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UNINA9910450362303321 |
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Birdsall Nancy |
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Toward universal primary education : investments, incentives, and institutions / / Lead authors: Nancy Birdsall and Amina Ibrahim (Coordinators), Ruth Levine |
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London ; ; Sterling, Va. : , : Earthscan, , 2005 |
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1-136-55007-0 |
1-280-47631-1 |
9786610476312 |
1-84977-357-2 |
600-00-0095-2 |
1-4237-0902-0 |
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1 online resource (203 p.) |
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IbrahimAmina |
LevineRuth <1959-> |
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Education, Elementary - Developing countries |
Education, Primary - Developing countries |
Education - Developing countries |
Educational equalization - Developing countries |
Electronic books. |
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"Achieving the Millennium Development Goals"--Cover. |
Sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme on behalf of the UN Development Group. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-183). |
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Toward universal primary education: investments, incentives, and institutions; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; Task force members; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Millennium Development Goals; Executive summary; Part 1 Setting the stage; Chapter 1 The task force's contribution; Task force methods; Audience and organization of the report; The contribution of the task force; Chapter 2 Education and society: multiple benefits, unrealized potential; Education is society's main instrument for reproducing itself and can be a key ingredient for |
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social change |
Education is an end in itself and has tremendous benefits for individuals and societyThe benefits of education are conditioned by the context; Chapter 3 The Goals and the history of goal-setting in education; Chapter 4 Trends in primary education and gender parity; A host of factors affect enrollment and retention rates; Learning achievement needs to be measured; Conclusions and future prospects; Part 2 Education systems in developing countries: income, institutions, and incentives; Chapter 5 Education systems in developing countries |
High-performing educational systems can achieve results even with limited resourcesCountries with low-performing systems need to address a variety of governance problems; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Strategies for creating more and better educational opportunities; Strategy 1: get out-of-school children into school; Strategy 2: create better institutions, increase transparency, and provide better incentives; Chapter 7 Financing the education Goals; Part 3 Forging an international compact for education: roles and responsibilities of donors and developing countries |
Chapter 8 A global compact for basic educationChapter 9 What donors should do; Recommendation 1: support bold political leadership and provide firm financial commitments to make Education for All and the Fast Track Initiative work; Recommendation 2: reform the donor business; Recommendation 3: use a transparent accountability framework for reporting; Recommendation 4: invest in genuine evaluation; Chapter 10 A call to action; Appendixes; Appendix 1. Commissioned papers for educational report |
Appendix 2. Summary of the civil society e-discussion on the education report of the Task Force on Education and Gender EqualityAppendix 3. Success stories in policy interventions toward high quality universal primary education; Appendix 4. Data issues; Appendix 5. Major initiatives that promote the Millennium Development Goals on education and gender equality; Appendix 6. Need for postprimary education; Notes; References |
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The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015?income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter?while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Mi |
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UNINA9911019483803321 |
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Autore |
Gilbert David |
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Geographies of British Modernity [[electronic resource] ] : Space and Society in the Twentieth Century |
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Chichester, : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007 |
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1-281-32265-2 |
9786611322656 |
0-470-70723-2 |
0-470-75225-4 |
0-470-75224-6 |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Human geography |
Geography / Travel |
Human geography - Great Britain |
Great Britain |
Regions & Countries - Europe |
History & Archaeology |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Geographies of British Modernity: Space and Society in the Twentieth Century; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 Historical Geographies of British Modernity; Part I Surveying British Modernity; Chapter 2 A Century of Progress? Inequalities in British Society, 1901–2000; Chapter 3 The Conservative Century? Geography and Conservative Electoral Success during the Twentieth Century; Chapter 4 Mobility in the Twentieth Century: Substituting Commuting for Migration? |
Chapter 5 Qualifying the Evidence: Perceptions of Rural Change in Britain in the Second Half of the Twentieth CenturyPart II Sites of British Modernity; Chapter 6 'A Power for Good or Evil': Geographies of the M1 |
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in Late Fifties Britain; Chapter 7 A New England: Landscape, Exhibition and Remaking Industrial Space in the 1930s; Chapter 8 A Man's World? Masculinity and Metropolitan Modernity at Simpson Piccadilly; Chapter 9 Mosques, Temples and Gurdwaras: New Sites of Religion in Twentieth-Cen |
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This volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding modern Britain.:.; The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain.; Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain.; Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century.; Combines economic, political, social and cultural geographies.; Demon |
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UNIORUON00077704 |
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MOSCA, Liliana |
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Il Madagascar, nella Biblioteca della Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell'Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" / Liliana Mosca |
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Napoli, : Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II". Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, 1993 |
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Biblioteche universitarie - Italia - Cataloghi |
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