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The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2008
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2009
A bill to provide for free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002697
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493864
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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
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 afflict the poorest and most marginalized children and families disproportionately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652074
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945413
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School Exclusion as Social Exclusion: The Practices And Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programme for the Poor in Bangladesh
Hossain, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2009
rural poor into school. It documents how the objects of policy – rural poor children and parents - are ‘seen’ by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976650
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Aspirations, Segregation and Occupational Choice
Mookherjee, Dilip; Napel, Stefan; Ray, Debraj - eSocialSciences - 2008
locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether or not to educate their children. The model therefore combines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341735
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Book Review: Visualizing Children: Images and Imagination
Lerner, Loren - eSocialSciences - 2008
Review of Erika Langmuir Imagining Childhood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10131-7.
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Mortality, the Family and the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Gillespie, Thomas; Preston, Samuel - eSocialSciences - 2011
, parents and children, while women helped their children. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/311.pdf]. …, Indonesia, before and after the tsunami. Children, older adults and females were the least likely to survive. Whereas socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323704
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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra - eSocialSciences - 2011
‐appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read‐athon. [Working paper No. 305]. URL: [http …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323719
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Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2009 (Provisional)
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2010
measure the change in these basic learning and school statistics from last year. Every year a core set of questions regarding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512483