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    Environmental and socioeconomic impacts of Mexico's payments for ecosystem services program

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    This document summarizes current findings from an evaluation of Mexico’s National Payments for Hydrological Services from 2003-2010.  Th evaluation seeks to understand the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the program, with the goal of extracting lessons learned and identifying room for possible future improvement.
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    Subsidising education: are school vouchers the solution?

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2010
    Good quality education is out of reach for many poor people, due to its high costs. Governments try to make it more accessible by subsidising it. School vouchers provide one means subsidise education. Vouchers allow students to expand their school choice, including attending private schools, potentially providing “better quality” education.
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    Education for all: how to pass the 2015 grade?

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2010
    Lack of education is one of the many dimensions of poverty. Achieving universal primary education is not only a goal in itself but also a contributing factor to achieve other development goals, such as a reduced rate of HIV/AIDS, better resource management, lower poverty and inequality and sustained economic growth, 2003.
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    Running water, working toilets and safe hygiene practices: essential service s to save lives

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009
    The world is not on track to meet the international sanitation targets set by the Millennium Development Goals. While lack of safe water and sanitation is the world’s single largest cause of illness, 2.5 billion people are still without access to improved sanitation and 1.2 billion have no facilities.
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    Getting girls into school: a development benefit for all

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009
    A disproportionate number of girls remain out of schools in many developing countries. Evidence shows there is a need for ‘gender-targeted’ programs. Such targeted programs may be financial incentives - which a number have studies have found to be effective - or female-friendly schools, for which the evidence base is weak.
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    Water to save lives

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009
    One billion people across the world do not have access to ‘improved water’. There is virtually no access to safe drinking water among the poorest 40 per cent in Africa.
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    Special needs education: towards more inclusive

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009
    Enrolment rates and educational attainment of children with disabilities lag far behind those of their non-disabled peers. The school enrolment rate for children with disabilities is estimated to be some 2 to 5 percent in developing countries, a deficit that far exceeds those of other high-risk groups such as girls, children from rural areas, or from low-income families.
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    Assessing long-term impacts of conditional cash transfers on children and young adults in rural Nicaragua

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes, which offer families cash grants conditional on attendance at school or preventive health visits, have expanded rapidly over the past decade.
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    Paying for performance in China’s battle against anaemiazh

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    Despite China's rapid economic development, prevalence rates of anaemia among children in rural China range from 20 to 60 per cent – implying more than 10 million affected children.
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    The promise of preschool in Africa: a randomized impact evaluation of early childhood development in rural Mozambique

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012
    Early childhood development programmes are seen as a promising way to prevent such delays and foster early development. While there is a growing evidence base on the effects of early childhood development programmes in the United States, Latin America and elsewhere, there is little evidence of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of such programmes in the African context.

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