Barriers to education
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- Expensive funerals cause household hardship
- ( A. Case;A. Menendez / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2009)
- In Southern Africa, funerals are generally considered an individual’s most important rite of passage and households may spend the equivalent of a year’s income for an adult’s funeral...
- Impacts of parental death on the schooling and well-being of children in Ethiopia
- ( R. Himaz / Young Lives , 2009)
- This paper investigates whether the death of a parent during middle childhood affects child schooling and subjective well-being (SWB) in Ethiopia. The data comes from two rounds of the Young Lives sur...
- How to address school development issues through activities and training
- ( Educational Quality Improvement Program, USAID , 2008)
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This toolkit outlines activities and training methods to address problems that affect school attendance and development in Cambodia. The toolkit is organised into a website developed to engage scho...
- Developing good practices to help eliminate child labour by consolidating education
- ( M. Jankanish / International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour , 2007)
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This publication includes a broad selection of ILO-IPEC's “good practices” in using education as a key tool to eliminate child labour which will hopefully inspire, motivate and guide th...
- The Safe School Program to help reduce gender-based violence in Malawi
- ( E. Kadzamira;C. Moleni / Eldis Document Store , 2008)
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The Safe Schools Program (Safe Schools) is a five-year project under the U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade, Office of Women in Developmen...
What are the key problems in educational improvement in Gansu?
- ( E. Hannum;P. Kong / World Bank Publications , 2007)
- This report analyses a survey of rural children and their families, schools, and teachers in the Gansu province of China. It seeks to provide a portrait of schools serving rural communities in northwe...
- The effect of cocaine reduction policies on child labour, Peru
- ( A. Dammert / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn , 2007)
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What impact do coca eradication policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andes have on households? This paper examines the shift in the production of coca leaves...
- The positive impact of a scholarship programme on school enrolment for girls in Cambodia
- ( D. Filmer;N. Schady / World Bank Publications , 2006)
- This paper evaluates the impact of a Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) programme that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the first year...
- How can drop out rates in schools be reduced?
- ( Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network , 2007)
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This document investigates the issues behind drop out rates in Albania, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Mongolia, Slovakia and Tajikistan. It specifically aims to answer the questions who are the children that...
- Teacher absence a factor in access to education
- ( S. Ghuman;C. B. Lloyd / Population Council, USA , 2007)
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School access can be determined not only by physical proximity of schools but also by other "barriers to use". This paper argues that teacher absence creates additional “barriers to...
