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The return to firm investment in human capital
Carneiro, Pedro - 2006
and 24 percent for those providing training. Formal job training is a good investment for many firms and the economy …
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Simulating the poverty impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies
Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005
"Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522412
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The poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies : a review of modeling approaches
Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005
"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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522518
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Do global trade distortions still harm developing country farmers ?
Anderson, Kym - 2006
"The authors estimate the impact of global merchandise trade distortions and services regulations on agricultural value added in various countries. Using the latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the GTAP-AGR model of the global economy, their results suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522159
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Sending farmers back to school : the impact of farmer field schools in Indonesia
Feder, Gershon - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523413
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521914
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Indonesia - Investing in Indonesia's Education at the District Level : An Analysis of Regional Public Expenditure and Financial Management
World Bank - 2012
Since the implementation of decentralization in 2001, district governments have been getting increased responsibilities to provide education services to the citizen. Basic and secondary education management authority has been fully transferred from the central to the provincial and district...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550791
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Vocational schooling, labor market outcomes, and college entry
Chen, Dandan - 2009
in terms of employment opportunities, labor market earnings, and access to tertiary education in Indonesia. With data … from a panel of two waves of the Indonesia Family Life Survey in 1997 and 2000, the paper tracks a cohort of high school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394108
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Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and child health
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2008
"Do aggregate economic shocks, such as those caused by macroeconomic crises or droughts, reduce child human capital? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they may transmit poverty from one generation to the next. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521058
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Preparing for the Next Crisis : Establishing a Vulnerability and Shock Monitoring and Response System in Indonesia
World Bank - 2013
Indonesia piloted a Crisis Monitoring and Response System (CMRS). The CMRS experience provides valuable inputs for the design of … a long-term Vulnerability and Shock Monitoring and Response System (VSMRS). The CMRS covered the whole country, which … inputs to a discussion within Government of Indonesia agencies, and between the Government and other interested parties (such …
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