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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...

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Primary Education in Latin America: The Unfinished Agenda

Wolff, Laurence; Schiefelbein, Ernesto; Schiefelbein, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

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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...

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Domestic Violence against Women

Biehl, María Loreto - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

This document is one of a series of technical notes that describe the nature and magnitude of violence in the region, its causes and effects, and how it can be prevented and controlled. The notes provide useful information on designing programs and policies to prevent and deal with violence....

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Women in the Latin American Labor Market: The Remarkable 1990's

Duryea, Suzanne; Edwards, Alejandra Cox; Ureta, Manuelita - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

the division of labor and time allocation by gender. …

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Gender Earnings Gaps in the Caribbean: Evidence from Barbados and Jamaica

Ñopo, Hugo; Bellony, Annelle; Hoyos, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This paper analyzes gender earnings gaps in Barbados and Jamaica, using a matching comparisons approach. In both … confirm a finding that has been recurrent with this matching approach: the complete elimination of gender occupational … segregation in labor markets would increase rather than reduce gender earnings gaps. The evidence is mixed regarding segregation …

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Definitions Matter: Measuring Gender Gaps in Firms' Access to Credit

Piras, Claudia; Presbitero, Andrea; Rabellotti, Roberta - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

support the existence of a gender gap in access to finance in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Nonetheless, more … evidence presented herein suggests that this gender gap may be driven by taste-based discrimination. This paper exploits a rich … of gender gaps in access to finance. …

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Women in the Latin American Labor Market: The Remarkable 1990's

Duryea, Suzanne; Edwards, Alejandra Cox; Ureta, Manuelita - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

the division of labor and time allocation by gender. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652650

Internet Diffusion, Innovation and Employment Growth in the Costa Rican Manufacturing Sector

Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan A.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

employment growth and suggest that employee use of the Internet is neither a labor displacement innovation nor a gender or skill …

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