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Paper Text,
180 pages
978-1-933286-14-3,
18.95
Girls' education, indisputably crucial to development, has received a lot of attention—but surprisingly little hardheaded analysis to inform practical policy solutions. In Inexcusable Absence, Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed propose new strategies for reaching the 70 percent of out-of-school girls who are "doubly disadvantaged" by their ethnicity, language, or other factors. The book will be an important tool for policymakers, informing interventions that can make a profound impact on the lives of the 60 million out-of-school girls.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Marlaine E. Lockheed
Marlaine E. Lockheed is a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development. She served as director for education, ad interim, for the World Bank from 2000 to 2001, and managed units responsible for education strategy and lending in the Middle East and North Africa.
Maureen A. Lewis
Maureen A. Lewis is an adviser to the Human Development vice president of the World Bank and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development. She was formerly chief economist of the Human Development Network of the World Bank.
Selected Reviews
"This is a very welcome report on an extraordinarily important problem, and I hope it will receive the attention it richly deserves."
Amartya Sen,
Nobel Laureate and Lamont University Professor of Economics and Philosophy
"Lewis and Lockheed are the ideal people to write about this timely topic; their ability to look at the phenomenon of doubly disadvantaged girls from thei different perspectives provides insights that more narrow investigations lack."
Eric A. Hanushek,
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
"INEXCUSABLE ABSENCE is an extremely useful volume for those who seek to promote gender equality and a major contribution to the field of education policy."
Geeta Rao Gupta,
President, International Center for Research on Women