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the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly … positive effects with increasing magnitude among Best Performers (0.10th to 0.90th quantile) and (2) education spending has …
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the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … Hopefuls to Best Performers, while the impact of education is increasingly positive. As a main policy implication, it would … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …
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This study examines the importance of inclusive human development in promoting education quality in a panel of forty … development improves education quality. This result should be understood in the light of the fact that the adopted education … reflects diminishing education quality. From QR, with the exception of the highest quantile, the tendency of inclusive human …
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, through education especially at higher levels, will allow human capital to evolve dynamically and increase long-run growth in … Nigeria. This tendency engenders multiplier effects in stimulating sustainable development given that education-driven growth … growth. Therefore, investments in education have been identified as a vital channel for building human capital and achieving …
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This paper examines the governance-"education quality" nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the … following findings are established. First, from the OLS, governance variables are negatively correlated with poor education … education quality in the lowest quantile of poor education quality. With the exception of corruption-control, the other …
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The success of inclusive development strategies in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda depends substantially on the adoption of common inclusive development policies among nations. Building on the relevance of a knowledge economy in the post-2015 development agenda, this study models...
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We explore a newly available dataset on quality of growth to investigate the effect of institutions on growth quality in 93 developing countries for the period 1990 to 2011. Quality of institutions is measured in term of political risk. The empirical evidence is based on: (i) Ordinary Least...
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This study complements existing literature on the relationship between HIV/AIDS and human capital by introducing previously unexplored indicators as well as more robust empirical strategies. The overarching purpose is to assess whether previous findings on the relationship withstand empirical...
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The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...
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Abstract Purpose - How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy, corruption-control, press-freedom, government effectiveness, human development, foreign-aid, physical security, trade openness and financial liberalization play-out in the...
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