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"The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line of developing countries, but are still poor by US standards. The "Western middle class" is defined as those who are not poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people...
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This note assesses pre-university education in Kosovo and identifies policies that can improve education quality and … equity. There is a substantial need for improvement to the foundations of the education system, especially in terms of …, making it a policy to invest in human capital through education must be a priority. The low levels of foundational literacy …
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et des résultats de l’éducation. Malgré lesinitiatives positives de la Mauritanie, la richesse encapital humain par …’être s’ils avaient bénéficiéd'une éducation complète et d’une santé optimale.Augmenter la productivité des mauritaniens …
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inequality in countries well-endowed in highly skilled workers and capital or with workers that have very low education levels … and suggest that trade liberalization in poor countries where the share of the labor force with very low education levels … (likely employed in nontradable activities) is high raises inequality. In the sample, countries with low education levels also …
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"The author analyzes the stability of the empirical relationship between growth and changes in inequality over time. He concludes that while during the 1970s and 1980s the growth process was not accompanied by increases in inequality, during the 1990s a positive and significant correlation...
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"The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....
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"It has been argued that inequality should be of little concern in poor countries on the grounds that (1) absolute poverty in terms of consumption (or income) is the overriding issue in poor countries, and (2) the only thing that really matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of...
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