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There is an imperative need to change the education pattern to achieve universal primary education in India. Even after 60 years of Independence, India faces obstacles in providing Education For All. This study was conducted in a primary school of Errabelly village of Karimnager district of...
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The Right to Education (RTE) Act came into effect on 1st April 2010 in India, which ensures free and compulsory education to every child between the ages 6-14 years. India is currently having 8.1 million eligible students who are dropouts. Therefore, bringing them back to school has been...
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Women constitute almost half of the population of the world. Education for women is the best way to improve the health, nutrition and economic status of a household that constitute a micro unit of a nation economy. In this context, it can be argued that lack of woman education can be an...
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-urban, gender, and age-cohort. After model estimation, marginal effects for each of the models were obtained. The analysis of the … various coefficients was done across all models. The results showed the insignificance of distance to school, gender of pupil …, gender of household head and total average amount of school dues paid by students in influencing dropout of pupils thus …
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This paper provides a comparative assessment of the market share, reach to the poor, and performance of faith-based and public schools in Sierra Leone using data from the 2004 Integrated Household Survey. One-third of primary school students attend government schools and more than half are in...
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This paper provides a comparative assessment of the market share, reach to the poor, and performance of faith-based and public schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo using data from the 2004-2005 "123" survey. More than two thirds of primary school students attend faith-based...
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gender dimensions within and income earnings in India, the context of gendered participation of female labour supplies in its … traits and labour supply characteristics; aspects of in-market discriminations and gender biases against women in terms of … hiring, promotion, segregation, gender relations and remunerations; and factors influencing women’s work time distribution …
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Gender disparities in education raise many questions for governments and civil societies. There are many factors that … contribute to the gender gap in education. In Eritrea, gender disparities persist in the enrolment rates between boys and girls … at all levels. Gender inequality has become a major issue in Eritrea in the recent years. This paper discusses …
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Developing countries are increasingly concerned about gender dimensions of the impacts of economic reforms initiated … in structure of market employment, gender division of labour remains unequal within household economy. …
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monetary poverty and inequality. Intra-household gender discrimination has been widely shown to shape expenditure decisions … dominated by gender discrimination among household members. Estimates for Chile show a substantial worsening of poverty and …
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