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Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare
Mundle, Sudipto - 2018
This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that spread across and within countries over 50 years. Apart from differences in initial conditions and income levels, the nature of the state has also been an important determinant of...
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Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia : the role of decentralization
Sari, Virgi - 2018
suggests decentralization has facilitated collusion between village authorities and marginalized private schools, with … substantial increases in educational assistance and financial resources, especially to religious schools. Despite dominant rent …-seeking behaviour and self-interest motives, increased public resource allocation to private schools impacted positively on student …
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Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement : evidence from India
Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
state of Rajasthan. Across the years 2014, 2016, and 2017, Rajasthan merged many of its grade 1-5 schools with grade 6 …-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education … government orders on consolidation and administrative data on schools, I rule-out that consolidation had a negative impact on …
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Elementary education in India versus China : guidelines for NEP implementation
Kumar, Naveen; Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from China's shift in focus from 'quantity' to 'quality', and evidencebased guidelines for effective implementation of India's New Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). The divergent...
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Impact of the right to education on school enrolment of children with disabilities : evidence from India
Varghese, Vinitha Rachel - 2022
all grades. I also provide suggestive evidence that the estimate is not driven by an increase in the number of schools or … in disability-friendly ramps within schools. …
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The success of learnerships? : lessons from South Africa's training and education programme
Rankin, Neil; Roberts, Gareth; Schöer, Volker - 2014
Vocational training programmes, like South Africa's learnership programme, which combine classroom learning and on-the-job training seem like the type of intervention which can create skills, get young people into jobs quicker, and reduce youth unemployment. This paper uses a longitudinal...
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Inequality in education : evidence for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; García Domench, Carolina; … - 2011
This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on the differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including...
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Private beats public : a flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchers
Brandt, Kasper - 2018
-added models to be relaxed. The preferred coefficient estimate suggests private secondary schools, on average, increase student …
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Improving parenting practices for early child development : experimental evidence from Rwanda
Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Rolla, Pierfrancesco; … - 2020
This paper investigates the short- and medium-term impact of a randomized groupbased early child development programme targeting parents of children aged six to 24 months in a poor, rural district of Rwanda. The programme engaged parents through sessions that included a radio show and...
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Fragmenting the family? : the complexity of household migration strategies in post-apartheid South Africa
Hall, Katharine; Posel, Dorrit - 2018
The disruption of family life is one of the important legacies of South Africa's colonial and apartheid history. Families were undermined by deliberate strategies implemented through the pass laws, forced removals, urban housing policy, and the creation of the homelands. Despite the removal of...
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