Accessions List, Eastern Africa
Accessions List, Eastern Africa

Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13:

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Number 6 includes cumulative main and added entry index for the monographs listed in that year.

Education, Gender and Economic Development
Education, Gender and Economic Development

Author: Aaron Benavot

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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Much past and contemporary research highlights the positive contributions of education to economic development. This article addresses an issue largely ignored in that research tradition: Do the long-term economic effects of expanding educational opportunities for school-age girls and boys differ? If so, how does gender and schooling interact to produce these differential effects? The research presented here analyzed cross-national data from 1960 to 1985 on 96 countries and found clear evidence that in less developed countries -- especially in some of the poorest -- educational expansion among school-age girls has a stronger effect on long-term economic prosperity than does educational expansion among school-age boys. This effect, in contrast to much contemporary thinking, is not mediated by women's participation in the wage labor force or by measurable differences in fertility behavior. The author argues that these findings provide qualified support for institutional theories of education's impact on society.

What Works in Girls' Education
What Works in Girls' Education

Author: Barbara Knapp Herz

Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9780876093443

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"What Works in Girls Education" summarizes the extensive body of research on the state of girls education in the developing world today; the impact of educating girls on families, economies, and nations; and the most promising approaches to increasing girls enrollment and educational quality.

Improving Primary Education in Developing Countries
Improving Primary Education in Developing Countries

Author: Marlaine E. Lockheed

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13:

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This study presents policy options for improving the effectiveness of primary schools in developing countries. It examines problems common to most developing countries and presents an array of low-cost policy alternatives that have proved useful in a variety of settings.

The Hidden Crisis
The Hidden Crisis

Author:

Publisher: UNESCO

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 9231041916

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When wars break out, international attention and media reporting invariably focus on the most immediate images of human suffering. Yet behind these images is a hidden crisis. Across many of the world's poorest countries, armed conflict is destroying not just school infrastructure, but the hopes and ambitions of generations of children. The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education documents the devastating effects of armed conflict on education. It examines the widespread human rights abuses keeping children out of school. The Report challenges an international aid system that is failing conflict-affected states, with damaging consequences for education. It warns that schools are often used to transmit intolerance, prejudice and social injustice. This ninth edition of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report calls on governments to demonstrate greater resolve in combating the culture of impunity surrounding attacks on schoolchildren and schools. It sets out an agenda for fixing the International aid architecture. And it identifies strategies for strengthening the role of education in peacebuilding. The Report includes statistical indicators on all levels of education in more than 200 countries and territories. It serves as an authoritative reference for education policy-makers, development specialists, researchers and the media