in 2016. This ethnographic study of the urban Muslim poor in Tanzania and The ...