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Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Paying families to send children to school
1 June 2009
Alliance magazine
Increasing school attendance rates is the main goal of most education programmes. However, it is not at all clear how best to get families to send their children to school. In countries where incomes are very low, children, even young ones, are needed to help support the family in some way – either working in the home or going out to work. So school sometimes takes a back seat to performing other duties.
