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The success of learnerships? Lessons from South Africa.s training and education programme

Rankin, Neil; Roberts, Gareth; Schoer, Volker - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Vocational training programmes, like South Africa.s learnership programme, which combine classroom learning and on-the-job training seem like the type of intervention which can create skills, get young people into jobs quicker, and reduce youth unemployme

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Promoting Education within the Context of a Neo-Patrimonial State : The Case of Nigeria.

Edevbaro, D - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1997

students enrolled in institutions at all levels. In spite of this, education today, like other social sevices, is in deep …

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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia: Further evidence of a subnational .diversity dividend.

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; Nino-Zarazua, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical ev

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Impact of Education on Inequality Across the Wage Distribution Profile in Cameroon : 2005-10

Baye, Francis Menjo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2015

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

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The main obstacles to firms. growth in Senegal: Implications for the long run

Maurel, Mathilde - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Productivity gains are the prime engine of economic growth. This paper uses a rich amount of firms. accounting information from the Single Information Collecting Centre in Senegal over the period 1998-2011. To investigate the two main obstacles to growth,

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Gender inequality, female leadership, and aid allocation: A panel analysis of aid for education

Kleemann, Linda; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

inequality in education is more likely to affect the aid allocation of donor countries with female leadership in the relevant …

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Education from the bottom up: UNICEF.s education programme in Somalia

Williams, James; Cummings, William - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

state collapse. Initially, education and other government services came to a standstill. With the halt of fighting in some …

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Education, skill, and earnings: Further evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles; Turkson, Festus; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

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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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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