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The Pedagogy of Science and Environment: Experimental Evidence from Peru Title: La pedagogía en ciencias y medio ambiente: Evidencias experimentales en Perú
Beuermann, Diether Wolfgang; Ruprah, Inder jit; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
In today's knowledge-based societies, understanding basic scientific concepts and the capacity to structure and solve scientific questions is more critical than ever. Accordingly, in this paper we test an innovative methodology for teaching science and environment in public primary schools where...
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Information Technology and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ecuador
Carrillo, Paul; Onofa, Mercedes; Ponce, Juan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper studies the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the school environment on educational achievement. To quantify these effects, the impact is evaluated of a project run by the municipality of Guayaquil, Ecuador, which provides computer-aided instruction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944355
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Primary Education in Latin America: The Unfinished Agenda
Wolff, Laurence; Schiefelbein, Ernesto; Schiefelbein, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This paper asks a deceptively simple question. After over a decade of concern about and investment in primary education, what have been the results and how much further does the region need to go before it has achieved a primary education of quality for all children? The paper creatively reviews...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009206132
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Primary Education in Latin America: The Unfinished Agenda
Wolff, Laurence; Schiefelbein, Ernesto; Schiefelbein, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This paper asks a deceptively simple question. After over a decade of concern about and investment in primary education, what have been the results and how much further does the region need to go before it has achieved a primary education of quality for all children? The paper creatively reviews...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654519
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Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality
Keefer, Philip; Milanovic, Branko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240346
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Returns to Higher Education in Chile and Colombia
González-Velosa, Carolina; Rucci, Graciana; Sarzosa, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015
In the last decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a dramatic increase in the levels of higher education enrollment. Using administrative data from Chile and Colombia, we find that this phenomenon is not always associated with higher private individual returns. In...
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Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Saavedra-Chanduví, Jaime; Molinas, José R.; Barros, … - Inter-American Development Bank
, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. 'Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the … Caribbean' introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin … for quantifying inequality based on circumstances exogenous to individual efforts. These methods are applied to gauge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772354
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Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World
Phillips, Katherin Ross; Gertler, Paul; Smeeding, Timothy M. - Inter-American Development Bank
Shielding the Poor presents a group of studies on social protection in the developing world from leading researchers. These studies address the issue of vulnerability of the poor to adverse shocks and propose policies to increase their protection and coping capacity. The studies emphasize the...
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Beyond Tradeoffs: Market Reform and Equitable Growth in Latin America
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Birdsall, Nancy; Naím, Moisés; … - Inter-American Development Bank
between these two objectives. This volume shows how reforms can address the urgent issue of inequality without undermining …
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The Promise of Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Vegas, Emiliana; Santibáñez, Lucrecia - Inter-American Development Bank
Early childhood development outcomes play an important role throughout a person's life, affecting one's income-earning capacity and productivity, longevity, health, and cognitive ability. The deleterious effects of poor early childhood development outcomes can be long-lasting, affecting school...
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