Scientific diasporas as development partners skilled migrants from Colombia, India and South Africa in Switzerland : empirical evidence and policy responses /

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Service provision for the poor public and private sector cooperation /

Table of Contents: “…Evidence from a study of vouchers for private schooling in Colombia /…”
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Open Data in Developing Economies : Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How / by Verhulst, Stefaan (Stefaan G.)

Table of Contents: “…South Africa's Medicine Price Registry -- Open data's impact on creating opportunity. 12. Aclímate Colombia -- 13. Ghana's Esoko -- 14. Jamaica's Interactive Community Mapping -- Open data's impact on solving public problems. 15. …”
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Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South /

Table of Contents: “…Open access and OER in Latin America : a survey of the policy landscape in Chile, Colombia and Uruguay -- 5. Co-creation of OER by teachers and teacher educators in Colombia -- 6. …”
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Social health insurance for developing nations by Hsiao, William C.

Table of Contents: “…Hsiao -- The Philippines: extending coverage beyond the formal sector / Matthew Jowett and William C. Hsiao -- Colombia: social health insurance with managed competition to improve health care delivery / Diana Pinto and William C. …”
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Emerging evidence on vouchers and faith-based providers

Table of Contents: “…Public-private partnerships in education: an overview / Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Quentin Wodon -- The effectiveness of franchises and independent private schools in Chile's national voucher program / Gregory Elacqua, Dante Contreras, and Felipe Salazar -- Cognitive ability, heterogeneity, endogeneity and returns to schooling in Chile: outcomes of the 1981 capitation grant scheme / Harry Anthony Patrinos and Chris Sakellariou -- When schools are the ones that choose: the effect of screening in Chile / Dante Contreras, Sebastian Bustos, and Paulina Sepulveda -- How do vouchers work?: evidence from Colombia / Eric Bettinger, Michael Kremer, and Juan E. …”
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Governing global land deals : the role of the state in the rush for land /

Table of Contents: “…Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White -- State involvement, land grabbing and counter-insurgency in colombia / Jacobo Grajales -- Road mapping : megaprojects and land grabs in the northern guatemalan lowlands / Liza Grandia -- Land regularization in brazil and the global land grab / Gustavo de L.T. …”
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