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  An exploratory study of internet usage at higher education institutions in Asia, Africa and Latin America: comparative synthesis

  International Institute of Infonomics, 2002

  This document synthesises and comments on the results of three regional studies into the use of the internet in higher education in the South. The authors state that relatively little is known about the impact of ICT on the higher education sector of the developing world.
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  Frameworks for understanding the intergenerational transmission of poverty and well-being in developing countries

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2001

  In this paper, a framework for understanding intergenerationally transmitted poverty (IGT poverty) in developing country contexts is developed, focussing on bringing together literature on the intergenerational transfer, extraction, and absence of transfer of different forms of capital: human, social-cultural, social-political, financial/material and environmental/natural.
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  Evaluation of EC support to the education sector in ACP countries: synthesis report

  European Union, 2002

  This document describes the results of a desk based and field visit study that explored EC policy and funding for education in ACP countries. The authors provide an overview of education development goals and the history of allocation to education of ODA.
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  Human capital externalities and returns to education in Kenya

  Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2002

  The Kenyan government has devoted the largest share of its budget to expanding education since independence. So are the large amounts of resources invested in education by government and parents justified by the returns yielded to the individual and society?
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  Indicators of performance in South Africa's public school system

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2002

  Even though education is the largest area of expenditure in the South African state budget, and whilst compared to other middle income countries, the government’s expenditure on education is high, the quality of schooling in South Africa is believed to be relatively poor.
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  Partnerships between ministries of education and international funding and technical assistance agencies

  Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2002

  This paper tracks the development of the sector wide approach to education in Mozambique and notes the relative success in achieving genuine partnership between international organisations and government.The experience in Mozambique has demonstrated that the factors or conditions that seem to facilitate partnership, include:an understanding of the complexity of the concept of partnershi
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  A chance to learn: knowledge and finance for education in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Africa Region Human Development Department, World Bank, 2001

  This report argues that there is a strong case for the Bank to expand and broaden its support for education development in Africa providing necessary changes are made to the Bank's education funding strategy.Major factors that have limited the scope of the World Bank's impact on education in Africa in the past include:lending commitments have stabilized at a lower level than is consiste
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  Nepal and Pakistan: case studies of education project approaches to gender mainstreaming.

  Cambridge Education Consultants, 1999

  The paper relates to two DFID supported education projects: one in Punjab (Pakistan), the Punjab Middle Schools Project (PMSP), and one in Nepal, the Secondary Education Project (SEP).
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  Health and literacy compendium

  World Education, 1999

  This compendium describes and provides details for both print and web based materials on the following subjects:links between health status and literacy statushow to assess and develop easy to read health education materialshow to teach health with literacy in mind and how to teach literacy using health contentbackground information about literacy and participatory education ap
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  Barriers to girls' education, strategies and interventions

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  This short document provides information on barriers and interventions to address them in tables. It looks at a number of barriers, their possible causes, broad strategies and specific interventions that may be useful in addressing them.It looks at barriers in the following areas:at household and community levelat school levelat policy and system level

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