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  Teacher shocks and student learning: evidence from Zambia

  World Bank Research, 2005

  This paper examines the impact of shocks to teachers - primarily their own illness and the illnesses of family members - on student learning in Mathematics and English.
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  Educating children in poor countries

  International Monetary Fund, 2004

  This document examines the problem of poor parents having to pay to send their children to school in countries where governments lack either the financial resources or the political will to meet their citizens' educational needs.
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  Commonwealth teacher recruitment protocol

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004

  This document provides the full text of the Commonwealth teacher recruitment Protocol, adopted by Ministers of Education on September 1st, 2004.
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  Managing public education in São Paulo

  Fernand Braudel Institute of World Economics, Brazil, 2003

  The Brazilian schooling system faces many difficulties, especially in metropolitan areas such as Greater São Paulo, which are affected by high levels of immigration and problems of scale. Despite these problems, Brazilian authorities have succeeded in enrolling nearly all children in school.
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  Teacher motivation and incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This paper focuses on teacher motivation and incentives in low-income developing countries (LICs) in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. In particular, it assesses the extent to which the material and psychological needs of teachers are being met. This includes overall levels of occupational status, job satisfaction, pay and benefits, recruitment and deployment, attrition, and absenteeism.
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  Education for all: teacher demand and supply in Africa

  Education International, 2003

  Achievement of the Education for All (EFA) goal of universal primary education by 2015 requires that the education system can attract, educate and retain sufficient numbers of well qualified teachers. This working paper examines the place of teachers in the primary education systems of Botswana, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania (Mainland), Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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  Education for all: teacher demand and supply in South Asia

  Education International, 2003

  This working paper examines the place of teachers in the primary education systems of Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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  Supply side school improvement and the learning achievement of the poorest children in Indigenous and rural schools: the case of PARE

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper finds that learning achievement in rural and indigenous schools could increase through appropriately designed and reasonably well implemented interventions.
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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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