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    Two years after Dakar: on the road to EFA?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is the world on track to achieve the millennium target of Education for All (EFA) by 2015? Are the six EFA commitments made in April 2000 at the World Education Forum in Dakar being met? How can we plug gaps in knowledge about schooling and improve EFA reporting, monitoring and analysis?
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    Labour market dynamics in Pakistan: evidence from the longitudinal data

    Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Pakistan, 2003
    Employment is a central component of most poverty reduction strategies in developing countries. A clear understanding of labour market conditions is therefore essential for formulating effective employment creation and poverty reduction strategies. Why do people move in and out of the labour force? Does education increase employment prospects?
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    Distant future: new developments in open and distance learning

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can the worldwide expansion of distance education help developing countries to realise their education goals? Could new information and communication technologies (ICTs) help attain the Education for All goals adopted at the Dakar education forum? How can public and private providers and donors work together to increase the quality and spread of distance learning?
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    Aid, public expenditure and Millenium Development Goals: is collaboration possible?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is public expenditure in developing countries inefficient and biased against the poor? How could better aid delivery enhance the likelihood of achieving Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)? What changes are required in current patterns of public expenditure and monitoring and in donor-recipient relations?
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    What they don't know can hurt them: how school-based reproductive health programmes can help adolescents lead healthy reproductive lives

    Training and Research Support Centre, 2000
    This paper is intended to help parents, educators and policy makers understand the elements of good practice in school-based reproductive health programmes in Zimbabwe.Zimbabwe has reached a national consensus that reproductive health teaching should be provided during classroom time, beginning with primary school, before voluntary sexual activity has begun.
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    Are the MDGs feasible?

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2002
    This paper argues that if MDGs appear feasible at the global level, it does not necessarily imply that they will be feasible in all nations or at all locations. Averages are commonly used at each level to measure MDG progress, which can be quite misleading.
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    Barriers to distance education

    American Council on Education, 2002
    Technology provides higher education with the potential to disseminate knowledge to more people than ever before. Despite the promise of distributed education and continued advancements in technology, significant barriers remain. This paper describes the barriers to distance learning, both inside and outside the higher education community in the US.
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    Young Lives preliminary country report: Andhra Pradesh, India

    Young Lives, 2003
    Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.
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    Farmer Field schools: from IPM to platforms for learning and empowerment

    Centro Internacional de la Papa / International Potato Center (CIP), 2003
    This publication features highlights of the International Learning Workshop on Farmer Field Schools (FFS): Emerging Issues and Challenges, held in Indonesia on 21- 25 October 2002.
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    Young Lives preliminary country report: Peru

    Young Lives, 2003
    Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it.

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