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caused fertility to decline significantly are a hallmark of Tunisia.s development strategy. This paper reviews Tunisia …
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demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now … looks like Western Europe—below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and … increasing out-of-wedlock birthrates, characterize many countries formerly distinguished by replacement-level fertility and early …
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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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