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This country note briefly summarizes information relevant to both climate change and agriculture in Colombia, with … America, Colombia has submitted one national communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change … (including land use change and forestry) is significant and not yet sufficiently explored in the country. Colombia does not count …
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"Financial aid to students in tertiary education can contribute to human capital accumulation through two channels--increased enrollment and improved student performance. Canton and Blom analyze the quantitative importance of both channels in the context of a student loan program (SOFES)...
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The World Bank is committed to assisting developing countries raise their educational standards, part of the United Nations millennium development goals. The work includes supporting projects that explore how best to support children staying in school. One recent project was in Cambodia, where...
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Chile's Programa de Credito con Aval del Estado (CAE in its Spanish acronym) is uniquely positioned to help hundreds of thousands of qualified-but-financially-needy Chileans attend and finish tertiary education. The CAE program was designed to improve access to and equity in tertiary education....
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"This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation of the program using a sample of 97 schools...
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