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This study explores the qualitative data on why some Indonesians do not use basic maternal and child health services and why some Indonesians do not send their children to primary or junior high schools, which will serve as a baseline for future PNPM Generasi (Program Nasional Pemberdayaan...
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This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of the mechanisms behind this link by focusing on the relation between number of children and school attendance of children 6 to 24 years old. It surveys the international...
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significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
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significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
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This paper talks about how to pay for teaching at universities. It does not talk about financing research, nor about any particular country. Instead, its purpose is to offer a toolkit for policy makers thinking about reform. The paper sets out lessons for policy design from economic theory...
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The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on education in Pakistan at the … emphasising provision of education in Pakistan, as well as the trend in coverage and public sector spending on education … government education expenditure. The rural areas of Pakistan are the more disadvantaged in the provision of the education …
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school attendance. We then find that attrition during the transition between primary and junior secondary education levels is … policy implications of our results point to, among other things, the need for refocusing government education spending and … scholarship programs to target those who go missing from the education system after completing primary education. …
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jointly explains patterns of political participation at the individual level and differences in public investment in education …
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The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the biggest earthquake recorded in Japanese seismic history, and the fourth largest recorded in the world. The scope of the disaster far exceeded that of the Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. The repercussions of this disaster spread far...
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