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Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household attributes and returns to those attributes. This paper uses Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions at the mean as well as at different quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally...
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With growing international skilled labor mobility, education and migration decisions have become increasingly inter …, savings, or the cost of education. The authors develop a generic dynamic general equilibrium model to analyze the education … migrant households, low dependency ratios in source countries, increasing returns to scale in the education sector …
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The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line of developing countries, but are still poor by US standards. The "Western middle class" is defined as those who are not poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people...
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were no education facilities and too few female school graduates who could be trained in the provinces. Given the dire … situation, the shortage of midwives had to be remedied urgently. The community Midwifery Education (CME) Program was created. …
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The aim of this volume is to draw international attention to the key role that education can play in both preventing … the devastating consequences of conflict on a country's education systems and outcomes, as well to emphasize the … importance of maximizing the opportunities to reform education systems presented by a reconstruction setting, adopting a long …
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