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"Hoekman and Javorcik focus on policies facilitating firm adjustment to globalization. They briefly review the effects of trade and investment liberalization on firms, focusing on within-industry effects. They postulate that governments' role in supporting the process is to (1) ensure that firms...
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This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...
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with the right government policies: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship …
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worryingly high. More than five million youths have failed to complete a basic education. Alternative Learning System (ALS) is a … analyzes (a) the target populations, (b) current beneficiaries, (c) delivery modes (with a focus on learning facilitators …
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measures put in place to ensure continuity of learning. These include the Survey of Ministries of Education on National … available on how students' learning is being affected by the disruptions caused by the pandemic or on the impact of education … simulations of potential learning losses due to COVID-19 and exploration of their longer-term implications. The analysis is based …
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All children should be able to read by age 10. Reading is a gateway for learning as the child progresses through school … - and conversely, an inability to read constrains opportunities for further learning. Reading proficiency is also critical … for foundational learning in other subjects. In low- and middle-income countries, more than half the children cannot read …
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term learning recovery focused interventions as well as longer term interventions aimed at strengthening system resilience …This brief summarizes the state of student learning outcomes in Myanmar before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and … presents retrospective estimates of the losses in learning and future earnings of students resulting from the disruptions …
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can play. Not only do they want to use technology to directly aid learning, but they also want to ensure that students in …
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is widespread belief that ICTs can and will empower teachers and learners, transforming teaching and learning processes … from being highly teacher-dominated to student-centered, and that this transformation will result in increased learning …
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