Beyond poverty escapes—social mobility in developing countries: A review article

V Iversen, A Krishna, K Sen - The World Bank Research …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
While social mobility in advanced economies has received extensive scholarly attention,
crucial knowledge gaps remain about the patterns and determinants of income, educational …

[PDF][PDF] Educational mobility in the developing world

F Torche - Social Mobility in Developing Countries, 2021 - library.oapen.org
Educational mobility captures the association between parents' and adult children's
schooling attainment. Along with measures of occupational and economic mobility, it …

Managing to learn: Instructional leadership in South African secondary schools

U Hoadley, P Christie, CL Ward - School leadership and …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
This article reports on an empirical study of the management of curriculum and instruction in
South African secondary schools. Drawing on data collected from 200 schools in 2007, a …

Who models the world? Collaborative ontology creation and user roles in Wikidata

A Piscopo, E Simperl - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Wikidata is a collaborative knowledge graph which is central to many academic and industry
IT projects. Its users are responsible for maintaining the schema that organises this …

[PDF][PDF] What drives youth unemployment and what interventions help

A De Lannoy, L Graham, L Patel… - A Systematic Overview of …, 2018 - redi3x3.org
There is broad consensus that youth unemployment in South Africa is critical, with latest
figures confirming that one half of young people 15-34 years are unemployed by the broad …

Social mobility in five a frican countries

T Bossuroy, D Cogneau - Review of Income and Wealth, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper conceptualizes intergenerational occupational mobility between the farm and
non‐farm sectors in five A frican countries, measures it using nationally representative …

A society divided: How unequal education quality limits social mobility in South Africa

E Moses, S Van Der Berg, K Rich - Synthesis report for the …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
The central focus of this research project is the investigation of the role of education in
promoting social mobility for the poor in the highly unequal South African economic …

Affirmative action policy: Inclusion, exclusion, and the global public good

S Gururaj, P Somers, J Fry, D Watson… - Policy Futures in …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Social inclusion policy in higher education—also referenced as affirmative action,
reservations, schedules, or antidiscrimination—has been used widely to promote equity and …

Social mobility among Christian Africans: evidence from Anglican marriage registers in Uganda, 1895–2011

F Meier zu Selhausen… - The Economic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This article uses Anglican marriage registers from colonial and post‐colonial Uganda to
investigate long‐term trends and determinants of intergenerational social mobility and …

The South African unemployment debate: three worlds, three discourses?

F Fourie - 2011 - opensaldru.uct.ac.za
This paper presents a critical survey and meta-analysis of the South African academic
literature on unemployment. It asks whether the research has produced a coherent …