Women's empowerment (WE) is one of the main challenges to economic development in
African countries. Scholars have criticized national development initiatives to focus on well …

This essay argues that the existing paradigm in discussions of the acquisition of human
capital has been focused on the drive to universal schooling and expanding access and …

There is massive and growing volume of literature on human capital and productivity.
However, there is little emphasis on the growth channels of human capital, particularly on …

The first SDG4 target is to both expand access to universal secondary school and to ensure
that all children achieve minimum learning outcomes in primary school. To the extent that …

This special issue explores the use of learning profiles for analysing the dynamics of low
learning in low-and middle-income countries and informing priorities to address the learning …

INTRODUCTION We compared gender disparities in later‐life memory, overall and by
education, in India and the United States (US). METHODS Data (N= 7443) were from …

Despite rising school enrolments, in many places learning achievement has remained very
low. Crawford et al. analyse data on half a million pupils from 48 low-and middle-income …

ABSTRACT India's 2009 Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act
presents an idealized social contract which assigns roles to multiple actors to uphold a …

This paper presents the findings of research undertaken in Ethiopia to examine the effects of
COVID-19 school closures on children's holistic learning, including both socio-emotional …

Historically in some cultures, females are acknowledged differently than males, encouraging
girls to follow specific cultural gender-typed behavior and norms. Girls are not perceived …