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Education, incomes, poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s

Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004

consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level …

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Books, Buildings and Learning Outcomes: an impact evaluation of World Bank assistance to basic education in Ghana

White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo - EconWPA - 2005

This paper demonstrates that the delivery of hardware inputs to Ghana’s basic education system – building classrooms …’s support for school building has been a major factor behind Ghana being on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of … that little learning can take place. Special attention needs to be paid to these least-privileged schools if Ghana is to …

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Rational and Biased Trust

Barr, Abigail - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective model of trustworthiness or are biased. Combining experimental and survey data, I find that Ghanaian workers appropriately take account of the religiousness of trustees, but...

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Sectoral Shift, Wealth Distribution, and Development

Yuki, Kazuhiro - EconWPA - 2005

There are two phenomena widely observed when an economy departs from an underdeveloped state and starts rapid economic growth. One is the shift of production, employment, and consumption from the traditional sector to the modern sector, and the other is a large increase in educational levels of...

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The rural non-farm economy, Livelihoods and their

Davis, Junior - EconWPA - 2005

The rural non-farm economy (RNFE) may be defined as comprising all those activities associated with waged work or self-employment in income generating activities (including income in-kind) that are not agricultural but which generate income (including remittances etc.) rural areas. In some...

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The Janus Development Strategy: Jamaica In Transition

Jones, Peter w - EconWPA - 2005

The ability to see past and present simultaneously must be of prime importance in any development scenario. This speaks to the essence of the Janus Development Strategy, whose philosophy is outlined below. .......................Janus was represented with two faces, originally one face was...

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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development.The Case of Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and the quality of economic development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing different aspects of economic development and...

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Internal Migration and Borrowing Constraints: Evidence from Peru

Laszlo, Sonia; Santor, Eric - EconWPA - 2004

The decision to migrate has received substantial attention from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Underlying most analyses is the desire to understand why individuals relocate within their own country, or more drastically, migrate to another country. While there are numerous reasons...

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Natural Resource Abundance and Human Capital Accumulation

Stijns, Jean-Philippe C. - EconWPA - 2001

This study examines indicators of human capital accumulation together with data for natural resource abundance and rents in a panel of 102 countries running from 1970 to 1999. Mineral wealth makes a positive and marked difference on human capital accumulation. Matching on observables reveals...

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The empirics of social capital and economic development. A critical perspective

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...

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