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Thanks to Dennis McConnell for posting this.
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New CEE/CIS research and free database from the UNICEF International
Child Development Centre (ICDC)
1. Education for all? - the 5th Regional Monitoring Report
2. The TransMONEE database 3.0 - Download for free!
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1. EDUCATION FOR ALL?
The MONEE project (Monitoring Public Policy and Social Conditions in
Central and Eastern Europe) annual Regional Monitoring Report is a
unique source of information on the social side of the transition
taking place in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth
of Independent States (CIS). Each year's Report contains an update on
the welfare of children and families in the region, together with an
in-depth analysis of a topic of special focus.
The focus of this year's Report is education, a subject of vital
importance for the welfare of children and for the development of the
societies in the region. The Report covers a broad range of issues,
including enrolment and other measures of access, learning
achievement, schooling costs faced by families, education for children
with special needs, early childhood development, and the
decentralization of educational systems. The Report emphasizes the
need for public policy to promote good education for all children and
warns of growing inequalities in educational systems
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2. FREE DATABASE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR CEE/CIS COUNTRIES
The TransMONEE 3.0 is the public-use version of the economic and
social indicators database from the MONEE project. The menu-driven
database allows the retrieval and manipulation of economic and social
indicators for 27 CEE/CIS countries. The programme includes a guide
and extensive table notes which are available on-line. This new
release includes data updated through 1996, and provides a 32-bit
Windows (tm) NT/95 user interface in addition to the Windows (tm) 3.1
version also available.
The database can be downloaded without cost from three different web
sites. For more information, access the UNICEF ICDC web site at:
http://www.unicef-icdc.it/information/databases/index.htm, the
Centre's for Europe's Children at http://eurochild.gla.ac.uk or
contact the ICDC office in Florence
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For further information about the report and database, please contact:
Economic and Social Policy Programme, UNICEF ICDC
Piazza SS. Annunziata, 12
50122 Florence, Italy
Tel: (39-055) 234-5258 / Fax: (39-055) 244-817
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
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