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Download full textUnited Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Santiago (Chile). Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. – 1993
This report summarizes UNESCO's co-operation activities within the framework of the Major Project of Education in the field of Education in Latin America and the Caribbean between May 1991 and March 1993. Regional priorities had been established in Quito (Ecuador) in 1991 to focus on: (1) women as protagonists both in family life and economic…
Descriptors: Children, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Foote, Elizabeth – 1997
Grameen Banks are a model of successful support for the smallest businesses. The Grameen Bank began in 1976, when Muhammad Yunus, an economics professor at Chittagong University in southern Bangladesh, loaned Sufiya Khatun, a weaver of bamboo stools, $4 U.S. to buy supplies and raise her daily profit from 2 cents to $1.25. Her success prompted…
Descriptors: Adults, Banking, Business Administration, Capital
Philp, Hugh; Chetley, Andrew – 1988
The development of the Bernard van Leer Foundation is recounted. The discussion illustrates general trends by means of selective project reviews and references to theoretical discussions which were prevalent in early childhood education during the period from 1965-1986. Also considered are activities encouraged by the foundation which have…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Day Care, Developed Nations
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Ariasingam, David Lakshmanan – 1998
Central government's supply-side expansions of schooling have not equally benefited all members of society, especially girls, indigenous peoples, tribal groups, disadvantaged minorities, and the poor. Public spending on education is often inefficient, higher education is subsidized at primary education's expense, and costs are becoming…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Decentralization, Definitions, Developing Nations
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Ariasingam, David Lakshmanan – 1998
Central governments' supply-side expansions of schooling have not equally benefited all members of society, especially girls, indigenous peoples, tribal groups, disadvantaged minorities, and the poor. Public spending on education is often inefficient, higher education is subsidized at primary education's expense, and costs are becoming…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Decentralization, Definitions, Developing Nations
Patrinos, Harry A.; Ariasingam, David L. – 1997
Central governments' supply-side expansions of schooling have not equally benefited all members of society, especially girls, indigenous peoples, tribal groups, disadvantaged minorities, and the poor. Public spending on education is often inefficient, higher education is subsidized at primary education's expense, and costs are becoming…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Decentralization, Definitions, Developing Nations
