primary education
- 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...
- Why does work affect girls schooling more than boys?
- R. Assaad / Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
- Paper addresses two main research questions. First, to what extent does work (defined both traditionally and more broadly) reduce the school attendance of children in Egypt? The analysis shows that decisions regarding school and work ...
- Child labor and schooling in Ghana
- Sudharshan Canagarajah; Harold Coulombe / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- To improve human capital and reduce the incidence of child labor in Ghana, the country's school systems should reduce families' schooling costs, adapt to the constraints on schooling in rural areas (where most children must work at le...
- Child Labor in Cote d'Ivoire: Incidence and Determinants
- C. Grootaert / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Most children in Côte d'Ivoire perform some kind of work. In rural areas, more than four of five children work, with only a third combining work with schooling. Child labor in Côte d'Ivoire increased in the 1980s because o...
- 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...
- How can intersectoral partnerships of government, business and civil society stregthen national education systems?
- K. Tietjen / US Agency for International Development, 2000
- The study provides an overview of how and to what extent the religious, business and media sectors have supported girls' education in developing countries in order to understand their role in and potential for supporting girls' educat...
- Negotiationg power and government expenditure on primary education
- T. Addison; A. Rahman / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
- Why do such inequalities in public spending prevail? Why is public spending being skewed away from the primary education sector? Concludes that: the wealth of the affluent enables them to buy favorable policies 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...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Why does work affect girls schooling more than boys?
- R. Assaad / Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
- Paper addresses two main research questions. First, to what extent does work (defined both traditionally and more broadly) reduce the school attendance of children in Egypt? The analysis shows that decisions regarding school and work ...
- Child labor and schooling in Ghana
- Sudharshan Canagarajah; Harold Coulombe / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- To improve human capital and reduce the incidence of child labor in Ghana, the country's school systems should reduce families' schooling costs, adapt to the constraints on schooling in rural areas (where most children must work at le...
- Child Labor in Cote d'Ivoire: Incidence and Determinants
- C. Grootaert / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Most children in Côte d'Ivoire perform some kind of work. In rural areas, more than four of five children work, with only a third combining work with schooling. Child labor in Côte d'Ivoire increased in the 1980s because o...
- 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...
- How can intersectoral partnerships of government, business and civil society stregthen national education systems?
- K. Tietjen / US Agency for International Development, 2000
- The study provides an overview of how and to what extent the religious, business and media sectors have supported girls' education in developing countries in order to understand their role in and potential for supporting girls' educat...
- Negotiationg power and government expenditure on primary education
- T. Addison; A. Rahman / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
- Why do such inequalities in public spending prevail? Why is public spending being skewed away from the primary education sector? Concludes that: the wealth of the affluent enables them to buy favorable policies 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- Kerala Research Programme on Local Development
- Developing scientific research capability in Kerala
