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World Development Report 2018 : Learning to Realize Education's Promise

2017

development. The 2018 WDR-LEARNING to Realize Education's Promise-is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is … right: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social … promote education. The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: First, education's promise: education is a powerful instrument for …

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How effective are early grade reading interventions? : a review of the evidence

Graham, Jimmy; Kelly, Sean - 2018

It is imperative that students learn to read in the early grades, yet many fail to do so in developing countries. Early grade reading interventions have emerged as a common means to attempt to address this problem. This paper presents a definition of early grade reading interventions as...

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Sharing the benefits of innovation-digitization : a summary of market processes and policy suggestions

Islam, Roumeen - 2018

supporting demand growth, public support to education and reskilling, infrastructure provision for the digitization age, and …

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Are public sector workers in developing countries overpaid? : evidence from a new global data set

Gindling, Thomas; Hasnain, Zahid; Newhouse, David Locke; … - 2019

with less education, those working in lower paid occupations, and those whose earnings fall in the lower part of the …

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Clientelism in the public sector : why public service reforms fail and what to do about it

Bold, Tessa; Molina, Ezequiel; Safir, Abla - 2018

In many developing countries (and beyond), public sector workers are not just simply implementers of policies designed by the politicians in charge of supervising them-so called agents and principals, respectively. Public sector workers can have the power to influence whether politicians are...

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Female genital cutting, women's health and development : the role of the World Bank

Rogo, Khama O. - 2007

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Is Predicted Data a Viable Alternative to Real Data?

Fujii, Tomoki - 2016

It is costly to collect the household- and individual-level data that underlies official estimates of poverty and health. For this reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimates of poverty and health regularly, even though these estimates are most needed...

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Synergies in Child Nutrition : Interactions of Food Security, Health and Environment, and Child Care

Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2016

This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition-food security; adequate caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic environment-on their own and interactively are...

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Costs of Adapting to Climate Change for Human Health in Developing Countries

Pandey, Kiran - 2010

This paper is one component of a global study on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) in developing countries; the focus in this paper is human health. The main human health impacts of climate change are increased incidence of vector-borne disease (malaria), water-borne disease...

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Geographic Hotspots for World Bank Action on Climate Change and Health

World Bank - 2017

In the last five years, the number of voices calling for stronger international action on climate change and health has increased, as has the scale and depth of activities. But current global efforts in climate and health are inadequately integrated. As a result, actions to address climate...

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