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    Missing in action: teacher and medical provider absence in developing countries

    Development Education Programme, World Bank, 2005
    Absenteeism of teachers and medical personnel is widely cited as a barrier to improvement of education and health outcomes in developing countries, especially in South Asia. But how severe is the problem of absent teachers–and in health care, absent medical personnel?
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    Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

    University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
    Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.
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    Speaking out: how the voices of poor people are shaping the future

    Oxfam, 2009
    This paper from Oxfam focuses on how the "right to be heard" concept can strengthen public participation  in policy making and accountability. Recommendations for those upporting poor and marginalised people to lobby for changes in their situation include:
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    Portés disparus: répondre à l’absentéisme des enseignants

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    L’absentéisme des enseignants est un obstacle majeur à l’amélioration de l’éducation dans certains pays en développement, en particulier en Asie du Sud. Les gouvernements consacrent souvent 70 à 90 pour cent du budget de fonctionnement de l’éducation aux salaires des enseignants, sans le moindre retour sur un tel investissement.
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    Missing in action: Addressing teacher absenteeism

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Getting teachers to come to work is a major barrier to improving education outcomes in some developing countries, especially in South Asia. Governments often spend 70 to 90 percent of their recurrent education budgets on teacher salaries, without the most basic of returns.
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    Global Information Society 2007

    Global Information Society Watch, 2007
    The Global Information Society Watch 2007 report - the first in a series of annual reports- looks at state of the field of information and communication technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels and particularly how policy impacts on the lives of people living in developing countries.
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    Can transgenic seeds repeat the success of the ‘Green Revolution’?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    New technology and crop varieties reduced poverty in much of Asia and Latin America, and some parts of Africa, during the Green Revolution. However, from 1985 this progress slowed. Can new research into transgenic crops revive poverty reduction through agricultural technology?
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    Educational equity and public policy: comparing results from 16 countries

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2007
    The right to education has been recognised by the international community for the last half century and has led to increasing interest in the equity of countries’ education systems.
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    Missing in action: teacher and health worker absence in developing countries

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2005
    This paper presents the results of teacher and health worker absenteeism in primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru, and Uganda.Main findings from the study include:averaging across the countries, about 19 percent of teachers and 35 percent of health workers were absentin India, one quarter of government primary school teachers were absent f
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    Time to tackle corruption in education

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In some developing countries massive amounts of funds transferred from ministries of education to schools are leaked. Bribes and payoffs in teacher recruitment and promotion and selling of exam papers can bring the teaching profession into disrepute. Illegal payments for school entrance and other hidden costs help explain low enrolment and high drop-out rates.

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