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Given its modest position as a lower-middle-income country, Vietnam stands out from the rest of the world with its remarkable performance on standardized test scores, school enrollment, and completed years of schooling. This paper provides an overview of the factors behind this exemplary...
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The number of countries that regularly participate in international large-scale assessments has increased sharply over the past 15 years, with the share of countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment growing from one-fifth of countries in 2000 to over one-third...
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: (1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; (2) encouraging students to debate the … role of condoms and to write essays on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS; and (3) reducing the cost of education … activity. Reducing the cost of education by paying for school uniforms reduced dropout rates, teen marriage, and childbearing. …
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The authors use propensity score matching to evaluate the effectiveness of CONAFE, a compensatory education program in … in improving primary school math learning and secondary school Spanish learning. Secondary education delivered by way of … television to remote communities and bilingual education for indigenous students are both shown to improve student achievement …
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factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into … reflected in the intake of nutrients such as protein, calcium, and iron for children's physical growth. Vitamins A and C are … important for reducing morbidity. Children's growth and morbidity affect their cognitive development, which is critical for the …
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. Consistent with microeconomic studies for Guatemala, primary and secondary education are most important for productivity growth … differentiates by level of education. It shows that the human capital variables explain more than 50 percent of output growth. Of …
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This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … remittances flows with respect to GDP. While remittances tend to have positive effects on education and health, this impact is …
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), (hereafter TMSDG), disputes these findings. The authors conclude that while treatment of children known to be infected increases … is 0.148 kg (95 percent CI: 0.039, 0.258). The implied average effect of MDA on infected children in the full sample is 0 …
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childhood development have historically been a challenge in Morocco, with children facing unequal opportunities to develop … time, using several surveys conducted between 2003 and 2012. Large disparities exist in children's chances of healthy early …
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centers and complemented these efforts with a group-based parenting support program. Children in the integrated intervention …-emotional development than children in centers receiving teacher training alone at the 18-month follow-up. However, the study finds no …
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