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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408428
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556956
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Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying for Migration and Teaching for Staying?
Poutvaara, Panu - EconWPA - 2004
Both current and especially new member states of the European Union face incentives to distort the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education towards country-specific skills. This would mean educating too few engineers, economists and doctors, and too many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125879
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Egalitarian and elitist education systems as the basis for international differences in wage inequality
Wälde, Klaus - EconWPA - 2002
This paper investigates one reason why some countries have experienced a strong increase in wage inequality over the last decades while others have not. The explanation is based on the link between the quality of education and induced technological change. A country with qualitatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125905
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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality
Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001
This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125917
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On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education
Poutvaara, Panu - EconWPA - 2003
I analyze simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education using a model with three overlapping generations and ability differences inside each cohort. Wage tax revenue finances public education and social security benefits. I derive the results both for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125919
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The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data
Rockoff, Jonah - EconWPA - 2003
Teacher quality is widely believed to be important for education, despite little evidence that teachers' credentials matter for student achievement. To accurately measure variation in achievement due to teachers' characteristics-both observable and unobservable-it is essential to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125945
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Educating Europe
Poutvaara, Panu - EconWPA - 2003
The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. Such effects may be especially severe for the prospective new member states of the European Union. The European Union could overcome this by allowing countries to institute graduate taxes or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125946
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An Analysis of Disparities in Education: The Case of Primary School Completion Rates in Bolivia
Ochoa, Marcelo; Bonifaz, Alejandra - EconWPA - 2003
The Education Reform Program launched in the mid-1990s by the Government of Bolivia had important accomplishments, particularly by increasing the coverage of primary education. However, the high rates of coverage observed at national level conceal the inequality in the distribution of schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134614
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Responses of Private and Public Schools to Voucher Funding:The Czech and Hungarian Experience
Filer, Randall K.; Münich, Daniel - EconWPA - 2001
A state monopoly in schooling followed the collapse of communism in Central Europe. The centrally planned system was abandoned. Systems comparable with educational voucher scheme, also known as school choice system, were introduced in the Czech Republic and Hungary in the early 1990s. The newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413012