Equity and Access to Education: Themes, Tensions, and Policies
Written by W. O. Lee
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Pub. Date: 2004
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List of Tables, List of Figures, List of Boxes, List of Abbreviations, Glossary, and Foreword [ PDF: 41kb | 14 pages ]
Introduction [ PDF: 23kb | 5 pages ]
Gender-Related Equity [ PDF: 80kb | 22 pages ]
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- Literacy
- Education Attainments
Primary Enrollments
Secondary Enrollments
Tertiary Enrollments
Dropout and Repetition
Life Chances Beyond Education
- Policy Implications
Income-Related Equity [ PDF: 52kb | 11 pages ]
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- Income Distribution and Equality
- Capability Poverty
- Financial Burdens on the Poor: Fees and Household Expenditures
- Policy Implications
Region-Related Equity [ PDF: 106kb | 15 pages ]
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- Urban-Rural Disparities
- Regional Disparity within Countries
- Reasons for Regional Disparities: The Case of the PRC
- Urban Poverty
- Policy Implications
Sociocultural-Related Equity [ PDF: 40kb | 11 pages ]
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- Access and Equity in Education for Ethnic Minorities
Case One: Cambodia
Case Two: People’s Republic of China
Case Three: Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Case Four: Nepal
- Gender Disparity from a Sociocultural Perspective
- Policy Implications
Changing Values, Beliefs, and Awareness
Enhancing Equity and Access to Education
Patterns of Access and Equity in Education by Country Groupings [ PDF: 40kb | 9 pages ]
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- Gender, Education Enrollments and Education Expenditure
Education Enrollment
Public Current Expenditure on Higher Education
Access and Equity in Education and Earned Income Share by Gender
- Labor Force, Urban/Rural Population Distribution, and Education
Labor Force and Rural Population
Illiteracy, Rural Population, and Labor Force in Agriculture
- Female Political and Economic Participation
- High HDI and Low HDI Economies Compared: Hong Kong, China and Lao PDR
- Policy Implications
Conclusion [ PDF: 22kb | 5 pages ]
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- Gender-Related Equity
- Income-Related Equity
- Region-Related Equity
- Sociocultural-Related Equity
- Patterns of Access and Equity by Country Groupings
Note on the Author, References, Appendixes, and Index [ PDF: kb | 24 pages ]
© 2002 Asian Development Bank
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Series: Education in Developing Asia
Series editor: Mark Bray
Layout and index by Sara Wong.
The findings, interpretation, and conclusions expressed in this study are entirely
those of the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the Asian
Development Bank or the University of Hong Kong.
A summary of an earlier version of this booklet was presented as an article in
Vol.29, No.7 (1998) of the International Journal of Educational Research, published
by Pergamon Press. The publishers of this booklet thank Pergamon Press for
permission to reproduce some of the materials from the journal article.
ISBN 971-561-406-X
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