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Meet 17 girls from five countries who have become mothers while still children. Their captivating stories provide a unique insight into their dreams challenges and great strength. Their stories are accompanied by beautiful photos taken by acclaimed photographer Pieter ten Hoopen whose point of departure is the traditional family photo. HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark has written the introduction of the book sharing her keen interest in the lives of women around the world.

The study explores housing affordability challenges and existing policy instruments for improving housing affordability in the regions covered by UNECE and presents examples of "good practices" in improving housing affordability among countries and cities. The study focuses on four topics namely: housing governance and regulation; access to finance and funding; access and availability of land for housing construction; and Climate-neutral housing construction and renovation.

The present publication is a component of the United Nations Statistics Division initiative for strengthening countries methodological and operational foundation for industrial statistics. Although this publication makes recommendations for industrial statistics many elements of its recommendations like those for the definition and delineation of statistical units and its guidance on a data-collection strategy and data compilation practices are generally applicable to the development of an integrated economic statistics system for business statistics in general with a view to collecting compiling and reporting basic economic data across economic activities in the most cost-efficient manner consistent with macroeconomic statistics. This publication is designed to provide a comprehensive methodological framework for the collection and reporting of industrial statistics in all countries irrespective of the level of development of their statistical systems.