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Education Impact Study : The Global Recession and the Capacity of Colleges and Universities to Serve Vulnerable Populations in Asia

Postiglione, Gerard - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global recessionan Asia far more economically integrated than during past economic shocks, with more...

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Chinese Education Finance : Issues and Challenges

Rong, Wang - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

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Public Provision of Education and Government Spending in Pakistan

Akram, Muhammad; Khan, Faheem Jehangir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on education in Pakistan at the provincial (both rural and urban) level, using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard Living Measures Survey (PSLM), 2004-2005, and by employing the three-step Benefit...

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Higher Education in India - The Need for Change

Agarwal, Pawan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Higher education in India suffers from several systemic deficiencies. As a result, it continues to provide graduates that are unemployable despite emerging shortages of skilled manpower in an increasing number of sectors. The standards of academic research are low and declining. Some of the...

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Benefit Incidence Analysis of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines : A Methodological Note

Cuenca, Janet S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

Benefit incidence analysis (BIA) is a tool used to assess how tax policy or government subsidy affects the distribution of welfare in the population. In other words, it evaluates the distribution of government subsidies among different groups in the population, in particular, among different...

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Building Up A Market-oriented Research and Education Institution in A Transitional Economy - The Experience of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University

Lin, Justin Yifu - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

At the beginning of transition from the socialist planning economy to a market economy, China did not have a modern … economics profession and the contribution of modern economics to China's transition was little. However, there has been …, the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University was built in 1994 with the initial supports and …

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