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Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP)
RECOUP is a partnership of seven institutions from UK and four developing countries - Kenya, Ghana, India and Pakistan - coordinated by the University of Cambridge. Established with DFID funding in 2005, it is a five-year research programme during which more children than ever before - particularly those from poor households - will be moving through schooling and training to become working youths and adults. Their fortunes will be affected not only by their educational experiences, but also by the broader context of welfare and opportunity. The multi-sectoral objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) acknowledge this inter-dependence. Yet its nature and strength are not fully understood, and judgments about priorities for policy change, or about their sequencing, are not always firmly based.

The research will help clarify these matters, focusing on the circumstances of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa - the two regions where the challenge of achieving the MDG objective of halving world poverty by 2015 is greatest, and where the policy benefits are most urgently required.

Visit http://recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk for more information about RECOUP