primary education
- Why mass-schooling for girls is an important determinant of fertility change
- Z. Sathar; C. Lloyd; C. Mete; M. ul Haque / Population Council, USA, 2000
- This paper tests Caldwell’s mass schooling hypothesis that the onset of the fertility transition is closely linked to the achievement of “mass formal schooling” of boys and girls. Punjab and North-west Frontier P...
- Could child labour be permanently eliminated?
- I. Ahmed / International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2000
- The main objective of this paper is to debunk some of the long standing myths about child labour and and contribute to the analytical and empirical basis for answering the policy question of whether and to what extent changes in GNP p...
- High level commitment is needed to ensure sexual violence in schools is stopped
- Human Rights Watch, 2001
- Violence against women in South African society generally is widely recognized to have reached levels among the highest in the world. The government has also recognized that violent crime, a major social issue in South Africa, poses a...
- Debt relief in Kenya must be addressed to free up resources for social service provision
- N. N. Nafula / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- This study critically reviews the education sector in Kenya and the challenges facing the sector in achieving universal primary schooling. The study argues that the introduction of cost sharing system in Kenya has resulted in h...
- Do poor girls in the Yemen and Egypt have lower educational attainment and engage in child labour?
- S. E. El-Kogali; E. A Suliman / Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
- The objective of this study is to examine the impacts of poverty on children's health status and educational attainment in Yemen and Egypt. The hypothesis is children from poor families, particularly girls have lower health status, lo...
- The importance of modifying basic education to allow for the needs of the very poor in Sudan
- A. Omar / Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
- This paper attempts to determine the level and characteristics of the child labour in Sudan. It also attempts to identify the socio-economic and demographic factors leading to the phenomenon of child labour, and investigate a key acti...
- Why is India's District Primary Education Program such a success?
- R. Pandey / Global Education Reform [World Bank], 2001
- This article discusses the sucess of a federally launched initiative within the education system in India (District Primary Education Program (DPEP)). It seeks to understand how this success has been achieved. The author points...
- The challenges facing the international community in ensuring good basic education for all
- K. Watkins / Oxfam, 2000
- Summaries of chapters Chapter 1 examines the critical role of education in human development and poverty reduction. Concludes that that role is becoming more important as globalisation and technological change increase ...
- Child labor : a review
- Christiaan Grootaert; Ravi Kanbur / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Legislation against child labor, even if it could be enforced, is not the only (or even the best) way to tackle the issue. Child labor legislation must be combined with targeted social and economic incentives (such as for schooling) t...
- Modelling factors that affect school attendence in the Phillipines
- A. Orbeta / Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
- Using a merge data set from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, (FIES), the Labor Force Survey (LFS) and the Functional Literacy and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS), this paper estimates a model of the joint decision of school attend...
- Could child labour be permanently eliminated?
- I. Ahmed / International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2000
- The main objective of this paper is to debunk some of the long standing myths about child labour and and contribute to the analytical and empirical basis for answering the policy question of whether and to what extent changes in GNP p...
- High level commitment is needed to ensure sexual violence in schools is stopped
- Human Rights Watch, 2001
- Violence against women in South African society generally is widely recognized to have reached levels among the highest in the world. The government has also recognized that violent crime, a major social issue in South Africa, poses a...
- Debt relief in Kenya must be addressed to free up resources for social service provision
- N. N. Nafula / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- This study critically reviews the education sector in Kenya and the challenges facing the sector in achieving universal primary schooling. The study argues that the introduction of cost sharing system in Kenya has resulted in h...
- Do poor girls in the Yemen and Egypt have lower educational attainment and engage in child labour?
- S. E. El-Kogali; E. A Suliman / Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
- The objective of this study is to examine the impacts of poverty on children's health status and educational attainment in Yemen and Egypt. The hypothesis is children from poor families, particularly girls have lower health status, lo...
- The importance of modifying basic education to allow for the needs of the very poor in Sudan
- A. Omar / Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
- This paper attempts to determine the level and characteristics of the child labour in Sudan. It also attempts to identify the socio-economic and demographic factors leading to the phenomenon of child labour, and investigate a key acti...
- Why is India's District Primary Education Program such a success?
- R. Pandey / Global Education Reform [World Bank], 2001
- This article discusses the sucess of a federally launched initiative within the education system in India (District Primary Education Program (DPEP)). It seeks to understand how this success has been achieved. The author points...
- The challenges facing the international community in ensuring good basic education for all
- K. Watkins / Oxfam, 2000
- Summaries of chapters Chapter 1 examines the critical role of education in human development and poverty reduction. Concludes that that role is becoming more important as globalisation and technological change increase ...
- Child labor : a review
- Christiaan Grootaert; Ravi Kanbur / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Legislation against child labor, even if it could be enforced, is not the only (or even the best) way to tackle the issue. Child labor legislation must be combined with targeted social and economic incentives (such as for schooling) t...
- Modelling factors that affect school attendence in the Phillipines
- A. Orbeta / Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
- Using a merge data set from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, (FIES), the Labor Force Survey (LFS) and the Functional Literacy and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS), this paper estimates a model of the joint decision of school attend...
- Strategies for the improvement of schooing for displaced children
- J.H. Williams / Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2001
- Most refugee camps and settlements of any duration provide access to some form of primary education. However, the quality of such programmes varies widely, with great differences in the quality of inputs provided and the attainment of...
- Kerala Research Programme on Local Development
- Developing scientific research capability in Kerala
