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(Promoting Local Innovation). The Ethiopian program set up multi-stakeholder teams in different agro climatic zones. The paper …
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"The authors develop an endogenous growth model that combines structural change with repeated product improvement. That is, the technologies in one sector of the model become not only increasingly capital-intensive, but also progressively productive over time. Application of the basic model to...
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"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 industrial and developing countries, from 1982 to 1997. They measure export product variety by the share of U.S. imports on the set of goods exported by each sampled country relative to...
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describes the human capital needs of the new growth agenda and focuses on education and skills. Chapter three examines the …
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During the last century, Brazil was one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Between 1901 and 2000, Brazil's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita grew at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent. Brazil's long-run growth has rivaled that of counties such as South Korea, universally...
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Without rapid and substantial improvements in education access and quality, broader poverty reduction efforts in Sub … intractable problems of education in Sub-Saharan Africa is perhaps greater than at any time in the past two decades. Economic … growth has resumed in many countries; the political commitment to education development is strong; and new democracies have …
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The paper highlights that the education of children, and youth merits the highest priority in a world afflicted by HIV …/AIDS, specifically because a good basic education ranks among the most effective - and cost-effective - means of HIV prevention. It also … merits priority because the very education system that supplies a nation's future, is being greatly threatened by the …
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environment for the sector. Public spending for education, relative to the gross domestic product declined in the 90s, coinciding … late 90s, public spending on education began to recover, and can be expected to grow. A key challenge however, is to …. The report identifies challenges at all levels of formal education, where a medium term goal is to achieve universal …
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