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Does foreign aid in education foster gender equality in developing countries?
Maiga, Eugenie W.H. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854450
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Gender and Education as Determinants of Household Poverty in Nigeria
Okojie, Christiana E.E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031723
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Public Policies to Promote Productive Occupation and Increase Formality among the Moderately Poor: The Mexican Agenda
Sojo, Eduardo; Villarreal, Roberto - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033235
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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi: A micro-simulation
Nanivazo, Malokele - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on chil
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854474
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Youth in Tanzania.s urbanizing mining settlements: Prospecting a mineralized future
Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a .mining take-off.. Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-in
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854481
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Redistribution without Structural Change in Ecuador: Rising and Falling Income Inequality in the 1990s and 2000s
Ponce, Juan; Vos, Rob - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a .new leftist. government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854507
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The risks to education systems from design mismatch and global isomorphism: Concepts, with examples from India
Pritchett, Lant - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The incredibly low levels of learning and the generally dysfunctional public sector schooling systems in many (though not all) developing countries are the result of a capability trap (Pritchett et al. 2010). Two phenomena reinforce persistent failure of
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854522
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Enhancing Sensitivity to Conflict Risks in World Bank-funded Activities : Lessons from the Kyrgyz Republic
Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank Group - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937845
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Did Trade Openness Affect Income Distribution in Latin America? Evidence for the years 1980.2010
Szekely, Miguel; Samano, Claudia - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
obstacle to improvements in income distribution triggered by other factors such as greater education levels across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653087
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Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Gasparini, Leonardo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage … 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653092