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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions
McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel; Glassman, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012
Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
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Public Expenditure on Education : A Review of Selected Issues and Evidence
Mukherjee, Anit N - eSocialSciences - 2007
The role of education in economic development has been recognised for quite some time in mainstream economic literature …. Divergence between the private and social rate of return from education is the rationale for intervention by the state in … schooling and better quality of workforce will lead to an increase in the rate of growth, further strengthening the case for …
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Emerging Asia's Middle Class-A Force to be Reckoned With
Dyck, Steffen; Hansakul, Syetarn; Saxena, Rachna - eSocialSciences - 2009
The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that the Asian consumer will replace the US as “world consumer of last resortâ€,...
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Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2007
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2008
the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to …
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Aam Admi Budget Bypasses India’s Children
H, Juhi - eSocialSciences - 2009
Money for Education, Health, Child Protection not enough for 400 million children’s basic rights …
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - eSocialSciences - 2007
The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. [IZA Discussion Paper No. 115].
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Early Childhood Education
Reeta, Sonawat - eSocialSciences - 2007
Early childhood education is a widely accepted term to describe a program aimed at providing all round development for … profit from schooling during this period. Enriched environment is to be provided for the receptive mind of the child. …
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Learning about Schools in Development
Kenny, Charles - eSocialSciences - 2010
help overcome remaining demand-side barriers to enrollment. Nonetheless, the quality of education appears very poor across … the developing world, limiting development impact. Thus we should measure and promote learning not schooling. Conditional … the broader environment in which students live, suggesting a learning agenda that stretches far beyond education …
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The Effect of Breastfeeding on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Sibling Data
Duran, Denizhan - eSocialSciences - 2013
Using data on sibling pairs drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of having been breastfed on high school graduation, high school grades, and college attendance. Our results suggest that breastfeeding is associated with substantial increases in...
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Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2007
The essay is to provides a detailed overview of the state of the recent empirical literature on why and how children work as well as the consequences of that work. It provides a descriptive overview of how children spend their time in low income coutries, most common type of work, influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341804