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Age at first child : does education delay fertility timing? the case of Kenya

Ferre, Celine - 2009

mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility …. To get around the endogeneity issue between schooling and fertility preferences, the analysis uses the 1985 Kenyan …

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Niger : Providing All Nigeriens with Food, Education and Health Car, A Demographic Perspective

World Bank - 2012

The analysis focuses on: (1) the study of population (development and impact on different sectors) and reproductive health issues, including the HIV/AIDS epidemic; (2) examination of institutional structures responsible for population and reproductive health issues; (3) the performance of the...

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Argentina : Sources of Growth, Seeking Sustained Economic Growth with Social Equity

World Bank - 2012

This report attempts to analyze selected topics, chosen in collaboration with the Argentine authorities, regarding the inter-linkages between economic growth, income distribution and poverty, as well as the respective roles of these factors in explaining the historical underperformance of the...

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Albania Country Economic Memorandum : Strengthening the Sustainability of Albania's Growth Model

World Bank - 2021

Albania is gradually emerging from the unprecedented economic disruptions caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As the pandemic is overcome, it is crucial to shift attention back to Albania's long-term objective of building a stronger underlying economic growth model. This...

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Resilient Development - A Strategy to Diversify Cambodia's Growth Model : Cambodia Country Economic Memorandum

World Bank - 2021

The devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Cambodian economy - where the growth slowdown was among the most pronounced in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region - lies in the country’s growth generating process. Recent growth has been remarkable, but insufficiently diversified in...

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Post-Basic Education and Training in Rwanda : Skills Development for Dynamic Economic Growth

World Bank - 2013

Improved access to and quality of upper secondary schools, teacher training colleges, Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs), and demand-driven Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) courses to supply the demand for the higher-level skills and competencies relevant to labor market...

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Models of growth and distribution for Brazil

Taylor, Lance (contributor) - 1980

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Education Quality and Economic Growth

2007

This book aims to contribute to the World Bank's education agenda by communicating research findings on the impact of education quality on economic growth. Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann show that indeed the quality of education, rather than mere access to education, is what impacts economic...

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In search of the missing resource curse

Lederman, Daniel - 2008

"The debate over the curse of natural resources has haunted developing countries for decades if not centuries. A review of existing empirical evidence suggests that the curse remains elusive. The fragile negative effect of natural resources on economic growth might be due to international...

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Testing genuine saving

Hamilton, Kirk - 2005

"The World Bank has been publishing estimates of adjusted net or "genuine" saving since 1999. This measure of saving treats depletion of natural resources as a type of economic depreciation. Hamilton uses recent theoretical results relating growth in saving to growth in future consumption to...

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