This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …

Education began to be included as a component of foreign assistance in the early 1960s as it is a principal ingredient … education aid, examines their effectiveness, discusses major problems in implementing educational programmes and suggests ways … to improve aid in education. …

Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic and …

Community-based development has been criticized for its inadequate understanding of power relationships at the local … power seriously in their institutional designs. The solar home system in Bangladesh, represents the 'counter-elite' approach …

The food crisis of 2008 in Nigeria was influenced by price changes in the world market and the escalation of the price … of imported fuel into Nigeria which led to sharp increases in the prices of agricultural inputs and transportation cost …

This paper analyses the role of foreign aid to assist development in two oil-rich countries: Indonesia and Nigeria … 1960s into one of the 'Asian Tigers' in the mid-1990s, and why it did not prevent Nigeria from falling into 'African …

This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female … bargaining power is proxied by female say on labor income, rather than by female income per se. This is motivated by the fact …

Horizontal inequality by ethnic group has remained remarkably persistent for wealth, education, and access to certain … services in Nigeria. While significant gains in the reduction of inequality and improvement in access have been made for more … locally administered services, outcomes are stickier and largely divergent for wealth, education, and historically federally …

integration increase? This paper uses public opinion data from urban Nigeria to investigate how an individual's social position …