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Following decades of sustained economic growth during which Uganda made dramatic progresstowards poverty reduction, the country has recently experienced a period of economic growthslow down. To return to higher rates of economic growth and poverty reduction, the Government mustaddress...
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Gender equality is a core development objective, and it is also a smart development policy. Gender equality is also a … key pathway to ensure lasting poverty reduction and shared prosperity. Identifying the main gender gaps a country faces … required. It focuses on three areas that are critical for gender-equal access to opportunities, namely endowments such as …
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Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right, and it is also smart economics. Greater gender … Bank 2011).For example, gender gaps in the Romanian labor market may be harming aggregate productivity due to inefficient …
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Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right, and it is also a smartdevelopment policy. Gender … equality is also a key pathway to ensure lasting poverty reductionand shared prosperity. Identifying the main gender gaps a … action is required. It focuses on three areas that are criticalfor gender-equal access to opportunities, namely endowments …
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The objective of this ASA was 'to develop policy recommendations for the Russian Federation based on a detailed analysis of the returns to education and identification of feasible pathways for robust growth in Russia's human capital wealth'. The second part of identifying feasible pathways was...
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Human capital is a crucial factor of economic development. As stated in Mongolia's vision 2050, the country has so far relied heavily on its natural resources for development. It puts the human development in the center of its strategy, envisioning that children and youth will be educated at...
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The 2020 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report covers the period from January to December 2019. The addition of Somalia brought the number of the region's International Development Association (IDA)-eligible countries to 39. The overall CPIA score for the region's 39...
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Over the last decade, the Government of the Philippines has embarked on an ambitious education reform program to ensure that all Filipinos have the opportunity to obtain the skills that they need to play a full and productive role in society. The government has backed up these reforms,...
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Providing schools with direct funding to meet their operational needs is the cornerstone of the government's efforts to strengthen school-based management in the Philippines. Over the past five years, funds that the government has provided directly to schools to support their maintenance and...
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In this note, we examine how Cambodian youth's test score performance during lower secondary relates to their success several years later as they transition from schooling to work. Specifically, we explore the association between cognitive skills measured using math and vocabulary test scores...
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