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bilateral development agencies, aimed at including disability in development. Development that includes disability, as … beneficiaries. It can be achieved by disability specific initiatives, by adding disability-specific components to development … programs, by fully inclusive programming, designed to include disability concerns into all development processes, or by a …
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This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in … of parents with a disability have a lower enrollment rate in primary and secondary school of about 8 percentage points …: 73 percent compared with 81 percent. However, the association of parental disability with educational performance is …
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Despite a sharp increase in the share of girls who enroll in, attend, and complete various levels of schooling, an educational gender gap remains in some countries. This paper argues that one explanation for this gender gap is the degree of social exclusion within these countries, as indicated...
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This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It uses the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International database, which includes...
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This paper reviews a small community-based school feeding program launched in Togo in response to the 2007/08 food price crisis. The discussion focuses on the operational and policy lessons emerging from the program, to better understand opportunities for scale up and sustainability in the...
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Negative attitudes toward groups in society are widespread and underpin systematic processes of social exclusion that marginalize people and deny them opportunities and dignity. This paper looks at the processes underlying social exclusion. It uses data covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia...
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Disability and poverty are dynamic and intricately linked phenomena. In developed countries, a large body of empirical … disabilities and their households in 2003 in the countries under study, it can inform national disability policies. Finally, this … study can also inform future data and research efforts on disability in developing countries. This study is structured as …
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The objectives of this paper are: i) to present the record of World Bank's involvement in disability as part of its … the further mainstreaming of disability into the work of the Bank. The Bank's comparative advantage in supporting … disability interventions lies in its capacity to address complex, multi-sectoral issues in a consistent, coordinated, fiscally …
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disability and poverty.The authors find that using standard assumptions about the distribution of household consumption among … typically do not include any questions about the disability status of household members. Only in one region of the Bank's work …
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In order to answer the questions of (a) what is the true pattern of disability in Kazakhstan; (b) whether the incidence … of disability is decreasing; and (c) what is the life expectancy of Kazakhstan's disabled, this paper attempts first to … create an historical picture of disability in Kazakhstan by analyzing government population statistics and studying the …
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