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Achieving SDG4 through a Human Rights Based Approach to Education
Moriarty, Kate - 2017
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...
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Education for Growth and Prosperity
Kim, Jim Yong - 2017
Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, explained that the MENA Concessional Financing Facility, an innovative approach to addressing the Syrian refugee crisis, has been re-envisioned as a Global Facility to address displacement crises in any middle-income country in the world. He spoke...
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Malaysia's economic growth and transition to high income : an application of the World Bank Long Term Growth Model (LTGM)
Devadas, Sharmila; Guzman, Jorge; Kim, Young Eun; … - 2020
This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
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Do IFC Investments Reduce Poverty by Creating Jobs? : A Case Study of a Manufacturing Investment in Indonesia
Datar, Gayatri - 2012
. Based on qualitative interviews in Batam, this expected. The investment resulted in the employment of many high-paid workers …
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Constraints on Productivity and Investment in Indonesia's Manufacturing Sector : Survey-based Analysis of Business Constraints
Ing, Lili Yan - 2012
characteristics of a growth-enhancing business climate. In Indonesia, some of these elements are missing, which challenges firms …' operations. This note discusses the main constraints that Indonesia's manufacturing firms face, shows that these differ depending … Indonesia, but also one for the private sector. It is the Government's responsibility to set clear business regulations, as well …
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Addressing high school dropouts with a scalable intervention : the case of PODER
Avitabile, Ciro; Cuevas, Janina; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; … - 2019
Working with the Mexican Ministry of Education, this study piloted a scalable program to reduce high school dropout rates by focusing on socio-emotional skill development and mathematics tutoring. The intervention was evaluated through a randomized field experiment with more than 5,000 youths at...
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Supporting teacher autonomy to improve education outcomes : experimental evidence from Brazil
Piza, Caio; Zwager, Astrid; Ruzzante, Matteo; Dantas, Rafael - 2020
What is the impact of greater teacher autonomy on student learning? This paper provides experimental evidence from a program in Brazil. The program supported teachers, through a combination of technical assistance and a small grant, to autonomously develop and implement an innovative project...
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The targeting benefit of conditional cash transfers
Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William - 2020
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a popular type of social welfare program that make payments to households conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low-income households as access is tied to normal...
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The lost human capital : teacher knowledge and student achievement in Africa
Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Svensson, Jakob - 2019
In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...
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Progress and challenges of upper secondary education in China
Chen, Dandan; Fu, Ning; Pan, Yilin - 2019
Over the past decade, China's transition rate from lower secondary education to higher secondary education has increased significantly, from 80.5 to 93.7 percent. In light of this impressive progress, the Chinese government aimed at raising the gross enrollment rate in senior high schools to...
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