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-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …
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The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …
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. Limited resources mean that policymakers must make tough choices about which investments to make to improve education …. Although hundreds of education interventions have been rigorously evaluated, making comparisons between the results is … for reporting gains from education interventions. The paper applies LAYS to compare the effectiveness (and cost …
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the effectiveness of financial education in low and middle income countries. The two activities and their staging have …, there is little robust empirical evidence that financial education can improve it. While applying the financial capability …
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Quality education is a critical dimension for the achievement of sustainable development. The renewed political … commitment set out in sustainable development goal 4 (SDG4) is an opportunity to ensure strong coherence between education policy … and the right to education first articulated more than 70 years ago. This paper presents the results of a desk-based study …
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This note provides an overview of South Africa's education system and learning outcomes. It reviews early childhood … development, basic education, and higher education (university education and vocational training). It is a review of available …
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The number of countries that regularly participate in international large-scale assessments has increased sharply over the past 15 years, with the share of countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment growing from one-fifth of countries in 2000 to over one-third...
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Given its modest position as a lower-middle-income country, Vietnam stands out from the rest of the world with its remarkable performance on standardized test scores, school enrollment, and completed years of schooling. This paper provides an overview of the factors behind this exemplary...
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complete their primary education lacking even basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills-the so-called "learning crisis … and pedagogical knowledge on student achievement. These findings point to an urgent need for improvements in education …-experimental literature on education in low-income countries can be interpreted and understood, and point to important gaps in knowledge, with …
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Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools comprised of a … data is described in section three. The impacts of the ROSC project on education outcomes as measured by student enrolment …
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