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Different Paths to Student Learning : Good Practices and Student Performance - Identifying Success from Municipal School Systems in Brazil
World Bank - 2012
education policy literature. This study seeks to identify the good policies and practices that lead students in some municipal …
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Inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunities in Brazil
Bourguignon, François - 2003
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Human capital and earnings inequality in Brazil, 1988-98 : / quantile regression evidence
Arabsheibani, G. R. - 2003
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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil Title: Educación, antecedentes familiares y desigualdad interracial del salario en Brasil Title: Educação, ant...
Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This study combines survey data with annual state data on pupil-teacher ratios covering broadly the period 1940-90 to investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent...
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Brazil - Early Child Development : A Focus on the Impact of Preschools
World Bank - 2013
-schooling are higher enrollments among older children, showing that enrollments - eight percent in the 0-3 age group - were seen to …
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Brazil : Maternal and Child Health
World Bank - 2013
-100 percent from the next to lowest income quintile, to the lowest. Several interventions, such as strategies to promote … that the federal government programs in women and children's health could be expanded by prioritizing on failed expenditure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012558698
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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil
Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This study combines survey data with annual state data on pupil-teacher ratios covering broadly the period 1940-90 to investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653996
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Commute Time in Brazil (1992-2009): Differences Between Metropolitan Areas, by Income Levels and Gender
Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Schwanen, Tim - Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), … - 2013
according to income levels and gender. This paper is based on the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) carried out by the … (MAs) in the country, than the in the other MAs. Second, workers in the poorest population segment (1st income decile … commuting times. However, these worsening conditions have been more pronounced in the 1st income decile and especially the 7th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858249
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Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?
Werneck, Rogério L.F.; Irwin, Timothy; Sturzenegger, … - Inter-American Development Bank
Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects...
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