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    American Institutes for Research (AIR)

    Not-for-profit behavioral and social science research and evaluation organisation. Within the United States and internationally, AIR:
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    Helpdesk Report: Behaviour change in under 2’s

    Department for International Development, UK, 2010
    This report is on using behaviour change communication to impact positively on caring practices for children under two years of age in India. It has the following sections: Academic Literature Cochrane India specific materials Intrahealth briefs Outside Asia Other
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    Swaziland: effective delivery of public education services - discussion paper

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    Since independence in 1968, Swaziland has grappled with the same challenges in delivering effective education services, including, but not limited to: education access; increasing failure and dropout rates; a lack of qualified teachers; a lack of curriculum innovation; and slow responses to education and training changes in regional and international arenas.
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    Sstudents’ achievement in the MENA countries: the Eyneman-Loxley effect revisited using TIMSS 2007 data

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    Since the controversial finding of the Coleman Report (1966), which was that school resources had little effect on educational outcomes comparing to family background, huge literature has emerged in order to verify the above finding in countries other than the United States.
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    Does the type of higher education affect labor market outcomes? A comparison of Egypt and Jordan

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014
    In Egypt and Jordan there is a substantial mismatch between the output of the higher education system and the needs of labour market. Both demand and supply-side factors could be driving this mismatch. This paper tests a key supply-side issue, whether differences in institutional structures and incentives in higher education affect students’ employability.
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    Inequality of opportunity in educational attainment in Middle East and North Africa: evidence from household surveys

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014
    Education is widely considered as the most important path to social mobility in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), yet there are very few studies of the extent to which it fulfills this promise.
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    Achievement gap between indigenous and non-indigenous children in Peru: an analysis of Young Lives survey data

    Young Lives, 2014
    In Peru, indigenous children obtain lower scores on academic tests, on average, than non-indigenous children. In this study, we investigate whether a test score achievement gap is found by the age of 5 and whether this gap increases by the age of 8.
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    Findings on the worst forms of child labor 2013

    2014
    The existence of child labour, particularly in its worst forms, often involves violations of laws and regulations, including serious criminal violations.  This report focuses on the efforts of certain U.S. trade beneficiary countries and territories to eliminate the worst forms of child labor through legislation, enforcement mechanisms, policies and social programmes.
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    Economic policy monitor 2011: education for development

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    This issue of the PIDS Economic Policy Monitor (EPM) focuses on education in the Philippines.
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    A glimpse at the school dropout problem

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010
    Dropouts may appear small in number but they are preponderant among the poor which thereupon turns the wheels of intergenerational transmission of poverty against them. At the personal level, dropping out of school will mean consigning one to a future of low-income trajectory. Given a choice, one will obviously not opt for this.

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