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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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  Back to the blackboard: looking beyond Universal Primary Education in Africa

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2004

  This report presents a collection of five articles on education in Africa, each paper discussing the situation of a particular area or issue in education, and highlighting the challenges which need to be addressed, often benchmarking progress against EFA goals and the MDGs.This report aims to encourage governments, donors and policy makers thinking and planning ahead to cope with the expected s
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  Vouchers for basic education in developing countries: a principal-agent perspective

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper assesses the impact of education voucher schemes in a number of countries, and uses a principal-agent framework to suggest what might be expected from voucher programs in developing countries, what kinds of voucher programs might be most useful, and what elements of the institutional infrastructure will be important for their implementation.The paper is structured in four sections: f
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  Economic growth, education improvement and poverty reduction: the Indonesian experience

  Center for Industrial Economic Studies, Faculty of Economics, University of Trisakti, Indonesia, 2004

  Indonesia’s rapid economic growth from the mid-1970s until 1997, combined with pro-poor policies in education, have led to dramatic drops in adult illiteracy as well as a substantial fall in the proportion of people living below the poverty line.
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  The impact of children’s work on schooling: multi-country evidence based on SIMPOC data

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  This paper asks whether there is an acceptable threshold of weekly hours of work children can undertake beyond which school attendance and performance are negatively impacted. In addition, the paper provides evidence on the impact of hours of child work on other learning measures such as: time spent on studies at home; hours of study at school and at home; and the number of failures in school.
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  Why should we care about child labor?: the education, labor market, and health consequences of child labor

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper examines the consequences of child labour on the children’s education, wages, and health.
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  Working-age adult mortality and primary school attendance in rural Kenya

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2004

  This paper examines the impact of working-age adult mortality on child primary school attendance in Kenya.
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  State of the world's children 2005: childhood under threat

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This year’s report analyses the violations of children’s rights, focusing on the three areas of childhood poverty; conflict; and HIV/AIDS.The report finds that millions of children are severely deprived of nutrition, water, sanitation facilities, access to basic health-care services, shelter, education and information.
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  Quality education: the key role of teachers

  Education International, 2004

  This paper examines ways that quality education can be improved, by looking at the roles that teachers themselves can play, and the support that governments and education authorities, and teacher unions can give.The paper provides recommendations to teachers, governments and authorities, and teachers unions, including:Teachers:quality awareness and self-evaluation: teachers mu
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  The state of the world’s children 1996

  United Nations Children's Fund, 1996

  The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was created 50 years ago in response to the poverty and suffering faced by European children in the aftermath of World War Two. Produced by UNICEF, this document traces the historical evolution of the agency and how it became the most important lobby for children’s rights and well-being all over the world.

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