Download or read book School Construction Strategies for Universal Primary Education in Africa written by Serge Theunynck and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School Construction Strategies for Universal Primary Education in Africa' examines the scope of the infrastructure challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa and the constraints to scaling up at an affordable cost. It assesses the experiences of African countries with school planning, school facility designs, and construction techniques, procurement and implementation arrangements over the past thirty years. It reviews the roles of the various actors in the implementation process: central and deconcentrated administrations, local governments, agencies, social funds, NGOs, and local communities. Drawing upon extensive analysis of data from over 200 250 projects sponsored by the World Bank and other donor agencies, the book draws lessons on promising approaches to enable African countries to scale up the facilities required to achieve the EFA goals and MDGs of complete quality primary education for all children at the lowest marginal cost.
Download or read book Diagnosing the Philippine Economy written by Dante B. Canlas and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Diagnosing the Philippine Economy’ describes the conditions that depress economic growth in the Philippine economy and their causes and potential solutions. The studies’ findings provide insight for politicians, academicians, and economists into the issues and their potential solutions.
Download or read book Investment and Interventions to Improve the Quality of Education Systems written by Jin Chi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality improvement is a major current goal of Education in China and this will be achieved through overall quality improvement of the education system as a whole, a situation that is also the case across the world. Deploying a cost-benefit analysis and multidisciplinary perspectives from education, economics, neurocognition, gender studies, child development, and international development, this book presents a range of critical interventions in education development and investment that have proven to be effective in many countries around the world. The book draws on theoretical and practical experience in the field of education investment and analyses key issues in China's early childhood education, early reading, girls' education, brain science application in international education, small-scale schools in low income areas and teacher education. Students and scholars of education and development and Chinese education will benefit from this title.
Download or read book Contemporary Demographic Transformations in China India and Indonesia written by Christophe Z. Guilmoto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the profound demographic transformation affecting China, India, and Indonesia, where 40% of the world's people live. It offers a systematic, comparative approach that will help readers to better understand the changing social and regional recomposition of the population in these regions. The chapters present a detailed investigation and mapping of regional trends in mortality, fertility, migration and urbanization, education, and aging. Throughout, the analysis carefully considers how these trends affect economic and social development. Coverage also raises global, theoretical questions about the singular ways in which each of these three countries have achieved their demographic transition. As the authors reveal, demographic trends seem to be somewhat linear and anticipatable, providing Asia’s three demographic giants and their governments a formidable advantage in planning for the future. But the evolution of human mobility in China, India, and Indonesia, closely intertwined as it is with changing economic conditions, appears less predictable and ranks high among the major challenges to demographic knowledge in the coming decades. Offering an insightful look into the components, implications, and regional variations of a changing population, this book will appeal to social scientists, demographers, anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and specialists in Asian studies.
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Download or read book Counting the Full Cost written by Mark Bray and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collaborative report focuses on nine countries in East Asia: Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. While acknowledging that these countries share some common features, the report also highlights each country's particular characteristics and the implications of certain policies within specific cultural contexts. The discussion is chiefly concerned with formal education at the primary and secondary levels, but also includes out-of-school supplementary tutoring, which in some societies is a major expenditure. While cash financing of education gains much of the attention, the study also recognizes demands for materials and labor and that the full costs of education include the opportunity costs of foregone earnings. The work is based on existing literature on the countries, questions sent to UNICEF officers responsible for education projects in the nine countries, information available in the World Bank on the countries, and the author's personal experience in the region. Chapters include: (1) "Issues"; (2) "Profiles of Nine East Asian Countries"; (3) "Policy Implications"; and (4) "Conclusion." The volume concludes with 27 tables of country data, notes, and contains 135 references. (EH)
Download or read book Good Times and Bad Times in Rural Java written by J. Breman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The causes of the Asian economic crisis have been the subject of fierce debates among economists, yet little is known about the impact on employment and wellbeing. In Indonesia, the worst affected country, the malaise turned into a political and societal upheaval which brought an end to the New Order regime. Based on anthropological fieldwork in two villages along the coast of West Java, the monograph discusses the repercussions for work and welfare in the rural hinterland. The authors criticize the policies of the government of Indonesia as well as those of other transnational agencies on what has happened and what should be done. Their micro-study on socio-economic dynamics in two localities, researched in a longitudinal perspective, argues that since the start of the crisis the poverty level, then already much higher than officially conceded, rose to include more than half of all households. In contrast to the received wisdom that the village still functions as a community, the crisis has widened the gap between the rural rich and poor. The fieldwork findings are held to justify conclusions for areas with similar structural characteristics: densely populated, with a highly skewed pattern of land distribution, long-distance labour circulation between city and countryside and involving a substantial part of the total workforce, especially the landpoor and the landless.
Download or read book Journal of Economic Literature written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Priorities and Strategies for Education written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Education is critical to economic growth and poverty reduction, especially as labor market structures shift dramatically with changing technology and economic reform. This paper reviews the literature and data on the contribution of education to development and on the financing of education in developing countries. It outlines policy options and reforms for increasing access to education and for improving equity and efficiency in educational services. Also available: French (ISBN 0-8213-3410-7) Stock No. 13410; Spanish (ISBN 0-8213-3411-5) Stock No. 13411.
Download or read book The Indonesian Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Handbook of Education for the Changing World of Work written by Rupert Maclean and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 3162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This six-volume handbook covers the latest practice in technical and vocational education and training (TVET). It presents TVET models from all over the world, reflections on the best and most innovative practice, and dozens of telling case studies. The handbook presents the work of established as well as the most promising young researchers and features unrivalled coverage of developments in research, policy and practice in TVET.
Download or read book Development Centre Studies Education and Health Expenditure and Development The Cases of Indonesia and Peru written by OECD Development Centre and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-05-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pleads for a series of policy orientations leading towards pro-poor health and education spending.
Download or read book Annual Commencement written by Stanford University and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development Demography And Family Decision making written by Linda B Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shift toward the small nuclear family and the emergence of new roles for women have been among the conspicuous changes accompanying economic development and social modernization. The importance of changing autonomy for women in the reduction of control over women's lives by the extended family in the process of development raises questions abo
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Determinants of Labour Migration Decisions The Case of East Java Indonesia written by Wildan Syafitri and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2012 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxfam Education Report written by Kevin Watkins and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive report focuses on the fact that millions of people in poor countries remain uneducated and illiterate - which prevents them from developing the skills they need to escape poverty. The book looks at the underlying causes of the problem and sets out a clear agenda for reform.
