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A Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Education, Kenyatta University, March, 2013
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This brief summarizes the information, role models and perceived returns to education experimental evidence from Madagascar. This paper shows that increasing perceived returns to education strengthens incentives for schooling when agents underestimate the actual returns. The author conducted a field experiment in Madagascar to study alternative ways to provide additional information about the returns to education: simply providing statistics versus using a role model, an actual person...
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This brief summarizes the turning a shove into a nudge? A 'labeled cash transfer' for education in Morocco. The transfer was made every two months during the 2008-2010 school years. Through a randomized experiment in over 600 poor, rural communities of Morocco, the author test whether the demonstrated ability of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) to increase human capital attainment in low and middle income countries hinges on three of their standard features: that they constrain behavior...
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The Egyptian revolution of January 2011 has brought about tremendous changes within Egypt’s political and social institutions. This chapter examines historical and current events that have shaped educational reform and practices. Educational policies have been heavily influenced by external agencies. International organizations have targeted educational programming and infrastructure resulting in educational transfer practices focused on global topics. Issues surrounding post-revolution...
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The global nature of social problems indicates how important it is for social workers to be involved in international issues. For example, overseas experience in social work programs is in consonance with the Council on Social Work Education's emphasis on global context of social work practice. In view of this, some schools of social work are facilitating international experience for their students and faculty. This article discusses the experiences of U.S. students who studied abroad in...
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Whilst broadly agreed in the literature that disability and poverty are closely interlinked, the empirical basis for this knowledge is relatively weak.To describe and discuss the current state of knowledge and to suggest the need for further generation of knowledge on disability and poverty.Two recent attempts at statistically analysing the situation for disabled people and a series of qualitative studies on disability and poverty are applied in a discussion on the state of current...
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The proposed waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) cut-off of 0.5 is less optimal for cardiometabolic risk screening in children in many settings. The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal WHtR for children from South Africa, and investigate variations by gender, ethnicity and residence in the achieved value.Metabolic syndrome (MetS) components were measured in 1272 randomly selected learners, aged 10-16 years, comprising of 446 black Africans, 696 mixed-ancestry and 130 Caucasians. The...