- PPPs can benefit secondary education: paper from the First Regional Conference On Secondary Education In Africa (SEIA)
- World Bank, 2003
- This paper assesses the comparative advantages of three models for Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in secondary education: Model 1: a private sector firm adopts a school or schools Model 2: the private secto...
- Progress in child labour debates and policies: what way next?
- B. Grimsrud / Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2002
- The focus of this anthology is the underlying causes and the long-term solutions to fighting child labour. The mix of analysis from field experiences and theoretical analysis is intended to show how, from both perspectives, consensus ...
- Making 'voucher schools' work for the poor: the case of Chile
- M. Carnoy; P. McEwan / School of Education, Stanford University, 2000
- This paper examines the push to expand public funding for private education in the form of vouchers or charter schools. It assesses school systems where vouchers have been implemented on a large scale, and where private school supply ...
- How to achieve all-embracing reforms in secondary education in Africa: report from the First Regional Conference on Secondary Education in Africa (SEIA)
- P. Obanya / World Bank in Africa, 2003
- This paper examines the major trends and underlying philosophies of reform efforts directed at re-inventing secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa. It considers their major focus, and more particularly the wider educational develop...
- Similarities and differences between Rwanda and Tanzania and high income countries in relation to skills development priorities
- L. Tikly; J. Lowe; M. Crossley; H. Dachi; R. Garrett; B. Mukabaranga / Department for International Development, UK, 2003
- This report is based on a study whose overall aim was to create a context-relevant knowledge base of the implications for education and training policy of globalisation in two low-income sub-Saharan African countries, namely, Rwanda a...
- The critical components of alternative education programs
- CARE International, 2003
- As part of the international literature review and national field research, this paper identifies, researches and analyses, the critical component of alternative education programs. Within the paper, the international and natio...
- Complementary education for Ghanaian children who would otherwise slip through the formal system
- CARE International, 2003
- This paper reports on a study which aims to discover what types of complimentary education services have been effective in reaching the under-served in Ghana, especially female, populations in rural deprived areas, and, what complimen...
- Increasing ICT in Asian schools: implications for teacher training and the future of education
- P.G. Cabanatan / Asia and the Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development, 2001
- This paper examines a number of ICT trends in education, educational technology and teacher training curricula. Trends in the western world, where there are more pioneering efforts in technology, are cited before focusing on developme...
- In the informal sector and small enterprises in developing and transition countries
- L.S. Lazo / Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2001
- This paper presents an assessment of the effects of globalization on the informal sector. It gives an analysis of the impact from the micro, meso and macro levels arguing that it could help in identifying the gaps in the responses to ...
- Increasing the potential of the informal sector with public intervention
- T. Vishwanath / Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2001
- This paper examines the informal sector in the light of the dynamic growth opportunities it presents. It goes beyond the traditional view of the informal sector exclusively as a safety valve for the formal sector, and argues that realizing ...
- Teacher training: a key element in improving the quality of education
- S. Mehrotra; P. Buckland / United Nations Children's Fund, 1998
- Analyses teacher remuneration levels across countries to identify the important trends which could influence access and quality. It then goes on to discuss a range of cost-effective strategies which have been employed by the state in ...
- Inequality in Income and Access to Education: A Cross-Country Analysis
- D. Checchi / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1999
- In the current debate on the relationship between inequality in income distribution and growth one of the possible link works through the access to education. After reviewing this debate, a formal model shows how the imperfection of f...
- Whether malnutrition among young children impedes their acquisition of academic skills
- P. Glewwe; H. Jacoby; E. King / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999
- This paper investigates the nutrition-learning nexus using a unique longitudinal data set, which follows a large sample of Philippine children from birth until the end of their primary education. Finds that malnourished childre...
- Lessons learned from a youth-orientated participatory development project
- G El Sawi / US Agency for International Development, 2000
- Looks at USAID / USDA 's rural youth initiative programme in Uganda and Zambia. The pilot programmes focused on three primary activities: U.S.-based Youth in Development Consultation and Study Tours: youth repres...
- A community approach to environmental education
- R.P. Grieser / US Agency for International Development, 1999
- Report on the Green COM/Mali project which aimed to increase environmental knowledge and awareness, and to mobilize communities around environmental issues. The project worked with the Ministry of Basic Education, the Ministry of the ...
- Evidence for a more market-orientated approach to education
- Z.M. Nasir; H. Nazli / Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Pakistan, 2000
- This paper examines the role of education, technical training, school quality and literacy and numeracy skills on the earnings of wage earners and salaried persons in Pakistan by using the recent data of PIHS (1995-96). The ana...
- Are school breakfast programmes an effective intervention?
- S. Cueto; M. Chinen; I. Montes; F. Andrade; M. Staeheli / Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2000
- Evaluation of the educational impact of a school breakfast program implemented in rural schools in the highlands of Peru. Specifically, measurements in weight, height, school enrollment, dropout, attendance, cognitivPreue activities, ...
- Improving Girls' Education in Guatemala
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1999
- Evaluation of USAID project. Demonstrated that improving educational quality is the best approach to enhancing girls’ participation. With Agency support, private sector actors improved scholarship programs and gave visibility to ...
- Promoting Primary Education for Girls in Pakistan
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1999
- Evaluation of USAID programme aimed at improving women’s education. Girls’ enrollments more than tripled in Balochistan and more than doubled in North-West Frontier Province. Boys’ education also benefited. The program ...
- Promoting Primary Education for Girls in Malawi
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1999
- Evaluation of USAID GABLE programme. USAID initiatives have helped increase girls’ access to education but this success, combined with implications of a national universal education policy, is burdening an already overloaded syst...
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- 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)
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