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Does foreign aid in education foster gender equality in developing countries?

Maiga, Eugenie W.H. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries …

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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi: A micro-simulation

Nanivazo, Malokele - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

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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Youth in Tanzania.s urbanizing mining settlements: Prospecting a mineralized future

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

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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Redistribution without Structural Change in Ecuador: Rising and Falling Income Inequality in the 1990s and 2000s

Ponce, Juan; Vos, Rob - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a .new leftist. government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly...

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The risks to education systems from design mismatch and global isomorphism: Concepts, with examples from India

Pritchett, Lant - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

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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Did Trade Openness Affect Income Distribution in Latin America? Evidence for the years 1980.2010

Szekely, Miguel; Samano, Claudia - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

obstacle to improvements in income distribution triggered by other factors such as greater education levels across the …

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Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America

Cruces, Guillermo; Gasparini, Leonardo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage … 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

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The Dynamics of Inequality Change in a Highly Dualistic Economy: Honduras, 1991.2007

Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barria, Carlos - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...

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Impact of sectoral allocation of foreign aid on gender equity and human development

Pickbourn, Lynda; Ndikumana, Leonce - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

are still lagging behind in important human development goals such as education, health, nutrition and access to clean …

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Class size versus class composition: What matters for learning in East Africa?

Jones, Sam - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

Raising schooling quality in low-income countries is a pressing challenge. Substantial research has considered the impact of cutting class sizes on skills acquisition. Considerably less attention has been given to the extent to which peer effects, which r

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