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Remittances, liquidity constraints and human capital investments in Ecuador.

Bedi, Arjun Singh; Sparrow, Robert; Calero, Calero, C. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008

Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers. This paper investigates how remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and facilitate households in consumption...

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Remittances, liquidity constraints and human capital investments in Ecuador.

Calero, C.; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2008

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The Impact of School Quality on Earnings and Educational Returns

Bedi, Arjun Singh; Edwards, Edwards, J.H.Y. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2001

The expansion of education has been widely adopted as a key element in the development strategies of low-income countries. While there is substantial evidence on the benefits of greater educational attainment for subsequent labor market earnings, empirical evidence on the role played by school...

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The Birth of the New Order State in Indonesia

Wieringa, Wieringa, S.E. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2001

itself not only by its destruction of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI, Partai Komunis Indonesia), as other scholars … against the PKI’s women’s organization Gerwani (Gerakan Wanita Indonesia, Indonesian Women’s Movement). This campaign was … pursued for more than 30 years since the 1 October 1965 putsch in Indonesia which eventually brought Soeharto to power. It …

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Effects of decentralized health care financing on maternal care in Indonesia

Sparrow, Robert; Bedi, Arjun Singh; Hartwig, Hartwig, R.; … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2015

We exploit variation in the design of sub-national health care financing initiatives in Indonesian districts to assess the effects of these local schemes on maternal care from 2004 to 2010. The analysis is based on a district pseudo-panel, combining data from a unique survey among District...

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