- Child health statistics from Ethiopia
- T. Alemu; G. Asgedom; J. Liebenberg; A. Mekonnen; J. Seager; B. Tefera; T. Woldehanna / Young Lives, 2003
- Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it. In each of four developing...
- Statistics on the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in Vietnam
- T. Tuan; P.T. Lan; T. Harpham; N.T. Huong; T.D. Thach; B. Tod; T.T. Dua; N.T.V. Ha / Young Lives, 2003
- Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it. In each of four developing...
- Child labour more common in land-rich households
- S. Bhalotra; C. Heady / Economics department, University of Bristol, 2003
- This paper is motivated by the observation that children in land-rich households are often more likely to be in work than the children of land-poor households. The vast majority of working children in developing countries are i...
- How the University of Namibia reaches the goal of lifelong learning through ICTs
- T. Dodds / E-learning, Development Gateway, 2003
- This paper asks: how do universities maintain their long-established role of being the apex of national education systems through the maintenance of the highest standards of academic excellence, while meeting the growing pressure for ...
- Gender differences in school enrolment in India: maternal education, gender discrimination and the need to work
- S. Pal / Cardiff Business School, Economics Section, 2003
- This paper considers several possible causes of observed gender differences in child schooling in the Indian states, including differential returns to schooling, household resource constraint, nature of parental preferences and also c...
- Education for all children in conflict zones: offering psychological, social and safety benefits
- S. Nicolai; C. Triplehorn / Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2003
- This paper argues for a reappraisal of the position of education in emergency programming. It explores the links between education and the wider protection needs of the children it assists. It suggests that, as protection in conflict ...
- Justifying increased safety net expenditures or policy reforms through yardstick competition
- T. Besley; R. Burgess; I. Rasul / World Bank, 2003
- In order to assess how much governments should spend on social programs generally, or safety nets in particular, this paper assumes that what governments can potentially do in terms of spending on social programs is given by what gove...
- Continuing discrepancies between curricula and professional requirements in wildlife management?
- P. Scholte / Eldis Gender Resource Guide, 2003
- This paper reviews developments in African wildlife management and the resulting training requirements and organization of the colleges. It assesses how Garoua Wildlife College in Cameroon has adapted its curriculum to respond to chan...
- WDR focuses on making services work for the poor
- World Development Report, World Bank, 2003
- This issue of the WDR focuses on policies for improving the access of poor people to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity. The report focuses on the three ways in which se...
- Does investing in education reduce poverty? Evidence from Ghana, Uganda and South Africa
- Simon Appleton; Geeta Kingdon; John Knight; Måns Söderbom; Francis Teal / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Three broad facts about education have emerged from recent research. Firstly, almost universally education is found to lift people out of poverty. Secondly, when a comparison is made between investing in education and other forms of i...
- Making education in China equitable and efficient
- Shaikh I. Hossain / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Whether China becomes competitive internationally depends on the quality of its human resources. The government's priorities should be to improve the equity, efficiency, and quality of social services, as well as their financing. As C...
- Local Government and Households in Primary Education in Tanzania: Some lessons for Reform
- O. Therkildsen / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- The roles of the formal and informal involvement of local governments, local elites, teachers and households in decision making about primary education in selected rural districts are analysed, as are some of the outcomes of this invo...
- 'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?
- Simon Appleton / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
- The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a...
- Educating nomadic pastoralists is problematic: the case of Nigeria
- C. VerEecke / Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1989
- This paper examines the problem of educating nomadic pastoralists in Nigeria, which has become central and controversial during the last two years. As in much of Africa, Nigerian pastoralists have been suffering from drought, desertif...
- Livelihoods diversification in rural development
- F. Ellis / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
- Examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural...
- More, But Not Yet Better: An Evaluation of USAID’s Programs and Policies To Improve Girls’ Education
- C. O’Gara; S. Benoliel; M. Sutton; K. Tietjen / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1999
- Report based on five field studies in Guatemala, Guinea, Malawi, Nepal, and Pakistan, a country desk study (Egypt), issue-oriented research on Bolivia and Thailand, and a literature review. Five questions guided the entire proj...
- Achieving Schooling For All: Budgetary Expenditures on Education in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
- C. Colclough; S. Al-Samarrai / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
- Analyses public spending on education in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia over recent years, with a particular focus upon primary schooling. It identifies regional expenditure trends since 1980, and provides more detailed comparative...
- Increases in income inequality are not only caused by globalisation and skill-biased technologies
- A. Singh; R. Dhumale / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2000
- Changes in income distribution in advanced countries are usually attributed either to globalization (usually in the form of trade liberalization with low-wage developing countries), or/and to a skill-biased technology. A growing conse...
- Health and education subsidies in Africa favour the better off
- F. Castro-Leal; J. Dayton; L. Demery; K. Mehra / World Bank Research Observer, 1999
- This paper, published by the World Bank Research Observer (WBRO), examines the effectiveness of public social spending on education and health care in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, and Tanza...
- Public higher education weakened by international organisations and the private sector
- S.M. Naseem; S.K. Qureshi; R. Siddiqui / Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Pakistan, 1999
- The paper focuses on the universities and research institutes directly involved in higher education and training of economists. Recent trends indicate a preference for the subject of Economics. Furthermore, the quality of teaching and...
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- International Journal of Information and Education Technology (IJIET)
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- UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE)
- UNESCO-IHE is an international institute for water education.
- Centre for Development Finance (CDF)
- The Centre for Development Finance focuses on improving the delivery of public goods that contribute to inclusive social and economic opportunity in India.
- Centre for International Education, University of Sussex (CIE)
- The Centre for International Education (CIE) provides a focal point for work on education and development in low-income countries.
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