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Human Capital for a Knowledge Society Higher Education in the Maldives : An Evolving Seascape
World Bank - 2012
The Republic of Maldives, a middle-income country of extraordinary natural beauty, is one of the most advanced nations in South Asia. The Maldives consists of an archipelago of nearly 1,200 islands and a population of approximately 400,000 inhabitants; 310,000 Maldivians and 90,000 expatriate...
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Vietnam : Higher Education and Skills for Growth
World Bank - 2012
The demand for skills has been increasing significantly in Vietnam, due to a combination of inter-industry employment changes, capital accumulation and some evidence which is consistent with skill-biased technical change. As a result employment opportunities for tertiary graduates now exist in...
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Primary education in India
1997
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Expanding and Improving Upper Primary Education in India
World Bank - 2013
This report considers the current status of upper primary school education in India. It looks at future impacts and …
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Progress in participation in tertiary education in India from 1983 to 2004
Azam, Mehtabul - 2008
access to tertiary (higher) education in India from 1983 to 2005. The findings suggest that there has been considerable …
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Secondary Education in India : Universalizing Opportunity
World Bank - 2012
continue for the next 10 years. At the same time, India's impressive, sustained economic growth has increased household and …, but medium to long-term in producing results. India needs to make the public qualitative investments now in teacher … outcomes; and promote standardization of curriculum and examinations across states. In addition, India's recent decision to …
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Secondary Education in India : Universalizing Opportunity
World Bank - 2012
continue for the next 10 years. At the same time, India's impressive, sustained economic growth has increased household and …, but medium to long-term in producing results. India needs to make the public qualitative investments now in teacher … outcomes; and promote standardization of curriculum and examinations across states. In addition, India's recent decision to …
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Madhya Pradesh Higher Education Reform Policy Options
World Bank - 2012
cusp of the publication of the Government of India s 12th Five Year Plan. The indications are that the Government of India …
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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation
Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009
"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...
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Natural disasters, self-insurance and human capital investment : evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2009
"This paper examines the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The empirical results show that the accumulation of biological human capital prior to disasters helps children maintain investments in the post-disaster...
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