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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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the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …
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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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the various professions. Singapores education system has an important role to play in equipping the young with the right … qualities. This could be better achieved by moving away from an overly rigid education system that places undue emphasis on rote … learning and examination scores, to an education system that develops students creativity and critical thinking abilities, and …
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poor, of the costs of education after the BBM (fuel) price rose. Different from the previous PKPS-BBM that had been … all 10 samples of kabupaten/kota and divided into two parts, namely FGDs with stakeholders in the field of education at …
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Based on the notion that good health is one of the basic right of all citizens, the Government of Indonesia (GoI) has promoted programs on health care financing for the poor. One of these programs is the Jaminan Pemeliharaan Kesehatan (JPK). In 2003, the pilot project on JPK for the poor...
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This paper estimates production functions of child cognitive and social development using a panel data of nine-year old children each with over two hundred home and school inputs as well as family background variables. A tree regression method is used to conduct estimation under various...
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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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We investigate whether TV watching at ages 6-7 and 8-9 affects cognitive development measured by math and reading scores at ages 8-9 using a rich childhood longitudinal sample from NLSY79. Dynamic panel data models are estimated to handle the unobserved child-specific factor, endogeneity of TV...
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