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  Can ICTs help increase literacy?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  There is growing awareness that it is not the learning of literacy skills that brings about social and economic benefits but the ability to use literacy in specific instances. Literacy learning must encourage the use of skills in real life situations and promote the transfer of literacy skills from the adult classroom into the external world.
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  Lessons offered by Latin American cash transfer programmes, Mexico’s Oportunidades and Nicaragua’s SPN: implications for African countries

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2005

  This paper, published by the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre, discusses and compares cash transfer programmes intended to tackle poverty in Mexico, Nicaragua, Zambia and Malawi. The paper argues that transferring cash to families has many advantages: it is simple to administer and gives the families freedom to decide how to spend the money.
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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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  Orphanhood and child vulnerability: Malawi

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2004

  This Country Brief explores the links between orphanhood, fostering and child vulnerability.
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  Orphanhood and child vulnerability: Zambia

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2004

  This paper explores the effect of orphanhood and fostering on child vulnerability. It finds that the loss of only one parent has a smaller but still significant effect on school attendance and work.Orphanhood increases child vulnerability on two fronts: it makes it more likely that a child is denied schooling and more likely that a child is exposed work.
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  The influence of orphanhood on children’s schooling and labour: evidence from Sub Saharan Africa

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2004

  This paper looks at whether orphanhood is linked to child labour and school attendance.
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  Financing and financial management of education

  International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 1997

  This document is the outcome of the Pan-African Seminar on financing and financial management of education in Africa, which was held in Dakar, Senegal on 12-14 October, 1997.The report first provides a synopsis of the seminar, which aimed to share experiences of financing and financial management of education in sub-Saharan Africa, and to exchange views on problems ecountered and solutions foun
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  Equity in educational expenditures: can government subsidies help?

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines government education subsidy schemes in Zambia. It asks the following questions:do resources allocated by the central authority actually reach intended recipients?
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  Public expenditure on education and resource management: case of Zambia

  Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 2004

  This paper examines how Zambia allocates public resources.
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  Teacher and health care provider absence: a multi-country study

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper looks at the incidence and causes of absenteeism in public health workers and teachers in eight countries. Research was based on unannounced visits to a random sample of health care facilities and schools.

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