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Education in every sense is one of the fundamental factors of development. No country can achieve sustainable economic … development without substantial investment in human capital. Education enriches people’s understanding of themselves and world. It … improves the quality of their lives and leads to broad social benefits to individuals and society. Education raises people …
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This paper analyses the relations between poverty, inequality and economic growth in Brazil. First of all, based on … recent research, it shows characteristics and historical evolution of inequality and poverty. These characteristics are not … growth and inequality on poverty and agree with both empirical evidences from recent papers and results found by those …
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This paper provides a critical review of aid effectiveness in Bangladesh . It focuses on the contributions of three major, high-profile donors: the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Government of Japan (GOJ). In assessing aid effectiveness, the paper uses a qualitative...
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’s main goal is poverty reduction, not economic growth. In this paper, aid’s impact on poverty, growth, and inequality are …, are used. The main finding is that economic growth reduces poverty, but also aid, although less than growth, and not under … evidence of foreign aid’s effect on poverty. …
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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 … and scope of the pandemic and its anticipated impact on education systems in heavily infected sub-Saharan African … (SADC) region. The paper concludes by suggesting how the education sector can improve its management response to the …
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education coefficient. Households at risk of poverty are also taken into account. Income inequality is measured by way of the … coefficient, as well as between education and households at risk of poverty. The biggest share is represented by households where … negative dependence between the education level and number of households at risk of poverty. Within analyzed period of five …
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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 … poverty reduction and educational advancement in the name of “education elasticity of poverty”. Education elasticity of …
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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 … other non-rice food items or/and by reducing the non-food expenditure, i.e., expenses on their children education. High … the households could not continue to bear the expenses on their children’s education. A significant proportion 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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Development Goals (MDGs) and ‘Education for All’ program, education is promulgated as the primary weapon against poverty … prevalence. Hence it is important to seek out the effect of different levels of education upon poverty in Pakistan. This study … poverty incidence in both years. Also as we go for the higher levels of education the chances of a person being non …
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