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Expanding Opportunities for the Next Generation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Expanding Opportunities for the Next Generation

Early childhood is the most important stage of human development yet in Middle East and North Africa countries there is little research and inadequate investment in this crucial stage of life. This book covers risk, protective factors, policies and programs that can address inequality and shortfalls in the early years of life.

Expectations and Aspirations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 491

Expectations and Aspirations

Education, which has been at the heart of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s history and civilizations for centuries, has a large untapped potential to contribute to human capital, well-being, and wealth. The region has invested heavily in education for decades, but it has not been able to reap the benefits of its investments. Despite a series of reforms, MENA has remained stuck in a low-learning, low-skills level.Expectations and Aspirations: A New Framework for Education in the Middle East and North Africa identifies four key sets of tensions that are holding back education in the region: credentials and skills, discipline and inquiry, control and autonomy, and tradition an...

The Egyptian Labor Market in an Era of Reform
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

The Egyptian Labor Market in an Era of Reform

Examines the changes that occurred in the Egyptian labor market over a ten-year period

Investing in Early Childhood Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Investing in Early Childhood Development

This study provides an overview of Bank investments in Early Childhood Development (ECD) from 2000-2013 within the Education, Health, Nutrition and Population, and Social Protection and Labor practices.

Egyptian Women Workers and Entrepreneurs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 102

Egyptian Women Workers and Entrepreneurs

Over the past decade, Egyptian women have made significant progress in improving their economic and social status. The government s commitment to women s empowerment is strong at the highest political levels. Yet continued disparities remain in the country s labor market and in the business arena. 'Egyptian Women Workers and Entrepreneurs' analyzes these disparities and makes recommendations for needed change to ensure a level playing field. This groundbreaking book brings together data and extensive evidence on barriers to women s entry into business in Egypt and makes the case for actions to ensure gender equality. This book is based on a study that the Egyptian Ministry of Investment and ...

The Political Economy of Education in the Arab World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

The Political Economy of Education in the Arab World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-03-16
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Getting In Is Not Enough
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Getting In Is Not Enough

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

This anthology examines women’s paid work in terms of both access to the economic system and the broader agenda of achieving feminist social change worldwide. Generations of feminists have linked women’s empowerment, autonomy, and oppression to issues involving work. Most conflated women’s economic and political clout with gender equity, arguing that increasing women’s access to and leadership in the public workplace is crucial to the success of the feminist project. But recent debates about women's continued inability to gain equality in the workplace raise the need for new approaches to teaching about gender and employment. Getting In Is Not Enough responds to the challenge. Drawn ...

The Department of Labor's ... Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 520

The Department of Labor's ... Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Child Protection Policies in Egypt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Child Protection Policies in Egypt

  • Categories: Law

This study seeks to provide a critical analysis of child protection policies in Egypt and examine whether these policies are based on the rights-based model of child protection that is embodied in the Convention for Child Rights (CRC). It identifies the ways in which these policies fail to link child rights and child protection and thus are unable to provide integrated and accessible services that meet children's needs. Cairo Papers in Social Science 30:1