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Uncorrected vision may present a significant barrier to educational mobility in poor communities in low and middle income countries. Focusing on the case of rural Northwest China, we analyze the Gansu Survey of Children and Families (2,000 children; 100 rural villages) and the Gansu Vision...
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show that income uncertainty reduces several educational outcomes, including enrollment, education expenditures, and years … of education completed. The findings suggest that income uncertainty has larger welfare costs in terms of human capital …
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The aim of this volume is to draw international attention to the key role that education can play in both preventing … the devastating consequences of conflict on a country's education systems and outcomes, as well to emphasize the … importance of maximizing the opportunities to reform education systems presented by a reconstruction setting, adopting a long …
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support achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for poverty reduction and Education for All. …
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government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to primary education. Though dropout and course …
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. The meeting aimed to harness good practices, and knowledge for furthering judicial education, based on the premise that … judicial excellence, judicial ethics, and the role of human rights, e-learning, and distance education, in-service training and … evaluation methodologies, attitudinal change in the courts, and the role of education and strategies to inspire future …
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analyzes whether land titling for women led to improvements in child health and education. Results indicate that female …
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attention to the role that tertiary education can play in undergirding knowledge-based strategies for growth and competitiveness …, the types of tertiary education policies that can nurture this relationship, and the national-level conditions that shape …-up: tertiary education for growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. This report examined the human resource implications of more knowledge …
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programmatic emphases on health and education. These findings have important implications for leaders seeking to attract investment …
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Delivery of Education Services in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Bulgaria and Albania joined in 1998. The … infringe on the effectiveness of service delivery in the education sector. Country teams prepared country assessments of … intergovernmental arrangements in the education sector. Each country report reviewed the roles being played by different actors in the …
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