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    Distance learning for teacher training in Brazil

    International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004
    This article describes a distance learning in-service training programme developed to upgrade 27,000 teachers working throughout Brazil. It illustrates design and implementation structure of the programme, called Proformação, and explains why it has proven to be a successful model for the delivery of education at a distance in the Brazilian context.
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    From social assistance to social development: targeted education subsidies in developing countries

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2003
    A joint project of the Center for Global Development and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), this book compiles published and unpublished material on existing conditioned transfer for education (CTE) programs and evaluates their ability to advance poverty reduction and education goals.
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    UK and overseas universities: working together to promote development?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The UK’s Higher Education Links Scheme (HEL) promotes exchanges (usually for three years) between UK and overseas universities. In line with objectives set out in its 1997 White Paper on the Elimination of World Poverty, the UK is keen that HEL should focus on poverty alleviation, sustainable development and gender equity. Is this re-emphasis producing results?
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    Financing education: investments and returns

    OECD Education and Skills, 2002
    This report seeks to analyse the education indicators developed through the OECD/UNESCO World Education Indicators (WEI) programme.
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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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    Relations MST - state: education, training and literacy programs, for children and adults in the state of Paraná

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    Focusing on programmes in the education of children and adults in rural areas, this paper summarises the activities undertaken by the Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST).
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    Social mobility in Latin America

    Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas, Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia, 2000
    This paper proposes a new measure of social mobility, It is based on schooling gap regressions and uses the Fields decomposition to determine the importance of family background in explaining teenagers' schooling gaps. The method is applied to a sample of 18 Latin American household surveys conducted in the late 1990s.

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