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Hard Lessons. Primary Schools, Community, and Social Capital in Nigeria.

Francis, P.A. - World Bank Group - 1998

Education is a basic condition for economic and social development. Working in conjunction with the National Primary … Education Commission, the World Bank supported consultations among teachers, parents, educational administrators, and community … leaders to develop a strong foundation for primary education in Nigeria. The innovative work documented in this publication …

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Reforming Education in the Regions of Russia.

Canning, M.; Moock, P.; Heleniak, T. - World Bank Group - 1999

Russia's educational system, with broad access, and high levels of scholarly achievement, has long been a source of strength. The Soviet system, however, was grossly overcentralized, inefficient, and lacking in accountability. In the last decade, attempted rapid decentralization has not been...

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Education Achievements and School Efficiency in Rural Bangladesh.

Khandker, S.R. - World Bank Group - 1996

Bangladesh spends only 2 percent of its GNP on education, compared to 3.2 percent in an average low-income country. Low … investment in education results in low literacy (only 35 percent), which in turn results in low productivity, low incomes, poor … education sector in recent years, with the help of the World Bank and other donor agencies. This paper assesses whether these …

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School Enrollment Decline in Sub-saharan Africa. Beyond the Supply Constraint.

Bredie, J.W.B.; Beeharry, G.K. - World Bank Group - 1998

educational attainment has been a prerequisite for the success of such a strategy. The current level of education development has … been low, and the development of primary education has stagnated and even declined in some countries since the early 1980s …

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Technological Capabilities and Learning in African Enterprises.

Biggs, T.; Shah, M.; Srivastava, P. - World Bank Group - 1995

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Evaluating different approaches to estimating vulnerability

Ligon, Ethan; Schechter, Laura - World Bank Group - 2004

A number of researchers have recently proposed a variety of different `vulnerability'measures designed to capture the welfare consequences of risk for poor households, and also proposed a variety of different approaches to estimating these various measures of household vulnerability. However,...

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Consumption insurance and vulnerability to poverty : a synthesis of the evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia

Skoufias, Emmanuel; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - World Bank Group - 2004

This paper brings together some of the empirical work conducted by IFPRI researchers which investigates linkages among the degree of consumption insurance, households'vulnerability to poverty, and household use of formal and informal coping mechanisms using the same empirical approach in five...

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Is child work necessary?

Bhalotra, Sonia - World Bank Group - 2001

drives children into work. It is argued here that a negative income elasticity only tells us that child leisure (or education …

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How poor are the old? a survey of evidence from 44 countries

Whitehouse, Edward - World Bank Group - 2000

This paper surveys 11 international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution, and the elderly. Although it focuses on OECD economies, some 44 countries are covered. The paper addresses a series of questions. What level are the incomes of the elderly relative to the population as a...

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Earnings inequality in transition economies of Central Europetrends and patterns during the 1990s

Rutkowski, Jan J. - World Bank Group - 2001

relative wages that have underlined the rise in earnings inequality. The paper finds that the widening of earnings distribution … was concentrated in the early phase of transition, and the trend towards greater inequality in most countries tapered off … characterized by high but not exorbitant earnings dispersion. In most transitional economies of Central Europe earnings inequality …

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