Bangladesh and Education
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- The BLDS education collection
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- Finds little evidence for the educational impact of cash transfers
- F. Reimers; C. da Silva; E. Trevino / UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2006
- This paper examines the educational effects of conditional cash transfers (CCT) for education. The study finds that based on the evidence reviewed in this paper, there is very limited support for the conclusion that CCTs are effective...
- Cutting the cost of social protection
- S.S. Ahmed / World Bank, 2005
- This paper examines the practical issues and financial costs of delivering cash benefits from source to recipients. An analysis of cost-effective mechanisms for this purpose is also presented. The study analyses three alternati...
- Bangladesh Female Stipend Programme may not be the unqualified success it is claimed to be
- J. Raynor; K. Wesson / Journal of Education for International Development, 2006
- The Female Stipend Programme (FSP), widely acclaimed as a model for achieving gender parity of enrolment, was created in 1982 in Bangladesh to help increase the enrolment and retention of girls in secondary schools, delay their marria...
- Attitudes to girls' education in Bangladesh
- J. Raynor / Oxfam, 2005
- The expansion of girls’ education in Bangladesh – and how it is perceived – is the subject of this study, with the government’s secondary Female Stipend Programme (FSP) used as a case study. There is an old ...
- Teacher and health worker absenteeism
- N. Chaudhury / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2005
- This paper presents the results of teacher and health worker absenteeism in primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru, and Uganda. Main findings from the study include: ave...
- How to ensure better quality and greater equity in secondary education
- M. Ahmed; S. R. Nath; A. Hossain; A. Md. Kalam / Campaign for Popular Education, Bangladesh, 2006
- Outlining the current state of affair in secondary education in Bangladesh in 2005, this report documents how expansion of the system has aggravated quality and inequality problems. Success of current initiatives in secondary educatio...
- Improving Asian education policies
- S. Fennell / Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006
- Although considerable progress has been made in recent years towards educational goals in Asia, much remains to be achieved. This paper draws on case studies from Bangladesh, India and Nepal to both illustrate current conditions and s...
- Labour market returns to education in Bangladesh
- M. Asadullah / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2005
- This paper estimates private labour market returns to education in Bangladesh using national level household survey data. Returns are estimated separately for rural and urban samples, males, females and private sector employees. ...
- Progress toward meeting Universal Primary Education
- A. Wils; B. Carrol; K. Barrow / Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2005
- This study employs multiple sources of data and innovative analytic tools to project when 70 poor countries, given current and historical trends, are likely to achieve the goal of universal primary education. It identifies countries w...
- Monetary policies of IMF reduce country spending on MDGs
- A.A. Marphatia; D. Archer / ActionAid International, 2005
- This paper intends to demonstrate the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) role in constraining countries from increasing public expenditure in education to meet the Education For All (EFA) goals and the education-related Millenni...
- UNICEF Bangladesh
- The UNICEF Bangladesh country office work in partnership with government ministries, non-government organisations, UN agencies and a wide range of donors in order to solve the problems facing children in Bangladesh. Specifically, UNICEF Bangladesh works on: education health and nutrition protection...
- BRAC Education Programme (BEP)
- BRAC Education Programme (BEP)
- Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
- International centre for health research based in Bangladesh
