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Alternative and Inclusive Learning in the Philippines

World Bank - 2016

The Philippines has made remarkable progress in improving the quality of basic education in recent decades. Even so, despite significant improvements in primary and secondary education, the number of students who drop out of school remains worryingly high. More than five million youths have...

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Knowledge Map : Impact of ICTs on Learning and Achievement

World Bank - 2012

It is generally believed that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can empower teachers and learners, promote change and foster the development of '21st century skills, but data to support these beliefs are still limited. There is widespread belief that ICTs can and will empower...

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???South-South??? Learning Exchange for Client Capacity Enhancement

World Bank - 2012

Client feedback surveys in Africa indicate that the Bank's performance requires strengthening with regard to (a) respect for local cultures, (b) adaptation of knowledge to the local context and (c) incorporation of local knowledge into development efforts. They would like to see greater...

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An Evidence-Informed Response to Slum Settlements : A Learning Note

World Bank - 2013

This learning note prepares policymakers to engage with their technical experts and staff in designing and implementing an evidence-informed response to the challenges of existing and future slum settlements. To that end, the note discusses a set of indicators and data analysis techniques needed...

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Learning Recovery to Acceleration

World Bank - 2023

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, global learning levels were unacceptably low. In 2019, learning poverty, the share of children unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10, had reached 57 percent in low- and middle-income countries (World Bank and others 2022b). This constituted a global...

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AIDS and dualism : Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations

Bell, Clive - 2009

"An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model with three overlapping generations and intersectorally mobile labor, in which young adults...

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Simulating the poverty impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005

"Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...

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Policy options for meeting the millennium development goals in Brazil : can micro-simulations help?

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2003

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Alternative development strategies of Korea (1976-1990) in an input-output dynamic simulation model

Gupta, Syamaprasad P. - 1977

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Learning from Disaster Simulation Drills in Japan

World Bank - 2017

emergency response, recovery, and rehabilitation. This report consists of four parts: Introduction (Chapter 1, 2, 3), Simulation … Disaster Management in Japan (Chapter 2), followed by an overview of disaster simulation drills in Japan, particularly focusing … governments (Chapter 3). The following four chapters present examples of simulation drills organized at the national and regional …

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