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Do School get Their Money? PAISA 2012
Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2013
The PAISA exercise uses planning and budgeting systems as the entry point, it is an attempt to build an empirical understanding of current governance processes at the grassroots to push for a larger debate on state capacity and administrative capability for building an education delivery...
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Student Learning in South Asia: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Priorities
Dundar, Halil; Béteille, Tara; Riboud, Michelle; … - eSocialSciences - 2014
This report covers education from primary through upper secondary school. Given its importance for school readiness …
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Child Work and Schooling in Rural North India: What do Time Use Data Say about Tradeoffs and Drivers of Human Capital Investment?
Narayanan, Sudha; Dhanraj, Sowmya - eSocialSciences - 2013
rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent in school, time spent at work, time spent on home study and …
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Schooling and Adolescent Reproductive Behaviour in Developing Countries
Lloyd, Cynthia B. - eSocialSciences - 2008
then to explore the potential implications of rising school attendance rates for adolescent reproductive health. This …-enrolled, (2) a review of the evidence on the links between school exit and marriage timing and (3) an assessment of the relative … contribution of school girl pregnancy to overall pregnancy rates and non-enrolled among adolescents. [Paper presented at the Forum …
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The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF - eSocialSciences - 2012
The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of evidence and analysis, from UNICEF and partners, that scarcity and dispossession...
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Primary School Teachers: The Twists and Turns of Everyday Practice
Ramachandran, Vimala; Bhattacharjea, Suman; Sheshagiri, K M - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper examines the role played by of classroom environment in the development of a teacher. The paper studies the concept of 'teacher development' in India. URL:[http://www.eruindia.org/files/Teacher%20booklet%20edited%20final%2028%20Oct%2008.pdf].
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Cost Effectiveness of Interactive Radio Instruction Program Karnataka: Basic and Program Cost Effectiveness
Bakshi, Shubhashansha - eSocialSciences - 2011
The Program CEA extends to the study to an impact analysis of the Radio programs to assess whether the expenditure being made for this intervention is helping the students in improving their learning outcomes. This would then serve as a true measure of effectiveness that is; linking the outreach...
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A Report of Fact Finding Team on Children Rescued from Zari Industry, Delhi and Restored in Their Families in Various Districts in Bihar
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2009
A fact-finding mission was undertaken by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights in June 2006 at the request of the Child Welfare Committee, Nirmal Chhaya, Delhi, to follow-up on the children rescued from the Zari industry in June 2005 and January 2006 by Bachpan Bachao Andolan and Bandhua Mukti Morcha...
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Productivity of Pesticides in Vegetable Farming in Nepal
Jha, Ratna Kumar; Regmi, Adhrit Prasad - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper examines the effectiveness of damage control mechanisms to reduce crop losses from agricultural pests. It uses data from a sample of Cole crop (Cauliflower and Cabbage) growing households in the Bhaktapur district of Nepal to study the impact of pesticides on agriculture production.
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Quietly They Die: A Study of Malnourishment Related Deaths in Mumbai City
Hatekar, Neeraj; Rode, Sanjay - eSocialSciences - 2010
The attention of the media and planners has been focussed almost exclusively on rural and tribal malnutrition. However, malnutrition among urban children, particularly the economically vulnerable slum population has been almost entirely neglected, with the exception of a very few studies. A...
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