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    Social inclusion or poverty alleviation? Lessons from recent Brazillian experiences

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2009
    Brazil’s recent economic growth has occurred in spite of the country’s persistent illiteracy: in 1999, approximately 15% of the total adult population was unable to read and write. In 1995, the government started the Bolsa-Escola programme as a first attempt at providing poor children with educational support.
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    Uncertainty, education, and the school-to-work transition: theory and evidence from Brazil

    Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2008
    This paper develops a model of investment in education and school-to-work transition under uncertainty, using Brazil as a case study. The main predictions of the model are confirmed by the empirical evidence on young individuals in living Brazil.
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    Can all cash transfers reduce inequality?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This one-page document examines the impact of three Latin American Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes providing cash transfers to poor families, conditioned on children’s school attendance and regular medical checks-ups.
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    Mobilizing the private sector for public education: a view from the trenches

    World Bank, 2007
    The papers in this book, initially presented at a conference hosted by the World Bank and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, demonstrate that public–private initiatives are widespread.
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    Teacher labor markets in developing countries

    Future of Children, 2007
    Can the US learn from the experience of developing countries’ efforts to staff under-funded schools with quality teachers? This article summarises research into strategies used by developing countries to improve teaching and thereby improve student outcomes in schools serving poor populations.
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    School drop-out and push-out factors in Brazil: the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
    This paper uses statistical analysis to identify the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in the urban shantytowns of Fortaleza, northeast Brazil.Based on surveys of young people, the analysis identifies the following features of school attendance in the region:similar to other studies in Latin America, more boys than girls drop out of school earlythre
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    Risk factors, pathways and outcomes for youth released from juvenile detention centres in Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Child Rights Information Network, 2006
    What factors make young people in Brazil more or less likely to be put in prison, and what happens to them after incarceration? This report presents findings from a project that used surveys and interviews to investigate the experiences of over 300 young people aged 12 to 17 who had been incarcerated in juvenile detention centres in São Paulo.
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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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    Where is education in the conditional cash transfers of education?

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2006
    This paper examines the educational effects of conditional cash transfers (CCT) for education. The study finds that based on the evidence reviewed in this paper, there is very limited support for the conclusion that CCTs are effective educational instruments, in particular with regards to their ability to increase learning.
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    Minimum Income for School Attendance (MISA) initiative: achieving international development goals in African least developed countries

    International Labour Organization, 2001
    In some Latin American countries, an innovative approach has been introduced to reduce poverty, to enhance the human capital of the poor and to combat child labour. The approach involves providing a minimum income to the poorest and most vulnerable families, conditional on regular school attendance by all their children of school going age.

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