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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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transition -- Learning environment and outcomes -- Education expenditure and financing -- Disparity -- Education governance and … management -- Improving education: the cost of policy choices -- Appendices -- Appendix 2.1. Smoothing of the Sierra Leone …
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The purpose of this report is to provide an analysis of the education sector that enables a shared understanding among … stakeholders, and thus lays a foundation for the preparation of an Education Sector Plan. With this objective in mind, the study … outlines the current status of the education sector and highlights issues that policy makers need to address to move the sector …
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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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School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … helping children enroll on time, complete their education, and realize their cognitive potential. Achieving these goals …
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