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  Unemployment, education and skills constraints in post-apartheid South Africa

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2007

  The supply of skilled labour in South Africa cannot meet labour demands. This paper investigates the relationship between education and unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa, and examines whether employment growth has been inhibited by skills constraints. It focuses on the period 1995 to 2003. Key findings include: 
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  The impact of private provision of public education: empirical evidence from Bogotá’s concession schools

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  Are private providers more effective in delivering public education to low-income students?
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  The role of education quality in economic growth

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007

  What is the role of education and human capital in economic development? This paper argues that it is not the school attainment of the population, but the skills acquired through education that are essential to economic development.
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  Cancelling the caps: Why the EFA movement must confront wage bill caps now

  ActionAid International, 2006

  IMF loan criteria are currently threatening the achievement of Education for All, this paper contends. While EFA and MDG initiatives have resulted in a rapid expansion of the numbers of children in education, agreements between 18 developing countries and the IMF that cap the public sector wage bill are preventing the recruitment of new teachers.
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  Non-government secondary schooling in sub-Saharan Africa: exploring the evidence in South Africa and Malawi

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This research explores the development of non-government provision of secondary education in South Africa and Malawi, reviews experience in other Sub-Saharan African countries, and identifies lessons that can be learned of relevance to policy and practice.The research draws attention to some of the differences which exist in South Africa and Malawi and can be found in other SSA countries.
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  Is private education good for the poor?

  E.G West Centre for Market Solutions in Education, UK, 2005

  This report argues that private, unaided schools, can play important role in reaching the poor and satisfying their educational needs. Private education has an important role in helping the government meet its ‘education for all’ targets.
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  Conditions for educational achievement of lower secondary school graduates

  Institute of Public Affairs,, Poland, 2004

  What matters to students’ performance at the school leaving exam?
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  Determinants of household expenditure on education in rural India

  National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2002

  This paper examines how much different parts of the Indian population spend on education and attempts to assess what determines education expenditure. In particular, it examines the extent to which the amount spent on education by households responds to changes in household income and in government education spending.
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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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  Educating children in poor countries

  International Monetary Fund, 2004

  This document examines the problem of poor parents having to pay to send their children to school in countries where governments lack either the financial resources or the political will to meet their citizens' educational needs.

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