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    Enhancing accountability in schools

    Education Section, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2007
    This note on education examines one initiative governments in developing countries have taken in response to the challenge of getting and keeping more children enrolled in school, while simultaneously ensuring that learning outcomes improve: the introduction of policies that emphasise choice, managerial autonomy and accountability for result.
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    id21 insights education 6. More and better teachers needed: achieving quality education for all

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    This issue of id21 insights education looks at a range of issues affecting teachers and the kinds of support they need at local, national and international policy levels to help them fulfil their critical role in achieving education for all.The following articles discuss these issues in detail:
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    Moving young

    United Nations Population Fund, 2006
    Why do young people move? Who are they? This report explores the lives of young migrants from or those whose lives are marked by the experiences of spouses or relatives who have moved abroad.
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    Agendas en Conflicto en Colombia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    En la selva tropical de Colombia, comunidades indígenas y de descendientes africanos viven aisladas del resto del país. El desarrollo de transporte a gran escala, responsable de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero y la extensa deforestación, tiene un record ambiental bajo, en una de las únicas dos selvas tropicales húmedas que quedan en el planeta.
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    Supermarkets to spread in the developing world by 2015

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Supermarkets will continue to spread throughout the developing world over the next ten years. Income growth, urbanisation, and openness to foreign direct investment will be the key factors determining supermarkets’ increased market share of the retail sector.
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    More and better teachers needed: achieving quality education for all

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Eighteen million primary school teachers are needed over the next decade to meet Universal Primary Education (UPE) goals, says a recent report from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics. This is to fill the new posts needed and the vacancies created by attrition (teachers leaving existing posts).
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    Fighting for their lives: Political violence against teachers in Colombia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Awareness of the scale of human rights violations against Colombian trade unionists is growing. Of the 1,174 reported murders of trade unionists worldwide between 1999 and 2005, 860 were Colombian and half of these were teachers, according to the Colombian National Trade Union School.
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    Anglo American: the alternative report

    War on Want, 2007
    This report documents the performance of the world’s second largest mining company with regard to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Despite Anglo American’s participation in various voluntary CSR initiatives, it continues to abuse human rights, fuel conflict and damage the local environment and livelihoods.
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    2005
    How can gender be mainstreamed into the workplace so that it improves gender equality in the world of work? This report presents 25 gender equality initiatives carried out by governments, employers' organisations and trade unions across 21 countries. 'Good Practices' by these institutions fall into eight main categories. They include :
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    Democratisation through legal reform in Latin America – obstacles and opportunities

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Legal reform offers an uncertain path towards democratization within developing nations. Effective legal systems may appear fundamental to developed democracies – restraining governments, guaranteeing rights and promptly resolving disputes. But the process of building these systems has been slow, contested and often violent.

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