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The purpose of this learning strategy is to develop a structured process of generating, sharing, capturing, and … disseminating knowledge about what works in scaling up and sustaining sanitation programs. The authors are undertaking this learning … process in order to enable evidence-based decisions by policy-makers and implementation of large-scale programs. The learning …
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heterogeneity among a sample of small urban retail shops in Indonesia, and experimentally tests whether learning about the best … simply distributed to a randomly selected sample of shop owners and complemented with three experiential learning modules … coupled with experiential learning. On business performance, the study finds sizable and significant improvements as well, up …
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Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …
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The sound of children's voices reciting in unison could be heard from afar, as our mission approached a school in rural Cambodia. Inside a second-grade classroom, students took turns at the blackboard. One pointed with a stick at a list of words written by the teacher, while the rest recited. A...
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worryingly high. More than five million youths have failed to complete a basic education. Alternative Learning System (ALS) is a … analyzes (a) the target populations, (b) current beneficiaries, (c) delivery modes (with a focus on learning facilitators …
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at scale to provide online learning when all or many schools are closed. Related 'good practices' are considered rare … of learners and education systems across the so-called 'developing world'. That said, it is possible to extrapolate from …
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Before the outbreak of the global novel coronavirus pandemic, the world was already dealing with a learning crisis, as … utilize remote learning to manage and cope with the crisis. The World Bank is actively working with Ministries of Education in … evidenced by high levels of Learning Poverty. With the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), among many disruptions to …
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Is TV-based learning during COVID-19 school closures in Bangladesh reaching students? Most students (86 percent) within … our sample of more than 2,000 Grade 9 stipend recipients are aware of government provided TV-based learning programs; yet … access to government provided online learning programs, and among those that do, only about 2 percent choose to access them …
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Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate how private and public information affect the selection of an innovation and the timing of adoption. The results shed light on the behavioral anomaly called the "energy-efficiency gap" in which consumers and firms delay adoption of...
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