Browsing by Subject "Países en desarrollo"
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1-1 in Education : Current Practice, International Comparative Research Evidence and Policy Implications
(OECD, 2010-03)Over the last decade, more and more public and private stakeholders, in developed and developing countries, have been supporting 1:1 initiatives in education (i.e. every child receives her/his own personal computing device). ... -
A Toolkit for Measuring Early Childhood Development in Low and Middle-Income Countries
(World Bank, 2017-12)The Toolkit provides a practical, “how-to” guide for selection and adaptation of child development measurements for use in low- and middle-income countries. Users can follow the proposed step-by-step process to select, ... -
Addresing the Education Puzzle : The Distribution of Education and Economic Reform
(World Bank, 1998-12)No country has achieved sustained economic development without substantially investing in human capital. Previous studies have shown the handsome returns to various forms of basic education, research, training, learning-by-doing, ... -
Aid to education is stagnating and not going to countries most in need
(UNESCO, 2017-05)The governments of low and lower middle income countries have increased their spending on education since 2000 (UNESCO, 2015a). Even if they continue to do so in coming years, the Global Education Monitoring Report estimated ... -
Aid to education stagnates, jeopardising global targets
(UNESCO, 2016-05)Total aid to education more than doubled in real terms between 2002 and 2010, when it reached US$14.2 billion. Since 2010 it has stagnated. As of 2014, it was 8% below its 2010 peak of US$13.1 billion. Total aid to education ... -
Cada niño debería tener un libro de texto
(UNESCO, 2016-01)La cantidad que un país destina a materiales didácticos es un buen indicador de su compromiso de ofrecer una educación de calidad para todos. Existen varios tipos de materiales pedagógicos y didácticos, pero este documento ... -
Community Matters : Fulfilling Learning Potentials for Young Men and Women
(UNESCO, 2014)Close to 90 per cent of the world’s youth (aged 15 to 24) live in developing countries. This provides both opportunities and challenges for development. While the youth today are more educated than their parents’ generation, ... -
Continuous Assessment for Improved Teaching and Learning : A Critical Review to Inform Policy and Practice
(UNESCO, 2017)The prominence of evaluation and assessment within the Incheon Declaration: Education 2030 mirrors simultaneously the vital importance of data in the pursuit of the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the ... -
Delivering education : a pragmatic framework for improving education in low-income countries
(The World Bank, 2015-05)Even as primary-school enrollments have increased in most low-income countries, levels of learning remain low and highly unequal. Responding to greater parental demand for quality, low-cost private schools have emerged as ... -
La demanda de educación superior : breve revisión de la literatura
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Sede Medellín, 2018)El objetivo de este artículo es ofrecer una revisión de la literatura económica sobre el análisis de la demanda de educación superior desde una perspectiva microeconómica, en la que los individuos toman la decisión racional ... -
Development, Modernization, And Son Preference In Fertility Decisions
(The World Bank, 2008-09)A family preference for sons over daughters may manifest itself in different ways, including higher mortality, worse health status, or lower educational attainment among girls. This study focuses on one measure of son ... -
Early Childhood Stimulation Benefits Adult Competence and Reduces Violent Behavior
(American Academy of Pediatrics, 2011)Objective: An estimated 178 million children younger than 5 years in developing countries experience linear growth retardation and are unlikely to attain their developmental potential. We aimed to evaluate adult benefits ... -
Edad para aprender, edad para enseñar : el rol del aprendizaje intergeneracional intrahogar en el uso de la internet por parte de los adultos mayores en Latinoamérica
(PUCP, 2015-12)Las pirámides poblacionales alrededor del mundo están sufriendo cambios drásticos dado el acelerado envejecimiento poblacional tanto en países desarrollados como en vías de desarrollo. Ante las consecuencias venideras de ... -
Education Interventions for Improving the Access to, and Quality of, Education in Low and Middle Income Countries : A Systematic Review
(The Campbell Collaboration, 2014-07)This review aims to build on the work already undertaken by Petrosino et al. (2013), but with inclusion criteria covering learning outcomes more comprehensively. We will also aim to assess how education interventions affect ... -
Eight Questions about Brain Drain
(World Bank, 2011-05)High-skilled emigration is an emotive issue that in popular discourse is often referred to as brain drain, conjuring images of extremely negative impacts on developing countries. Recent discussions of brain gain, diaspora ... -
Every child should have a textbook
(UNESCO, 2016-01)The cost of textbooks is a key barrier that prevents children from having access to the learning materials they need. This paper investigates the cost of textbooks and the miniscule budget currently allocated to textbooks ... -
Evidence-Based Teaching : Effective Teaching Practices in Primary School Classrooms
(World Bank, 2018)Even after spending five to six years sitting in a classroom almost every day for anywhere between four to seven hours, a significant share of students in low- and middle-income countries are still not able to read, write, ... -
Exploring the impact of career models on teacher motivation
(IIPE, 2016)The Education for All movement has resulted in a rapid expansion in primary school places across the developing world. However, this expansion has not been accompanied by an equally rapid increase in the number of qualified ... -
Gender Socialization during Adolescence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Conceptualization, influences and outcomes
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2017)Adolescence is a critical period in the development of gender attitudes and behaviours, which have potentially life-long effects.The rapid changes that take place during adolescence provide opportunities for the development ... -
Global School Feeding Sourcebook : Lessons from 14 countries
(Imperial College Press, 2016)This sourcebook documents and analyzes a range of government-led school meals programs to provide decision-makers and practitioners worldwide with the knowledge, evidence and good practice they need to strengthen their ...