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World Bank Group - 2020

This note provides practical guidance to national governments about key priorities for the education sector following a … major disaster or crisis. It specifies a set of considerations and actions to help ensure that the education sector can: (1 …

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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings

Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020

paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of …

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Malaysia's economic growth and transition to high income : an application of the World Bank Long Term Growth Model (LTGM)

Devadas, Sharmila; Guzman, Jorge; Kim, Young Eun; … - 2020

This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...

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The targeting benefit of conditional cash transfers

Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William - 2020

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a popular type of social welfare program that make payments to households conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low-income households as access is tied to normal...

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Affirmative action, education and gender : evidence from India

Cassan, Guilhem - In: Journal of development economics 136 (2019), pp. 51-70

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World Development Report 2018 : Learning to Realize Education's Promise

2017

development. The 2018 WDR-LEARNING to Realize Education's Promise-is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is … right: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social … promote education. The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: First, education's promise: education is a powerful instrument for …

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The lost human capital : teacher knowledge and student achievement in Africa

Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Svensson, Jakob - 2019

-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …

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Learning-adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) : defining a new macro measure of education : background paper to the 2019 World Development Report

Filmer, Deon; Rogers, Halsey; Angrist, Noam; Sabarwal, … - 2018

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …

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Quality education and the efficiency of public expenditure : a cross-country comparative analysis

Miningou, Elise Wendlassida - 2019

Improving access to quality education has been the backbone of several development strategies around the world and … education expenditure would drive better access to quality education despite the inefficiencies plaguing public sectors in … general. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficiency with which public education spending is translated into …

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A socioeconomic disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

D'Souza, Ritika; Gatti, Roberta; Kraay, Aart - 2019

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …

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