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Secondary Education in Europe: Main Trends

Jallade, Jean-Pierre - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

The objective of this paper is to present in a condensed form the "main trends" that have affected secondary education …

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Poverty and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2001

This document surveys Bank lending operations designed to fight poverty and enhance social equity, with emphasis on recently approved projects with innovative components. It also surveys a broad range of poverty-related non-lending activities carried out by the Bank over the past two years. It...

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Secondary Education: Critical Policy Issues

Alvarez, Benjamin - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

The purpose of this report is to identify critical issues for consideration in the development of secondary education …

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Distance Teaching Strategies to Reduce the Dropout Rate and Improve Learning in Secondary Education

Block, Clifford - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

This paper explores the potential for educational planners to incorporate distance education into their strategies for … the expansion of secondary education. …

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Improving the Education Component of Conditional Cash Transfers in Urban Settings

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Santiago, Ana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

Presents information about opportunity cost of attendance to school, touching on issues of the proper dimensioning of cash subsidies, the adequacy of the conditionality and operational issues associated with conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs. It then analyzes the challenge of increasing...

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School Principals in Latin America and the Caribbean: Leaders for Change or Subjects of Change?

Borden, Allison M. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

The purpose of this paper is to analyze three broad themes related to school principals: (1) the role of the school principal, (2) the preparation of principals to assume new roles, and (3) directions for future research on principals and their work.

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Education Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean

McMeekin, Robert W. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

This report summarizes the results of a study of the education statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC …), financed by the Ford Foundation and implemented by UNESCO's Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean … (UNESCO-Santiago). The study is based on two kinds of information inputs. The first is a study of sixteen education statistics …

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The Ministry of Education-Chilean Teachers Association Negotiation: Chile 2000: A Personal Perspective

Weinstein, José - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This paper narrates the Negotiation conducted in 2000 between the Chilean government, through the Ministry of Education …

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The Impact of Funding on Research Collaboration: Evidence from Argentina

Ubfal, Diego; Maffioli, Alessandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of research grants on the amount of collaboration, among scientific researchers in Argentina. We find a positive and significant impact of funding on collaboration, which is measured in terms of the number of co-authors for publications in peer-reviewed...

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Facing the Challenges of Informal Settlements in Urban Centers: The Re-urbanization of Manaus, Brazil

Magalhães, Fernanda; Rojas, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

The search for solutions to urban and social problems prompted by informal settlements is gaining importance in the development agenda of most large cities in Latin America. Nearly 60 percent of the population lives in informal, often centrally located settlements.

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