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Education has emerged as an essential component of the transition to a market economy in Central and Eastern Europe. Although the countries of the region inherited broadly accessible education systems, the legacies of central planning have constrained the systems from fully adjusting to market...
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Cette etude presente les principaux resultats de la recherche surles facteurs qui entravent la scolarisation des filles en Afrique subsaharienne. Ces facteurs se classent en trois categories: les facteurs politiquess et institutionnels, les facteurs relatifs a l'environnement scolaire et les...
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As part of the restructuring of the education system since doi moi or Renovation in 1989, the government of Vietnam has implemented several policy changes. These include transforming some public institutions into private ones, promoting the establishment of "people's" and community educational...
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Countries the world over have launched ambitious privatization programs to improve the efficiency of state enterprises, free up resources for social services, and mobilize capital for expansion and modernization. A universal concern in this process is the effect privatization has on labor. Many...
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Six years into the transition from planned to market economies in Central and Eastern Europe, high unemployment rates, including a growing proportion of the long-term unemployed, represent a serious challenge to social welfare systems and policymakers. This paper analyzes labor market...
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Rapid urbanization in Ghana over the past three decades has coincided with rapid GDP growth. This has helped to create … Ghanaians. Ghana’s urban transformation has been momentous, but it is not unique: a similar process has characterized other … countries at similar levels of development. Ghana’s key challenge now is to ensure that urbanization continues to complement …
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-country pilot carried out in Ghana, Honduras, Kenya, and Nigeria. Section 1 of the paper provides the general background within …
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