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  Equity, quality and relevance in higher education in Brazil

  Anais da Academia Brasiliera de Ciências [Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Science], 2004

  Brazilian higher education has doubled its size in the 1990s, going from 1.5 million to more than 3 million students in the period.
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  Access to condoms and HIV/AIDS information: a global health and human rights concern

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This Human Rights Watch briefing paper documents censorship of information, myths and restrictions on condoms in a number of countries. While condoms remain the single most effective device against sexually-transmitted HIV, they face government-imposed constraints in numerous countries worldwide. This brief outlines the United States’ (US) "War on Condoms", and religious opposition.
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  Girls’ education in Africa: what do we know about strategies that work?

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper focuses on examining strategies that have worked to increase girls’ education in Africa.
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  Conditional cash transfers, schooling and child labor: micro-simulating Bolsa Escola

  Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003

  Brazil's Bolsa Escola scheme was established in 2001 and provides a means-tested cash transfer to poor households, on the condition that children in the household attend school.
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  Inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunities in Brazil

  Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003

  This paper seeks to determine what part of observed inequality in Brazil is due to ‘circumstances’ and what part is due to ‘personal efforts’.
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  Regional or educational disparities?: a counterfactual exercise

  Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil, 2004

  This paper investigates differences in income between the poor Northeast and rich Southeast regions of Brazil, and between the states of Ceará and São Paulo within these regions, and attempts to assess how much of the income disparity can be explained by differences in schooling levels of the resident populations.It analyses data from the National Household Survey for 1999, using a method of st
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  Do borrowing constraints decrease intergenerational mobility?: evidence from Brazil

  Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil, 2003

  Theory suggests that borrowing constraints may influence intergenerational economic mobility because families that are unable to borrow only have access to their own resources to fund investments such as children’s education.
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  The impact of cash transfers on child labor and school attendance in Brazil

  Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade, Brazil, 2003

  Brazil’s Bolsa Escola schemes involve paying cash grants to poor parents on the condition that their children attend school.
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  Educational expansion and income distribution: a micro-simulation for Ceará

  Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002

  This paper analyses the likely effects of different education policies on poverty and inequality in the Brazilian state of Ceará.
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  Managing public education in São Paulo

  Fernand Braudel Institute of World Economics, Brazil, 2003

  The Brazilian schooling system faces many difficulties, especially in metropolitan areas such as Greater São Paulo, which are affected by high levels of immigration and problems of scale. Despite these problems, Brazilian authorities have succeeded in enrolling nearly all children in school.

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