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This open access volume addresses the link between international taxation, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the medium-term revenue strategy concept. It also analyses how countries and governments can reinforce this link in current and future initiatives in international taxation,...
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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This paper aims to show the evolution of the role and importance of education in economic theory, especially in … of the role and importance of education in the development process. Presentation of the classification theory refers to … theories of interdependence of education and development (theory of human capital, human development and approach to the …
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Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
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education in schools and universities to noninstitutional forms of learning such as home study. The dynamic effects of shifts in … education policy as well as their welfare implications are also calculated in the paper. …
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The idea of positive educational externalities is that the benefits of individually acquired education may not be … still largely divided on whether the stock of education affects the long-run level or growth rate of the economy. A one …-year increase in average education is found to raise the level of output per capita by between 3 and 6 percent according to …
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