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Education and HIV / AIDS : A Window of Hope
World Bank - 2013
The paper highlights that the education of children, and youth merits the highest priority in a world afflicted by HIV …/AIDS, specifically because a good basic education ranks among the most effective - and cost-effective - means of HIV prevention. It also … merits priority because the very education system that supplies a nation's future, is being greatly threatened by the …
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Ghana country assistance review : a study in development effectiveness
Armstrong, Robert Pritchard - 1996
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Ghana - Capacity Development and Utilization Initiative
World Bank - 2012
The widely-acclaimed Economic Recovery Program launched by Ghana in 1983 faced the challenge of sustaining the gains … address a number of national capacity issues that had constrained Ghana's development efforts since independence in 1957 …
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The effect of school type on academic achievement : evidence from Indonesia
Newhouse, David - 2005
"Using data from Indonesia, Newhouse and Beegle to evaluate the impact of school type on academic achievement of junior secondary school students (grades 7-9). Students that graduate from public junior secondary schools, controlling for a variety of other characteristics, score 0.15 to 0.3...
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Pakistan : Can Low-Cost Private Schools Improve Learning?
World Bank - 2014
Education is central to giving children the building blocks for a life free of poverty. When schools fail to deliver … quality education, children are left without the skills and knowledge they need to realize their capabilities and become … productive adults. This isn't just a problem of insufficient supplies or poor facilities. Policymakers and education experts in …
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Linking up and reaching out in Bangladesh : information and communications technology for microfinance
Bagazonzya, Henry K. (contributor) - 2010
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The new microfinance handbook : a financial market system perspective
Nelson, Candace (contributor);  … - 2013
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Economic and social impacts of self-help groups in india
Deininger, Klaus W. - 2009
"Although there has been considerable recent interest in micro-credit programs, rigorous evidence on the impacts of forming self-help groups to mobilize savings and foster social empowerment at the local level is virtually non-existent, despite a large number of programs following this pattern....
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Longer-term economic impacts of self-help groups in India
Deininger, Klaus W. - 2009
"Despite the popularity and unique nature of women's self-help groups in India, evidence of their economic impacts is scant. Based on two rounds of a 2,400 household panel, the authors use double differences, propensity score matching, and pipeline comparison to assess economic impacts of longer...
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Are women more credit constrained? : experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
De Mel, Suresh J. - 2008
"This paper analyzes data from a randomized experiment on mean returns to capital in Sri Lankan micro-enterprises. The findings show greater returns among men than among women; indeed, returns were not different from zero for women. The authors explore different explanations for the lower...
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