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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 …
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milestone that opens doors to higher education and in developing countries especially, increases employment opportunities. The …
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, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … farther from schools, and whose adult members experienced negative returns to their own education. This evidence suggests that …
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"Many educators and policymakers have argued for lenient grade promotion policy - even automatic promotion - in developing country settings where grade retention rates are high. The argument assumes that grade retention discourages persistence or continuation in school and that the promotion of...
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Venezuela from instrumental variables based on a supply-side intervention in the education market. These estimates apply to a … education reform (the Organic Law of Education) which provided for nine years of compulsory basic education. They also obtain … alternative estimates using father's education as an instrument, in an attempt to derive high and low estimates of returns to …
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"Vermeersch and Kremer examine the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school finance in a developing country setting. They use data from a program that was implemented in 25 randomly chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school...
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' education had no environmental impact on children's schooling. Interestingly, mothers' education matters more for girls, while … fathers' education is more important for boys. Finally, an important policy recommendation in the African context emerges from … larger effort in the group to understand the determinants of education and its intergenerational transmission"--World Bank …
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In the last 15 years, Indonesia has introduced a comprehensive package of education reforms designed to expand access … and improve quality. A key component of the reform process has been the devolution of responsibility for basic education … services to local governments and schools. The ability of local governments to deliver good quality basic education services …
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