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' education had no environmental impact on children's schooling. Interestingly, mothers' education matters more for girls, while … fathers' education is more important for boys. Finally, an important policy recommendation in the African context emerges from … larger effort in the group to understand the determinants of education and its intergenerational transmission"--World Bank …
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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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' emoluments account for most of the spending on basic education (Bold et al., 2017). However, in many countries in the region … public education expenditure, with significant shares of finance being spent to maintain teachers in comparatively …
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School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … helping children enroll on time, complete their education, and realize their cognitive potential. Achieving these goals …
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