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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Ethiopia

  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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  The Flynn effect in rural Kenya

  Global Livestock CRSP, 2002

  Multiple studies have documented significant IQ gains over time, labelled the “Flynn Effect”. This study documents the Flynn Effect in a rural area of a developing country. Data for this project were collected as part of two large studies in Embu, Kenya in 1984 and 1998.Results strongly support a Flynn Effect over this 14-year period. Previously hypothesised explanations (e.g.
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  Young Lives preliminary country report: Vietnam

  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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  Universities, adult basic education, open and lifelong learning and new technology: resources for change in developing countries: some thoughts from Namibia

  E-learning, Development Gateway, 2003

  This paper asks: how do universities maintain their long-established role of being the apex of national education systems through the maintenance of the highest standards of academic excellence, while meeting the growing pressure for mass higher education and for relevance to the development of human resources to meet national and industrial/business development needs?It demonstrates that there
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  Child farm labor: the wealth paradox

  Economics department, University of Bristol, 2003

  This paper is motivated by the observation that children in land-rich households are often more likely to be in work than the children of land-poor households.The vast majority of working children in developing countries are in agricultural work, predominantly on farms operated by their families.
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  How much of the gender difference in child school enrolment can be explained? evidence from Rural India

  Cardiff Business School, Economics Section, 2003

  This paper considers several possible causes of observed gender differences in child schooling in the Indian states, including differential returns to schooling, household resource constraint, nature of parental preferences and also child’s implicit opportunity costs of domestic work.Findings:the predicted value of household expenditure has similar effects on enrolment of both boys and
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  The role of education in protecting children in conflict

  Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2003

  This paper argues for a reappraisal of the position of education in emergency programming. It explores the links between education and the wider protection needs of the children it assists. It suggests that, as protection in conflict emerges more clearly as a legitimate humanitarian concern, so the role of education as a tool of protection must be more clearly understood.
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  Benchmarking government provision of social safety nets

  World Bank, 2003

  In order to assess how much governments should spend on social programs generally, or safety nets in particular, this paper assumes that what governments can potentially do in terms of spending on social programs is given by what governments across the world are actually observed to be doing on average.This papers analyses 63 countries spending patterns from 1972-1997 using a comparative benchm
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  Curriculum development at the African Regional Wildlife Colleges, with special reference to the Ecole de Faune, Cameroon

  Eldis Gender Resource Guide, 2003

  This paper reviews developments in African wildlife management and the resulting training requirements and organization of the colleges.
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  World Development Report 2004: making services work for poor people

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2003

  This issue of the WDR focuses on policies for improving the access of poor people to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity.The report focuses on the three ways in which services can be improved:By increasing poor clients’ choice and participation in service delivery, so they can monitor and discipline providers: School vouche

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