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Figure 4: <strong>Education</strong> attainment among 15–19 year olds in the case study countries, latest year available(percentages)90No Schooling77787458565624103111 12 537322015733111511371612821 21827351812 1395Ethiopia Malawi Mali Nigeria Bangladesh India Nepal Pakistan CambodiaFemale/Rural Female/Urban Male/Rural Male/UrbanCompleted Primary884443587970766554498076664679706275675459673437343236262125124637Ethiopia Malawi Mali Nigeria Bangladesh India Nepal Pakistan CambodiaFemale/Rural Female/Urban Male/Rural Male/Urban021281 2201110 3 1 4 27Completed Grade 9513361163921452655 56Ethiopia Malawi Mali Nigeria Bangladesh India Nepal Pakistan CambodiaFemale/Rural Female/Urban Male/Rural Male/UrbanNotes: Survey dates are as follows: Bangladesh 1996/97, India 1999, Nepal 2001, Pakistan 1990, Cambodia 2000, Ethiopia 2000, Malawi 2000, Mali1996 and Nigeria 1999.Source: World Bank, educational attainment compiled from Demographic and Health Survey – Malawi 2000 data was kindly provided by Deon Filmer,World Bank.39124523446372145530103812
Figure 5: <strong>Education</strong> attainment by grade among 15–19 year olds in Cambodia, Ethiopia, India and Malawi in1999/20001India 1999 Ethiopia 200010.90.90.80.80.70.70.60.60.50.50.40.40.30.30.20.20.10.101 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9gradeFemale/Rural Female/UrbanMale/RuralMale/Urban01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9gradeFemale/Rural Female/UrbanMale/RuralMale/Urban10.90.80.70.60.50.40.30.20.1Cambodia 2000 Malawi 200010.90.80.70.60.50.40.30.20.101 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9gradeFemale/Rural Female/UrbanMale/RuralMale/Urban01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9gradeFemale/Rural Female/UrbanMale/RuralMale/UrbanSource: World Bank, educational attainment compiled from Demographic and Health Survey – Malawi 2000 data was kindly provided by Deon Filmer,World Bank.Sub-Saharan Africa, Grade 9 attainment rates formales are higher than they are for females. Thisdifferential is particularly large in urban BurkinaFaso, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, and Nigeria, as well asrural India and Pakistan.In overall terms, among the 32 countries with surveydata, nearly 40 per cent had acute, and another 12 percent had moderate, gender attainment gaps. Genderdifferentials were in favour of females in one-quarterof these countries (see Figure 6).13
Page 1 and 2: ContentsIntroduction 2Report object
Page 3 and 4: Box 1: Education Can Save Your Life
Page 5 and 6: travel on their own. As Sukhiya Yad
Page 7 and 8: 1. How big are the Education Gender
Page 9 and 10: Table 1: GER gender gaps for primar
Page 11: than 20 percentage points) in 15 co
Page 15 and 16: Table 3: GER gender gaps for primar
Page 17 and 18: Figure 8: Change in educational att
Page 19 and 20: 2. Why do fewer girls go to school?
Page 21 and 22: daughters to get a good enough educ
Page 23 and 24: Fees and charges for education have
Page 25 and 26: In Nepal, girls contribute at least
Page 27 and 28: fact that it is official policy tha
Page 29 and 30: 3. What has been done to close the
Page 31 and 32: However, international agencies cou
Page 33 and 34: Free primary education for allThe w
Page 35 and 36: Box 10: The Female Secondary School
Page 37 and 38: Ensuring girls’ safety anddignity
Page 39 and 40: Community schoolsThe emergence of v
Page 41 and 42: A number of other ‘alternative’
Page 43 and 44: 4. Beyond rhetoric:Making gender eq
Page 45 and 46: In Sub-Saharan Africa, the overall
Page 47 and 48: fewer resources, offer fewer hours
Page 49 and 50: governments to be able to commit ex
Page 51 and 52: Ilon, L. 1992. ‘Fitting girls’
Page 53 and 54: ANNEX 1Recommendations from the cou
Page 55 and 56: Ethiopia1.In order to reach the rur
Page 57 and 58: 4. Backward and forward linkages: I
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Female teachers1.Increase the numbe
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topics or subjects that will highli
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ANNEX 2Additional tablesAnnex 2 tab
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no schooling, no schooling, primary
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Annex 2 table 4: Percentage change
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