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In this book Peter Lindert evaluates environmental concerns about soil degradation in two very large countries--China and Indonesia--where anecdotal evidence has suggested serious problems. Lindert does what no scholar before him has done: using new archival data sets, he measures changes in...
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, transition, labor markets, and education. A theme common to all the essays is the importance of education in reducing inequality …
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tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education's equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of … suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international …
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, applicability, and acceptability, giving an overview of current research on information technology at work, at home, in education … systems; expert systems in the health field; health care; the disabled; computers in education; attitudes toward the new …
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