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jointly explains patterns of political participation at the individual level and differences in public investment in education …
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responsibleneed not delay reforms in higher education. In fact, the global recession is an opportune time for higher education in the … efficiency, and regional collaboration. This paper proposes a series of measures to increase the resilience of higher education … programs of study; (iii) community-based vocational and technical higher education that provides jobs in a rapidly changing …
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This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to poverty in the Philippines. It examines one of the mechanisms behind this link by focusing on the relation between number of children and school attendance of children 6 to 24 years old. It surveys the international...
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Higher education in India suffers from several systemic deficiencies. As a result, it continues to provide graduates … academic research are low and declining. Some of the problems of the Indian higher education, such as the unwieldy affiliating … little informed public debate on higher education in India. …
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In this paper we consider the standard voting model with a finite set of alternatives A and n voters and address the …
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Houses floor at the time, and we aggregate them according to parties. We find that voting patters generate basically a two …
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the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …
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the eight MDGs. The MDGs include eradication of extreme poverty and hunger; universal primary education; gender equality … elementary participation rate, the elementary cohort survival rate, gender equality in education, the maternal mortality rate and …, namely : Goal 1 (poverty and hunger), Goal 2 (education), Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal health), Goal 6 (control …
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inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in accessing more remunerative nonfarm employment. Other household …
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educational capital. However, in education, the rich and the poor are separated by two different educational divisions …--private and public--and of high quality and low-quality education. Poor children encounter lack of access to quality education due … to a high dropping out rate at an early age and going to public schools that offer low quality education. The lack of …
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