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Direct linkMurphy-Graham, Erin; Lloyd, Cynthia – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
This article proposes a conceptual framework for how education can promote adolescent girls' empowerment and, by mapping the field, highlights promising examples of empowering education programs. We conclude by identifying both research and programmatic opportunities for the future that will harness the expertise of a range of specialists from the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Middle School Students, Student Empowerment
Jayachandran, Seema; Lleras-Muney, Adriana – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
Longer life expectancy should encourage human capital accumulation, since a longer time horizon increases the value of investments that pay out over time. Previous work has been unable to determine the empirical importance of this life-expectancy effect due to the difficulty of isolating it from other effects of health on education. We examine a…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Poverty
United Nations Children's Fund, Paris (France). – 1989
This digest examines the problem of child labor and education in India and other Southeast Asian countries. It offers novel insights into the extent of child labor and the shortcomings and inertia of educational systems in adapting to the needs of working children. Also, the digest describes a series of promising educational innovations meant to…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Children, Developing Nations, Educational Innovation
Eddy, David, Ed.; Garb, Gill, Ed. – World Education, Inc. Reports, 1987
This issue of Reports Magazine focuses on the challenges that women face and their efforts to continue the struggle for a wider recognition in development and all other spheres of life. "Feminist Issues in Development" (Peggy Antrobus) discusses how feminist analyses offer critiques of conventional approaches to development that…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Download full textCooper, Anne M. – 1988
A study compared the visibility and participation of women working in United States television with that of women working in television in other countries. Video tapes of five consecutive evening news broadcasts in 1986 from the United States, Japan, Sri Lanka, Colombia, and Jamaica were analyzed for such data as the proportion of women anchors,…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Developing Nations, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
Stegall, Lael Swinney – 1979
A subjective assessment of women's organizations and development in Sri Lanka and Thailand produced specific information about the organizations and suggested ways to improve their development capacities. Personal interviews with nearly 100 organization, government, and agency leaders revealed many similarities between the two countries. In both…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Life Education, Females
Sanyal, Bikas C.; And Others – 1990
Following a summary of the discussions of an intensive training course on education, employment, and work conducted in Botswana, this document contains the following 18 papers presented at the training course: "Education and Employment in Africa: An Overview" (Sanyal); "Diagnosis of the Employment Situation: Some Basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
