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, especially for girls. Increases in schooling are matched by an increase in education expenditures that appears to absorb most of …
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"This paper investigates the relationship of household income with child labor. The analysis uses a rich dataset obtained in the context of a conditional cash transfer program in a poor region of Nicaragua in 2005 and 2006. The program has a strong productive emphasis and seeks to diversify the...
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, poverty and inequality increases. The needed acceleration of human, and social capital development focuses on education …, health, and the decline of crime and violence, suggesting continued implementation of primary education reforms, through the … development of new curriculum, improved quality of basic education, and educational financing. Health recommendations include …
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"Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift. However, empirical detection of poverty traps is complicated by the lack of long panels, measurement error, and attrition. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can...
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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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