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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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  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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  Children’s multidimensional health and medium-run cognitive skills

  Young Lives, 2014

  By recognising the multifaceted nature of health, this paper engages in the lively debate on the effects of health in early childhood on educational outcomes in later life stages, bringing new evidence from four low-and middle-income countries.
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  Child labor and learning

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2014

  While much is known about the incidence and the determinants of child labor, surprisingly little is known about the consequences of child work on participants.
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  Youth matters: equipping vulnerable young people with literacy and life skills

  UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2013

  Young people who have never been to school or those who have dropped out (or been “pushed out”) are among the most vulnerable. Being excluded from basic education puts a wide range of opportunities beyond their reach.
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  Parents’ perspectives on quality of schooling in Andhra Pradesh, India

  Young Lives, 2014

  The post-MDG development agenda recognises that simply getting children enrolled in school does not equate with better learning outcomes for children.
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  Not made by Chidren - a toolkit for understanding the realities, responses and responsibilities of stakeholders in the garment supply chain

  Global March Against Child Labour, 2014

  This Toolkit is designed with the intent to present the conceptual, factual and actual understanding of child labour in a simple, short and systematic manner.
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  Tackling child domestic labour and protecting young domestic workers: a global resource manual

  Global March Against Child Labour, 2014

  The Resource Manual is a comprehensive document on the issue of engagement of children in domestic work that is intended to provide support to organisations ranging from trade unions, child rights organisations and others to take action against child domestic labour and to protect young domestic workers of legal working age.

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