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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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What we can learn from a comparison of the schooling systems of South Africa and Argentina
Gustafsson, Martin; Morduchowicz, Alejandro - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2008
-country analysis that takes into account a secondary school completion ratio (a statistic calculated for this analysis) suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523207
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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - eSocialSciences - 2005
In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive programme based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60...
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Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael; … - The Field Experiments Website - 2006
We report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya: 1 … education by paying for school uniforms reduced dropout rates, teen marriage, and childbearing. …
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Colonisation, School and Development in Africa. An empirical analysis
Cogneau, Denis - DIAL - 2003
Macroeconomic data on 45 countries are combined with microeconomic data on 4 case-study countries to reveal significant differences in the levels of education attained under the different colonial powers in Africa during the colonial period. In 1960, former British colonies exhibited higher...
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School Exclusion as Social Exclusion: The Practices And Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programme for the Poor in Bangladesh
Hossain, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2009
rural poor into school. It documents how the objects of policy – rural poor children and parents - are ‘seen’ by the …
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Elegance with substance
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
impossible to provide good didactics on what is inherently illogical. Basic observations: We would presume that school … reasoning, they all are hindered and obstructed. Mathematics forms a core element in education and destroys much of school life … of pupils and students in their formative years. Basic analysis: This situation arises not because it is only school math …
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Johnny Walks to School - Does Jane? Sex Differences in Children's Active Travel to School
McMillan, Tracy; Day, Kristen; Boarnet, Marlon; … - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2006
. Recently, however, there has been an international focus on the trip to school as an opportunity to enhance childrenâ … examined the influence of child sex on caregivers’ decisions about travel mode choice to school. Caregivers of children in … grades three to five from ten California Safe Routes to School communities were surveyed on their child’s normal travel …
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Budget for Children in CM’s ‘Caring City’! A Brief analysis of the Delhi Budget 2012-13
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2012
Status of Children in India’s Capital. [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13%20final.pdf].
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Interrogating 'Best Practices' for the Implementation of School Nutrition Programme in Urban India
Priya, Shankar; Natasha S. K. - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study examines the differences between two major Mid-day Meal implementation models: the decentralized model where food is cooked and served within the schools premises, and the centralized model where an external organization, often through a public-private partnership, cooks and delivers...
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