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  Empowering parents to improve education: evidence from rural Mexico

  World Bank, 2006

  Mexico’s compensatory education programme provides extra resources to primary schools that enrol disadvantaged students in highly disadvantaged rural communities.
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  Transparency in education: Report Card in Bangladesh and Quality Schools Programme in Mexico

  International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2004

  This document consists of two papers, presenting case studies in Bangladesh and Mexico respectively, which aim to examine the setting up of participatory diagnosis tools and promotion of greater social control in the use of resources for improved transparency and accountability in education.The first paper describes the Report Card Survey implemented in Bangladesh.
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  Teachers matter: attracting, developing and retaining effective teachers: overview

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  Many countries are experiencing high rates of teacher attrition, while others are endowed with a large over-supply of qualified instructors. How can a country effectively attract, develop and retain a teacher?This report provides a comprehensive, international analysis of trends and developments in the teacher workforce from 25 countries.
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  The structuring of health systems and the control of infectious disease: looking at Mexico and Cuba

  Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2006

  This article, published by the Pan American Journal of Public Health, compares the different structures of health systems in Mexico and Cuba, and their ability to control infectious diseases. The Mexican health system is financed by both the public and private sector.
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  Where is education in the conditional cash transfers of education?

  UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2006

  This paper examines the educational effects of conditional cash transfers (CCT) for education. The study finds that based on the evidence reviewed in this paper, there is very limited support for the conclusion that CCTs are effective educational instruments, in particular with regards to their ability to increase learning.
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  Effective control of dengue vectors with curtains and water container covers treated with insecticide in Mexico and Venezuela: cluster randomised trials

  British Medical Journal, 2006

  This paper, published in the British Medical Journal, reports on trials in Mexico and Venezuela of measures to control dengue (“break bone”) fever, an infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes. The trials measured the impact of window curtains and water container covers treated with insecticide on the number of mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus, and on transmission of the disease.
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  A case study of ICT and school improvement at Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec School, Oaxaca, Mexico

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2001

  This work is part of the ICT and the Learning Quality program of the Education for the Future project which the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is developing in order to obtain empirical evidence that may offer orientation as to the options concerning educational policy for the 21st Century.The case stud
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  The quality of education and economic development

  Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, 1986

  This paper, addresses the area of quality in education in developing countries. Two types of study are presented here: the first relates to the economic growth that might result from expenditures on the quality of education: the second concerns the best quality of education.
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  The banking system in emerging economies: how much progress has been made?

  Bank for International Settlements, 2006

  Banking crises in emerging markets in the 1990s were associated with major macroeconomic disruptions: sharp increases in interest rates, large currency depreciations, output collapses and lasting declines in the supply of credit.
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  Curtains and water container covers help control dengue mosquitoes

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  There is currently no vaccine against dengue. Controlling the mosquitoes that transmits the dengue is the only means of prevention. However, previous attempts to do this have proved difficult to sustain, as well as expensive. An effective and sustainable community intervention is needed.

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