http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/international_asc_rw/rss Recent eScholarship items from Other Recent Work Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:33:12 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j83g40p <p>Compelling evidence is available today to link education with numerous benefits, which combine to contribute to the popular view that education is the foundation of development. This is like stating the obvious but just as a reminder: The World Conference on Education for All, held in 1990 in Jomtien, Thailand, underlined the role of education for ensuring a safer, healthier, more environmentally sound world. The conference also identified education as a crucial contributor to social, economic and cultural progress, tolerance, and capacity for cooperation, among other benefits. This paper discusses challenges facing education in Sub-Saharan Africa, and in particular the need to accelerate the education of girls and women as a prerequisite for Africa’s development.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j83g40p Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jn89711 <p>This paper argues that between 1881 and 1948, the British Colonial Government consciously and systematically debauched the pre-existing currencies of Southern Nigeria, replacing them with British currency without fair provision for compensating the African population for their losses. The impact of these measures was to impoverish many a "British protected Person" in Southern Nigeria. The manner in which this currency revolution was accomplished, and with what results, is the subject of this paper.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jn89711 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Ibekwe Ofonagoro, Walter