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prevalence. Hence it is important to seek out the effect of different levels of education upon poverty in Pakistan. This study …Poverty is a stumbling block in the way of achieving economic development. Cognizant of the essence of Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) and ‘Education for All’ program, education is promulgated as the primary weapon against poverty …
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sector education in the four provinces of Pakistan would be useful to provide feedbacks to the provincial administrations of …
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assess the impact of human capital in poverty alleviation. A cross-sectional data of 34 districts of Punjab province was used … services are found to have poverty lessening impact in the economy. The results are statistically robust as adjudged by the R … earnings of the workers. Furthermore, improved human capital can play its role in reducing multidimensional poverty and its …
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This article deals with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on poverty and education in Africa. It considers the scale …
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said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a … poverty and education and many more international studies revealed that improvement in education reducing poverty resulted in … regional balanced development. This paper aims to analyze the regional disparities in reducing poverty and increase in literacy …
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This study has explored the impact of the rise in food prices on the education of children in the poor and vulnerable households in Bangladesh. It appears that during early 2008 the prices of rice, pulses and edible oil increased tremendously which threatened the status of food security of these...
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This paper analyses the impact of adverse economic shocks on human capital formation in the case of India. It uses the extended theoretical model of Basu and Van (1998). The study has been carried out for the period between 1999 and 2002 and covers 385 districts. The results show that during a...
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Using a randomized trial, we evaluate the impact of a free privately-managed middle school in a poor neighborhood. The research compares over time adolescents randomly selected to enter Liceo-Jubilar and those that were not drawn in the lottery. Besides positive impacts on expectations, we find...
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The purpose of this study is to build a stronger evidence base on the role of faith-inspired and private secular schools in sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative household surveys as well as qualitative data. Six main findings emerge from the study: (1) Across a sample of 16...
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The impact of education on earnings and thus on poverty works largely through labour market. Along with some other … socio economic factors, education does play a crucial role to alleviate poverty. Better educated people has greater … to make an attempt to show how the universalization of education can be used as a tool to eradicate poverty in near …
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