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    The decline in primary school enrolment in Kenya

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2002
    Educational participation in Kenya appears to have dropped in the 1990s, reversing the gains made in previous decades. This paper uses temporal and cross-section data to examine various factors that could be responsible for the decline in primary school enrolment.
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    Human capital, household welfare, and children’s schooling in Mozambique

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
    This report analyses the potential for investments in education by individual households, government, and by donor agencies, to reduce poverty in Mozambique. It looks at the current situation of education attainment in the country and examines the association between human capital and both monetary and nonmonetary dimensions of household welfare.
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    Towards a new consensus for addressing the global challenge of the lack of education

    Copenhagen Consensus, 2004
    This paper considers the costs and benefits of opportunities available for developing countries to move towards the goals for education set by the Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All initiative.Through a broad review of the literature on education, it presents a case for reconsidering some of the assumptions and prevailing themes of the debates around the education goals, ide
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    Composition of government expenditures and demand for education in developing countries

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2002
    It is generally considered true that education contributes to poverty alleviation. However, this report considers the fact that many governments have very limited resources and must choose between education spending and other infrastructure.
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    The politics of education reform: bolstering the supply and demand, overcoming institutional blocks

    Global Education Reform [World Bank], 1999
    This paper explores the political conditions that may enhance or hinder the adoption of education reforms. It relies on existing studies of reform adoption to extract hypotheses.

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