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Projections of regional changes in seasonal surface-air temperature and precipitation for the eastern and western Zambezi River Basin regions are presented. These projections are cast in a probabilistic context based on a numerical hybridization technique
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two key channels of transmission, namely education and trade. Thirty-six sub-Saharan African countries during the period …
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This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education …
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growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries …
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This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on chil
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Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a .mining take-off.. Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-in
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.s primary export-based growth model and the lack of structural economic change do not augur for a more structural decline in …
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The incredibly low levels of learning and the generally dysfunctional public sector schooling systems in many (though not all) developing countries are the result of a capability trap (Pritchett et al. 2010). Two phenomena reinforce persistent failure of
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inequality in education is more likely to affect the aid allocation of donor countries with female leadership in the relevant …
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