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    Zambia effective delivery of public education services: discussion paper

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    The introduction of free basic education (FBE) in Zambia in 2002 during the Basic Educational Sub-sector Investment Programme (BESSIP) significantly improved access to primary education, especially after declining enrolments in the 1990s.
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    Zambia effective delivery of public education services

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    The introduction of free basic education (FBE) in Zambia in 2002 during the Basic Educational Sub-sector Investment Programme (BESSIP) significantly improved access to primary education, especially after declining enrolments in the 1990s.
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    Educational technology - HEART Topic Guide

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    This new topic guide from HEART addresses the question: What is the evidence that the use of digital or electronic technologies and materials to support teaching and learning. by teachers or students, impacts teaching and learning practices or learning outcomes? It offers recommendations on how to strengthen the design, implementation and evaluation of programmes that use edtech.
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    Connecting unpaid care work and childhood development for gains in women and children’s rights

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    This policy briefing argues that women’s rights and children’s rights directly influence each other, yet there have been few successes at tackling the agendas in a collaborative way, limiting the quality of policy and practice in both areas.
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    African students in China An exploration of increasing numbers and their motivations in Beijing

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2012
    Besides the field of commercial activities, education has become a great component of the Sino-African framework.
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    Universal basic education in Pakistan: a commentary on strategy and results of a survey

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    The universalisation of basic education ought to receive undisputed priority for public action in Pakistan. This paper aims to develop a critique of the existing debate on the failure of basic education in Pakistan. A second aim of this paper is to report the findings of a primary field survey conducted in various parts of the country.
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    History of educational policy making and planning in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Pakistan remains a largely illiterate country. Close to two-thirds of the population and over 80 percent of rural women are still illiterate. More than a quarter of children between the ages of five and nine do not attend school. And for those who do, the quality of education is seriously wanting.
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    The state of basic education in Pakistan: a qualitative, comparative institutional analysis

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    The government is and will continue to be the most important provider of basic education for a while yet. The reason for this is that they will increasingly cater to the poor majority that has neither “voice” or “exit” options.
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    Perspectives on education from field-work in Southern Punjab, Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000
    It was striking how very few people talked about development interventions that would radically change the fabric of their lives. Development was definitely conceived of as something that should strengthen existing values and ways of being, and aspects of development that might seem threatening were dismissed or critiqued.
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    Population dynamics in Pakistan: past, present and future

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    Pakistan is one of the largest and fastest growing countries in the world. In 2010, it ranked 6th most populous country and will stand at 4th in 2050. Pakistan’s rapid population growth, during the second half of the 20th century, can largely be explained by the conventional demographic transition theory i.e.

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