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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investment; Evidence From Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in...
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Inclusive Growth; An Application of the Social Opportunity Function to Selected African Countries
Adedeji, Olumuyiwa; Du, Huancheng; Opoku-Afari, Maxwell - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
last decade in the selected countries came with increased average opportunities in education and health; but distribution …
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Democratic Republic of the Congo; Joint Staff Advisory Note
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Joint Advisory Note on the Democratic Republic of the Congo discusses economic growth and employment-creating sectors. The agriculture and mining sectors are projected to continue their expansion, while simultaneously raising labor productivity and freeing up labor. The urban population is...
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Composition of Government Expenditures and Demand for Education in Developing Countries
Matovu, John; Dabla-Norris, Era - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
costs for different levels of schooling, we show that reducing household costs of primary education has the largest positive … impact on growth and poverty reduction in the short run. Moreover, an increase in higher education spending increases long …-run growth. These effects can be substantial even when increasing education spending comes at the expense of public …
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The Impact of Ethnic Heterogeneityon the Quantity and Quality of Public Spending
Kuijs, Louis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
education and the quality, or “technical efficiency” of spending. While it finds partial evidence for the claim that more …
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Columbia or High School? Understanding the Roles of Education in Development
Ramcharan, Rodney - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
No country has achieved sustained economic development without investment in education. Thus, education policy can play … development. In addition to identifying some characteristics of an optimal education policy, the paper helps in understanding why …
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Côte d’Ivoire; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
Côte d’Ivoire's government decided on the National Development Plan to give a new impetus to its development policy. This new strategy is based on an ambitious and realistic recovery and development program centered on private and public investment. The institutional monitoring framework for...
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Senegal; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This paper on Senegal’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper discusses the economic, social, and environmental performance of policies, the political and institutional environment, and the constraints weighing on its growth as well as the challenges to be addressed. The shortage of basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244228
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Singapore: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues Paper discusses some observations on Singapore’s monetary policy framework. Singapore’s monetary policy uses the nominal effective exchange rate (NEER) as the instrument in a basket-band-crawl framework. The paper finds that under some conditions an exchange...
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Kenya: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Joint Staff Advisory Note
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Joint Staff Advisory Note focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Kenya. Kenya’s second Medium Term Plan (MTP-2) that covers 2013–2017 seeks to build on the successes of the MTP1. It aims to accelerate growth to reach double-digit levels, to create jobs for...
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