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"This paper uses a new, 2005/06 nationally-representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control for selection and endogeneity, it uses a two-stage...
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"The author uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty in Ghana. With only one exception, he finds that both types of remittances reduce the level,...
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education, health, and housing. The analysis shows that a large amount of remittance money goes into education. At the margin …, households receiving internal and international remittances spend 45 and 58 percent more, respectively, on education, than do … households with no remittances. These increased expenditures on education represent investment in human capital. Like other …
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"Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors … sector. Workers in the public sector earn higher private rates of return to education than do private sector workers with …
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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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males, the age and education differences between partners tended to decline. The period had a lasting impact on the … educational attainment of the population. The education system collapsed during the period, so individuals--especially males …
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