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This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment. The paper uses rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000 to 2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. The results...
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This paper estimates the short-term, partial-equilibrium impacts of a public-private partnership program for low-cost private secondary schools in Uganda. The public-private partnership program is part of a broader strategy to absorb large increases in secondary enrollment following the...
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This paper discusses the potential role of low-cost private secondary schools in Tanzania. The share of private enrollment has been negatively correlated with the availability of public schools. With the 2016 Fee-Free Basic Education Policy, the public secondary education system is experiencing...
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"Back to School: Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education" focuses on a social and global problem …--200 million adolescents and youth are out of school, live in adverse life circumstances, and face multiple disadvantages … variations in both individual and contextual characteristics of the targeted youth. The synthesized findings from this review are …
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Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth …
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stakeholder consultation processes to date. Given the focus of the 2007 WDR on youth, it was especially important to devise a … consultative process that will foster a dialogue not only about youth but also with young people themselves. At the same time, it … had to be made clear to the youth constituency that the report could not be written by youth. The consultations had three …
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This article investigates the effect increasing secondary education opportunities has on teenage fertility in Brazil. Using a novel dataset to exploit variation from a 57 increase in secondary schools across 4,884 Brazilian municipalities between 1997 and 2009, the analysis shows an important...
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The objective of this report is to document the process and summarize the results from the second phase of the pilot implementation of statistical models for measuring the value-added of Bulgarian schools through analysis of the national student' assessments results. This report presents the...
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Using a panel of 80 developing and developed countries for the period 1990-2015, this studyanalyses the relationship between exchange rate volatility and foreign direct investment (FDI)inflows. The results reveal a negative relationship between de facto exchange rate volatility andFDI. Reducing...
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This paper provides an initial analysis of the impact on the World Bank's global poverty estimates of the revised 2011 and new 2017 PPPs published in May 2020. The revised 2011 PPPs slightly increase poverty in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, causing the extreme poverty headcount ratio for...
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