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already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The …
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The rapid increase in adult mortality due to the AIDS epidemic in sub- Saharan Africa raises great concern about its impact on child welfare. This article estimates the impact of AIDS-related adult mortality on primary school attendance in rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed...
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FRAMEWORK THAT WILL GUARANTEE THE ATTAINMENT OF THE UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS(AS WELL AS THE CAPACITY TO LIVE …
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The effect of human capital on growth and development has been somewhat neglected in economic literature. However … and development are concerned. We also show that the decentralized equilibrium leads to less investment in high-techs than …. When compared to data, the model does well in explaining the rate of growth and the level of development (less robustly) as …
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framework that will guarantee the attainment of the United Nations millennium development goals(as well as the capacity to live …
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of a negative effect of technological development on the accumulation of high-tech human capital. Under this new and … capital composition and the transition across stages of development are endogenously determined. We relate an increasing R …
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Research and Development (R&D) endogenous growth models predict and most evidence show that investment in R&D increases … with economic development. We consider the type of human capital mainly used in research labs and show that the richest …
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-wage gaps. Gender-equitable macroeconomic and development policies are thus required, including financial market regulation …Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious … effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example …
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of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This …Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …
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, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life …
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