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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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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 …
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This paper examines multiple facets of New Delhi's development cooperation with countries in Africa and argues that grassroots organizations in India that find innovative, low-cost technological solutions to developmental challenges can help governments and multilateral agencies craft inclusive,...
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education programmes in emerging democracies? After more than a decade of evaluations of civic education programmes, it is a … the late 1990s, and summarize their most important findings and lessons learned. It will be shown that civic education … education is not being realized in practice. I conclude with a discussion of current developments in the field, as a significant …
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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 ; foreign aid ; effectiveness ; multilateral ; bilateral ; ODA …
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are still lagging behind in important human development goals such as education, health, nutrition and access to clean …
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inequality in education is more likely to affect the aid allocation of donor countries with female leadership in the relevant … ministry. We find no evidence for a needs-based allocation of aid for education. Female as well as male leaders appear to have …
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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 …
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students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
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education levels. We find that the gender earnings gap increases with the educational level. For instance, at 40 years of age …, women without high school degrees earned on average 28.8 per cent less than men with the same level of education and for the …
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