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 …

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 …

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

I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian … proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I … also find that consolidation increased school enrolment in a village by 2 per cent- in particular, girls' enrolment …

the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda's nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of …. -- gender ; agricultural investment ; land administration ; Rwanda …

-integrated communities as it takes time to break existing social bonds and destroy social capital. I draw on the case of Rwanda's 1994 … international policy makers responding to ongoing genocides. -- genocide ; violence ; intervention ; Rwanda …

This paper examines the political economy of Rwanda's Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme, concluding that strong government …

This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …

Rwanda and Burundi have both emerged from civil wars over the past 20 years and foreign donors have provided … significant contributions to post-conflict reconstruction and development in the two countries. Yet although Rwanda and Burundi … different. The paper argues that the nature of the ruling parties in Rwanda and Burundi is key to understanding the countries …

The disappearance of Rwanda' forests and attendant change in climatic conditions prompted the government to explore … clean energy alternatives such as biogas. Unlike at any other time in Rwanda's history, more and more Rwandans in rural … areas are becoming owners of cattle because of Government of Rwanda's agricultural direct assistance and poverty reduction …