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Do School get Their Money? PAISA 2012
Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2013
The PAISA exercise uses planning and budgeting systems as the entry point, it is an attempt to build an empirical understanding of current governance processes at the grassroots to push for a larger debate on state capacity and administrative capability for building an education delivery...
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Backward and Forward Linkages that Strengthen Primary Education
Ramachandran, Vimala - eSocialSciences - 2008
dimension. Children do not attend school regularly, and even if they do, they do not learn very much because of a range of … of teachers and quality of schools. Once children reach school, a variety of factors determine whether they will continue … can get back to school. All these factors are mediated in the larger context of social and gender relations in the …
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Girl Child and Education
Kruijtbosch, Martine - eSocialSciences - 2008
The formal school is seen as the only means of withdrawing all children from work. Furthermore, in the case of girls …, formal school prevents them from getting into child marriage. Schooling is recognised as playing a crucial role in the …
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Position Paper on National Focus Group: Aims of Education
Nair, K.N.; Miri, Mrinalini; Mathur, Jayshree; Jain, Sharada - eSocialSciences - 2007
For a fairly long time now, we have been engaged in the great task of educating the children of India, an independent nation with a rich variegated history, extraordinarily complex cultural diversity, and commitment to democratic values and general well-being. Given the enormity and importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699284
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Participatory Equity, Identity, and Productivity Policy Implications for Promoting Development
Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2007
from an NGO-run school in Calcutta to illustrate the role of a school child’s sense of ‘belonging’ in determining how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699305
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Consciousness in Transition: A Case Study of Social Identity Formation in KwaZulu-Natal Study Description and Methodology
Marcus, T; Manicom, Desireé - In: Sociological Research Online 4 (2000) 4
The aim of this article is to describe the Class Race and Gender (CRG) Research Programme. The CRG research programme aims to explore the development of consciousness in South Africa, to understand how we come to be the black and white, rural and urban, rich and poor and men and women who make...
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The External Effects of Black-Male Incarceration on Black Females
Mechoulan, Stéphane - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006
single Black women’s school attainment and early employment. We do not find consistent evidence that high Black male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771698
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Overview of School Education in Delhi
Gupta, Soumya - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper presents an overview of school education in Delhi. [Working Paper No. 0068] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008455847
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Quietly They Die: A Study of Malnourishment Related Deaths in Mumbai City
Hatekar, Neeraj; Rode, Sanjay - eSocialSciences - 2010
The attention of the media and planners has been focussed almost exclusively on rural and tribal malnutrition. However, malnutrition among urban children, particularly the economically vulnerable slum population has been almost entirely neglected, with the exception of a very few studies. A...
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Evaluating the Impact of School Decentralization on Education Quality
Galiani, Sebastian; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 2001
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