What works in girls' education : evidence for the world's best investment / / Gene B. Sperling and Rebecca Winthrop ; with Christina Kwauk ; foreword by Malala Yousafzai
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Sperling Gene B.
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| Titolo: |
What works in girls' education : evidence for the world's best investment / / Gene B. Sperling and Rebecca Winthrop ; with Christina Kwauk ; foreword by Malala Yousafzai
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 371.822 |
| Soggetto topico: | Girls - Education |
| Girls - Education - Developing countries | |
| Women in development | |
| Educational equalization | |
| Educational assistance | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | WinthropRebecca |
| KwaukChristina | |
| YousafzaiMalala | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls. Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education, have written this definitive book on the importance of girls' education. As Malala Yousafzai expresses in her foreword, the idea that any child could be denied an education due to poverty, custom, the law, or terrorist threats is just wrong and unimaginable. More than 1,000 studies have provid |
| Titolo autorizzato: | What works in girls' education |
| ISBN: | 0-8157-2862-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797747603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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