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Elementary education in India versus China: Guidelines for NEP implementation
Kumar, Naveen; Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from …'s New Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). The divergent policy focus has led to differential trajectories for elementary … education in the two emerging economies, with China being decades ahead in improving literacy rates. China's adoption of the New …
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Unconditional cash transfers, child labour and education : theory and evidence
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Iqbal, Nasir; Nawaz, Saima; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 186 (2021), pp. 437-457
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Elementary education in India versus China : guidelines for NEP implementation
Kumar, Naveen; Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from …'s New Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). The divergent policy focus has led to differential trajectories for elementary … education in the two emerging economies, with China being decades ahead in improving literacy rates. China's adoption of the New …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259892
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Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2007
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2008
the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341679
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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions
McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel; Glassman, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012
Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
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Impact of the right to education on school enrolment of children with disabilities : evidence from India
Varghese, Vinitha Rachel - 2022
I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … study estimation and an interrupted time series research design and find that the Right to Education Act led to a 60 per …
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - eSocialSciences - 2007
The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. [IZA Discussion Paper No. 115].
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Private Schooling in India: A New Educational Landscape
Desai, Sonalde; Dubey, Amaresh; Vanneman, Reeve; … - In: India Policy Forum 5 (2008) 1, pp. 1-58
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Historical Factors in the Process of Educational Deprivation of Children: The Case of Telangana Region of Nizam’s Hyderabad State
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The present study explores the historical sources of educational deprivation of children in Telangana region of the Andhra Pradesh during its pre-independence period. Telangana was part of Nizam’s Hyderabad state prior to independence and later independent Hyderbad state until it was unified...
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Does Child Work Decrease with Parental Income?: The Luxury Axiom Revisited in India
Kambhampati, Uma - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2004
effect is mitigated by an increase in mother's wages. Second, mother's education (rather than employment or wates0 is the …In this paper, we analyse the determinants of child work and schooling in rural India within a bivariate probit … is whether an increase in the wages earned by fathers and mothers in our sample would help decrease the work done by …
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