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School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … helping children enroll on time, complete their education, and realize their cognitive potential. Achieving these goals … depends on reaching the children most in need. One strong feature of school health and nutrition programs is that they benefit …
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sector, which encompasses both health and education. The World Bank's Human Development sector work covers almost the entire … human life cycle, from maternal and neo-natal health, health insurance, early childhood education, school health and … nutrition, basic education, to teacher reform, secondary education and youth skills, higher education, medical and health …
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-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … positively linked to individual life satisfaction. This evidence supplements the scarce economic research on reference groups …
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Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails a fleeting transition from childhood to adulthood,...
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"Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps between male and female-owned businesses, while controlling for location by industry and country. The findings show that female entrepreneurs have a significantly smaller scale of...
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"Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors …? The authors estimate private and public sector wage earnings using 1996 household survey data, while controlling for … sector. Workers in the public sector earn higher private rates of return to education than do private sector workers with …
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transition -- Learning environment and outcomes -- Education expenditure and financing -- Disparity -- Education governance and … management -- Improving education: the cost of policy choices -- Appendices -- Appendix 2.1. Smoothing of the Sierra Leone …
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Demographic and Health Survey in 2000, he shows that excess mortality was extremely high and heavily concentrated during 1974 … males, the age and education differences between partners tended to decline. The period had a lasting impact on the … educational attainment of the population. The education system collapsed during the period, so individuals--especially males …
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