economy of the region and also looks ahead to identify the major challenges that remain - focusing on Bangladesh, Pakistan …

The official estimates of poverty in Pakistan have shown a remarkable and consistent decline in the poverty headcount … during the previous decade. This paper examines trends in poverty between 2001 and 2011 using the official food energy intake … and the cost of basic needs approaches, both of which are modified to allow poverty lines to vary over time and space. The …

Unsophisticated applicants can be at a disadvantage under manipulable and hence strategically demanding school choice … admitted at a particular school, and hence may level the playing field between applicants who differ in their cognitive ability …

work, household chores, and school related activities of Guatemalan children between 2000 and 2011. The paper also exploits … information on the duration of schooling in order to compute survival probabilities or the probability of dropping out of school … conditional on having stayed in school for time t. Results suggest that working children are two to four times more likely to drop …

implementation, evaluation, and needed recalibration of the management of school clusters; (3) teacher recruitment, training, and …

This study combines household survey data from the Beninese Demographic and Health Survey with school supply statistics … in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost … unparalleled increases in enrolment since the 1990s, Benin remains virtually ignored in the literature surveying school attendance …

This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with … unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both … their primary and lower secondary school exam records, allowing three out of four assumptions imposed in standard value …

Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school …