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This collection of studies of public attitudes to development co-operation in OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Member countries demonstrates that the concept of "aid fatigue" is misplaced. A serious lack of adequate knowledge about development co-operation, however, is also revealed....
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The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective …, first published in 2001 and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains Statlinks …, a service providing access to the underlying data in Excel® format. These two volumes bring together estimates of world …
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ways to strengthen students’ capacity to navigate the new world of information. It highlights how countries need to …
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, “exporter ranking”, is for investors whose prime concern is for a production platform well-integrated into world trade …
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Angus Maddison provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world population since the year 1000 when rich … countries of today were poorer than Asia and Africa. The gap between the world leader, the US and the poorest region, Africa, is … reference and a sequel to the author's Monitoring the World Economy: 1820-1992, published in 1995 and his 1998 Chinese Economic …
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Following his The World Economy: a Millennial Perspective, Angus Maddison here offers a rare insight into the history … tables showing Maddison’s estimates for the world and its major regions from as early as the year 1000. It is intended as a … and economic history as well as for statisticians. …
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Drawing on data from the OECD’s Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), this report examines the performance of students with immigrant backgrounds and compares it to that of their native counterparts. As well as providing information on countries’ approaches to the...
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Assessment (PISA), Are Students Ready for a Technology-Rich World? What PISA Studies Tell Us, examines whether access to …
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In this report, the OECD and UNESCO Institute for Statistics have broadened PISA’s coverage to include eleven countries that recently joined the program: Albania; Argentina; Bulgaria; Chile; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Israel; FYR Macedonia; Peru; Romania and Thailand. Besides a wider geographic...
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This book examines the results of the special portion of the 2003 PISA survey of student achievement that relates to problem-solving skills. Covering 40 countries, it provides, for the first time, a direct assessment of life competencies that apply across different areas of the school...
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