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"Anderson, Damania, and Jackson develop a common-agency lobbying model to help understand why North America and the European Union have adopted such different policies toward genetically modified (GM) food. Their results show that when firms (in this case farmers) lobby policymakers to influence...
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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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The purpose of this report is to provide an analysis of the education sector that enables a shared understanding among … stakeholders, and thus lays a foundation for the preparation of an Education Sector Plan. With this objective in mind, the study … outlines the current status of the education sector and highlights issues that policy makers need to address to move the sector …
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Without rapid and substantial improvements in education access and quality, broader poverty reduction efforts in Sub … intractable problems of education in Sub-Saharan Africa is perhaps greater than at any time in the past two decades. Economic … growth has resumed in many countries; the political commitment to education development is strong; and new democracies have …
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