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Education | The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau (Comprehensive Review of Education Outcomes)
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankWe conducted a survey covering 20% of villages with 200-1000 population in rural Guinea-Bissau. We interviewed household heads, care-givers of children, and their teachers and schools. We analysed results from 9,947 children, aged 7-17, tested for literacy and numeracy competency. Only 27% of children were able to add two single digits, and just 19% were able to read and comprehend a simple...
Working Paper | Multiples dimensions de la pauvreté, gouvernance et démocratie : Le point de vue de la population malienne. Enquête ELIM2006. Premiers résultats.
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankLa mesure de la gouvernance et de la démocratie dans le cadre des stratégies actuelles de lutte contre la pauvreté constitue un défi majeur. Dans le prolongement de l'expérience menée en 2001 à Bamako, dans le cadre de l'enquête 132, la DNSI a intégré des modules portant sur les multiples dimensions de la pauvreté, la gouvernance et la démocratie à l'enquête nationale ELIM 2006. Dans un...
Are we making progress with building governance into the post 2015 framework?
Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankMomentum is building for governance and accountability issues to have a greater profile in the post 2015 framework, and there is a growing recognition that we cannot afford to ignore governance even if it is politically challenging to incorporate. This briefing provides an assessment of some of the main proposals on the table that have been gaining traction in the debate, as...
Human Development Measurement: A broader approach in India
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankIn this paper, the author attempts to assess economic development more specifically, how can we measure economic development in human aspects? The question had been asked and argued for several years. Human development concept and its index gives answer for these questions. This article aims to depict the concept of human development and its measurement especially in the Indian context....
African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankThe conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala‐i‐Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the period 1970‐2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly. (2) If present trends continue, the poverty Millennium...
'Opitanha' revisited. Assessing the implications of PARPA II in rural northern Mozambique 2006-2009
Africa, Governance and MDG, Public Administration, Report, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThis report is part of a larger exercise of monitoring and evaluating Mozambique’s poverty reduction strategy, focussing on three districts in Mozambique and using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. It analyses the constitution and dynamics of poverty and well-being in the rural district of Murrupula, in Nampula Province, by revisiting four local communities and a total...
Millennium Development Goals Report Card: Learning from progress
Governance and MDG, Report, Academic/Think Tank, Civil Society, DonorThe Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have provided an important motivational force and measuring rod for progress on poverty reduction and human development. This summary is part of initial findings from an ongoing review of development progress, which will include a set of 'MDG indicators to construct league tables' highlighting progress on these indicators. It focuses on progress...
Ability and Readiness of Nations to Reduce Hunger: Analysing Economic and Governance Capacities for Hunger Reduction
Governance and MDG, Report, Academic/Think Tank, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe study reveals that hunger is as much the result of poor or weak governance precipitating economic downturn as that of episodic natural or manmade events causing individual and community crises. Effective governance provides an enabling environment which facilitates effective institutional capacity, and the policies and legislative measures needed to pave the way so that individuals,...
Millennium Development Goal 9: indicators and the state of democracy in Mongolia
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, Academic/Think Tank, Other UN AgencyThis publication contains two parts that present the outputs of the MDG-9 Project: the first part describes the methodology and the baseline for the MDG-9 indicators while the second describes the changes in the state of Mongolia’s democratic governance on the basis of the Country Information Note-II and the State of Democracy Assessment-II conducted in 2008 as a follow-up to the...