Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Evidence from a randomizedi evaluation in Western Kenya
| Author | : Esther Duflo |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 33 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1004093411 |
Education And Hiv Aids Prevention Evidence From A Randomizedi Evaluation In Western Kenya
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RethinkHIV
| Author | : Bjørn Lomborg |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 2012-10-18 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1139577166 |
Thirty years after the identification of the disease that became known as AIDS, humanitarian organizations warn that the fight against HIV/AIDS has slowed, amid a funding shortfall and donor fatigue. In this book, Bjørn Lomborg brings together research by world-class specialist authors, a foreword by UNAIDS founding director Peter Piot and perspectives from Nobel Laureates and African civil society leaders to identify the most effective ways to tackle the pandemic across sub-Saharan Africa. There remains an alarming lack of high-quality data evaluating responses to HIV. We still know too little about what works, where and how to replicate our successes. This book offers the first comprehensive attempt by teams of authors to analyze HIV/AIDS policy choices using cost-benefit analysis, across six major topics. This approach provides a provocative fresh look at the best ways to scale up the fight against this killer epidemic.
Ways of Knowing
| Author | : Jonathan W. Moses |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2019-03-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1352005549 |
The third edition of this popular, innovative and engaging textbook introduces students to the various methods of modern social science, explaining how these have emerged, their strengths and limitations for understanding the world in which we live, and how it is possible to combine methodological pluralism with intellectual rigour. Focussing on the debate between positivist and constructivist approaches, this new edition features contemporary research examples, expanded discussion of experimental methods, and a new emphasis on methods that have recently grown in popularity, such as process tracing and controlled randomized trials. This is the perfect textbook for students studying the philosophy of science in the context of political science or the social sciences more broadly, and it is essential reading for all those seeking to understand how different ways of knowing affect the methods we choose to study social phenomena. New to this Edition: - Contemporary research examples - A new emphasis on methods that have recently grown in popularity, such as random controlled trials, field experiments, big data and within-case and process tracing studies
Development and the Next Generation
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2006-01-01 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0821365428 |
"The theme of The World Development Report 2007 is youth - young people between the ages of 12 to 24. As this population group seeks identity and independence, they make decisions that affect not only their own well-being, but that of others, and they do this in a rapidly changing demographic and socio-economic environment. Supporting young people's transition to adulthood poses important opportunities and risky challenges for development policy. Are education systems preparing young people to cope with the demands of changing economies? What kind of support do they get as they enter the labor market? Can they move freely to where the jobs are? What can be done to help them avoid serious consequences of risky behavior, such as death from HIV-AIDS and drug abuse? Can their creative energy be directed productively to support development thinking? The report will focus on crucial capabilities and transitions in a young person's life: learning for life and work, staying healthy, working, forming families, and exercising citizenship. For each, there are opportunities and risks; for all, policies and institutions matter."
Global Monitoring Report 2011
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0821387014 |
Prepared jointly by The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
When Norms Collide
| Author | : Karisa Cloward |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2016-02-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0190274948 |
Many transnational campaigns, and particularly the transnational campaign on violence against women, promote international norms that target the behavior of local nonstate actors. But these international norms are often at odds with local practices. What happens when the international and local norms collide? When does transnational activism lead individuals and communities to abandon local norms and embrace international ones? In When Norms Collide, Karisa Cloward presents a path-breaking theoretical framework for understanding the processes by which individuals negotiate competing demands placed on them by international and local norms. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with local communities in Kenya, she applies the theory to the practices of female genital mutilation and early marriage. Cloward argues that, when faced with international normative messages, individuals can decide to change their attitudes, their behavior, and the public image they present to international and local audiences. Moreover, the impact of transnational activism on individuals substantially depends on the salience of the international and local norms to their respective proponents, as well as on community-level factors.
Faith-Based Schools in Latin America
| Author | : Juan Carlos Parra Osorio |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2014-01-13 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0821395866 |
This volume, that includes evaluations of academic performance and other management aspects and pedagogical practices of Fe y Alegr a schools, is a selection of contributions made at the international workshop Fe y Alegr a: Expanding the Quality Education Opportunities in Latin America
Handbook of Development Economics
| Author | : T. Paul Schultz |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 1055 |
| Release | : 2008-03-04 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0080569420 |
The field of development economics has evolved since volume 3 of the Handbook of Development Economics was published more than a decade ago. Volume 4 takes stock of some of the newer trends and their implications for research in the field and our understanding of economic development.The handbook is divided into four sections which reflect these developments, of which the first deals with agricultural and rural development. Section two is concerned with developments in the theory and evidence regarding public goods and political economy. The third section is focused on the behavior of households and individuals regarding various aspects of human capital investments, in the face of the various constraints, particularly market incentives and public goods. The final section contains papers that describe the different methods now available, both experimental and non-experimental, to conduct program evaluations, as well as describing papers that implement these methods.The authors of the chapters are all experts in the fields they survey and extend, and this volume promises to be an invaluable addition to the Handbooks in Economics series and a useful reference to graduate students, researchers and professionals in the field of development economics. - Presents an accurate, self-contained survey of the current state of the field - Summarizes the most recent discussions in journals, and elucidates new developments - Although original material is also included, the main aim is the provision of comprehensive and accessible surveys
The Infertility Trap
| Author | : R. John Aitken |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2022-05-05 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1108936245 |
A potential crisis in human fertility is brewing. As societies become more affluent, they experience changes that have a dramatic impact on reproduction. As average family sizes fall, the selection pressure for high-fertility genes decreases; exacerbated by the IVF industry which allows infertility-linked genes to pass into the next generation. Male fertility rates are low, for many reasons including genetics and exposure to environmental toxins. So, a perfect storm of factors is contriving to drive fertility rates down at unprecedented rates. If we do not recognize the reality of our situation and react accordingly, an uncontrollable decline in population numbers is likely, which we'll be unable to reverse. This book will address, in a unique and multi-faceted way, how the consequences of modern life affects fertility, so that we can consider behavioural, social, medical and environmental changes which could reduce the severity of what is about to come.
Healthy Development
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2007-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0821371940 |
After an extensive consultative process with governments and global partners, including civil society organizations and bilateral and multilateral organizations, the World Bank's new health, nutrition, and population strategy aims to help developing countries strengthen their health systems and improve the health and well-being of millions of the world's poorest people, boost economic growth, reduce poverty caused by catastrophic illness, and provide the structural "glue" that supports multiple health-related programs within countries."--BOOK JACKET.
