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Impacts of school closures on children in developing countries: Can we learn something from the past?
CMI Brief | May 2020
Impacts of school closures on children in developing countries: Can we learn something from the past
Corona, Covid-19, Ebola, Schools, Education, School dropouts, School closures, DRC, Sierra Leone, Liberia
The Declining Governance Situation in Malawi
Event | 17 Jun 2011
Basic rights to assembly and expression have come under threat and accountability mechanisms are being undermined. A major standoff over threats to academic freedom and the closure of the university is ongoing. Peter Von Doepp discusses the unfolding situation in Malawi.
Environmental resource collection: implications for children's schooling in Tigray, northern Ethiopia
Journal Article | Jan 2014
This paper examines the adverse effect of natural resources scarcity on children's schooling and the possible gender bias of resource collection work ...
Ethiopia
Understanding success and failure of anti-corruption initiatives
U4 Brief | Apr 2011
Most anti-corruption initiatives fail. This Brief sets out to understand why that is, and what might be done about it. Anti-corruption initiatives ...
corruption in aid
Secondary and higher secondary school education in Bangladesh. Its growth and state expenditures: A time-series analysis of 1981-90.
CMI Report | Jan 1992
This paper first identifies trends and patterns in the growth of the secondary and higher secondary schools in Bangladesh, while differentiating between ...
Secondary education, Educational policy, Bangladesh
Building the new state of South Sudan: The challenge of the resource curse and the pro-poor agricultural growth
Event | 8 Mar 2012
Dr. Luka Biong Deng gives a talk on the challenges facing the new state of South Sudan, in a presentation of his current work on the so-called "oil-curse" ...
Sudan
Exploring the Research-Policy Linkage: The Case of Reforms in Financing Primary Education in Tanzania
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006
Tanzania abolished school fees in primary schools as from 2002. This move was made possible because of shifts in the policy of major donors, not least ...
Educational policy, Development, Role of research, User fees, Tanzania
Wrong schools or wrong students? The potential role of medical education in regional imbalances of the health workforce in the United Republic of Tanzania
Journal Article | Mar 2010
Background
The United Republic of Tanzania, like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, faces a human resources crisis in its health sector, with ...
Fishermen and Territorial Anxieties in China and Vietnam: Narratives of the South China Sea beyond the Nation Frame
Journal Article | May 2017
In the geopolitical conflict over the South China Sea (SCS), fishers are at the center of Chinese and Vietnamese cartographic imaginations that define ...
Transparency in U.S. Higher Education Job Placement Data
Book Chapter | Jul 2013
The Article looks at transparency in job placement data published by U.S. universities, with a particular focus on law schools and for-profit schools. ...
Education, Universities, Transparency, Job Placement Data, USA
Primary education since the introduction of the primary education development plan
Report in External Series | Jan 2004
The Primary Education Development Plan (PEDP) was introduced in July 2001. The plan includes the abolition of school fees, increased teacher recruitment, ...
Primary education, Development plans, , Africa: Tanzania
Financing education in Afghanistan: Opportunities for action
Report in External Series | Jan 2015
The Afghan Ministry of Education estimates that there are presently 8.35 million students (39% of which are girls) in primary, lower secondary, and upper ...
Education, Afghanistan
Scaling up sexuality education in Senegal: integrating family life education into the national curriculum
Journal Article | Jan 2016
In Senegal, school-based sexuality education has evolved over 20 years from family life education (FLE) pilot projects into crosscurricular subjects located ...
Senegal, young people, comprehensive sexuality education, school sex education, scale-up
Effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial
Journal Article | Jan 2016
Background: Adolescent pregnancies pose a risk to the young mothers and their babies. In Zambia, 35% of young girls in rural areas have given birth by ...
Marketing barriers facing developing countries. Essays on product differentiation, discrimination and brand naming in the market for clothing
Report in External Series | Jan 1995
(A dissertation submitted for the degree of dr. econ. Norwegian School of Economics and Buisness Administration, Bergen)
Bangladesh
Configuring a Threatening Other: Historical Narratives in Chinese School Textbooks
Book Chapter | Jan 2014
The historical narratives about Japan in the Chinese school textbooks, especially those of today, contributed to the construction of a common understanding ...
China
Project INT/97/R12, Fund for Norwegian Consultancy Services and Programme Activities: OOUGA 2110, technical assistance and equipment to promote science education in 5 secondary schools in APAC distri
Report in External Series | Jan 2001
(Commissioned report. Limited circulationl)
Acceptability of youth clubs focusing on comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education in rural Zambian schools: a case of Central Province
Journal Article | Jan 2020
Acceptability of youth clubs focusing on comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education in r
Values education for public integrity. What works and what doesn’t
U4 Issue | May 2020
Schools and universities in various countries are teaching youth about integrity norms and values. Despite limited evidence on effectiveness, some good ...
Education
Education and entrepreneurial success
Journal Article | Mar 2015
This paper estimates the effect of education on the success of entrepreneurial activity, using survey data from Malawi. An instrument variable approach ...
Entrepreneurship, returns to schooling, endogeneity, Malawi, Malawi