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A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Demand and Supply Side Education Interventions:The Case of Progresa in Mexico
Article / Working Paper, Governance and MDG, Latin America and the Carribean, Civil SocietyThis paper is concerned with the issue of the most cost-effective way of improving access to education for poor households in developing countries. We consider two alternatives: (1) extensive expansion of the school system (i.e., bringing education to the poor) and (2) subsidizing investment in education by the poor (i.e., bringing the poor to the education system). To this end, we evaluate the...
Human Development Report 2010
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, UNDP ProducedThis year’s Report celebrates the contributions of the human development approach, which is as relevant as ever to making sense of our changing world and finding ways to improve people’s well-being. Indeed, human development is an evolving idea—not a fixed, static set of precepts—and as the world changes, analytical tools and concepts evolve. So this Report is...
World Development Indicators 2010
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Governance and MDG, Latin America and the Carribean, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe World Development Indicators (WDI) 2010 is a comprehensive overview of development. It is the statistical benchmark that helps measure the progress of development. The WDI database, launched along with the World Bank’s Open Data initiative to provide free data to all users, includes more than 900 indicators documenting the state of all the world’s economies....
Basic Capabilities Index 2009
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Governance and MDG, Latin America and the Carribean, Civil SocietySocial Watch developed theBasic Capabilities Index (BCI) as an instrument to monitor the evolution of basic indicators and make comparisons between and within countries. This is a summary-index that compares and classifies countries according to their progress in social development by evaluating their situation in terms of minimum basic capabilities – structural dimensions that...
Global Education Digest 2010: Comparing Education Statistics Across the World
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Governance and Gender, Governance and MDG, Latin America and the Carribean, Other UN AgencyThe 2010 edition of the Global Education Digest focuses on gender and education to mark the 15th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women. It explores the changing patterns in gender and schooling throughout the formal education system – from primary to tertiary education levels. The analysis draws on data that are presented in the GED Statistical Tables as well...
Women, Business and the Law: Measuring Legal Gender Parity for Entrepreneurs and Workers in 128 Economies
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Governance and MDG, Justice, Latin America and the Carribean, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis report assesses legal differentiations on the basis of gender in 128 economies around the world, covering 6 areas—accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, dealing with taxes, building credit and going to court. This report recognizes the many issues that affect women’s economic opportunities but focuses on one area: aspects of the formal legal and...
Millennium Development Goals: advances in Environmentally Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Governance and MDG, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyWhen they adopted the Millennium Declaration, the 189 States Members of the United Nations made a commitment to take on the world’s principal development challenges and to combat extreme poverty. This led to the establishment of the Millennium Development Goals, of which the seventh aims to “ensure environmental sustainability”. This consists of the...