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América Latina.Abstract: Chile shows one of the largest achievement gaps between high and low income students. Enseña Chile …, the first adaptation in Latin America of the successful Teach for America model, aims at eliminating educational …
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Education in Latin America: Lessons from the Community College Experience." The seminar was sponsored by the Inter … attended by participants from 16 Latin American countries and the United States, and included small group discussions of the … community college model as well as several short-term post secondary career initiatives being implemented in Latin America. This …
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Education in Latin America: Lessons from the Community College Experience." The seminar was sponsored by the Inter … attended by participants from 16 Latin American countries and the United States, and included small group discussions of the … community college model as well as several short-term post secondary career initiatives being implemented in Latin America. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772469
terminology demand a common and harmonic language among the authorities in charge of civil registration, identification, biometric … systems, and vital statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean. This Glossary of Civil Registration and Identification has …
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teachers transmit positive attitudes to their students. …
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This study develops a framework to investigate the optimal allocation of a country's fiscal resources to help equalize opportunities for human development. The author argues that the proper role for policy is the pursuit of equality of opportunities as opposed to equality of outcomes. Because...
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This study develops a framework to investigate the optimal allocation of a country's fiscal resources to help equalize opportunities for human development. The author argues that the proper role for policy is the pursuit of equality of opportunities as opposed to equality of outcomes. Because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654330
This paper joins in the debate on the size of the middle class in Latin America, providing an analysis of its structure … and characteristics. Using several measurements, it finds that 40-60 percent of Latin American households are middle class …
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This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of fiscal policy, in particular the accumulation of government debt. The authors examine three possible determinants of fiscal balances: opportunistic behavior by policymakers, heterogeneous fiscal preferences of either voters or...
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Several European countries face challenges reminiscent of those faced by the emerging economies of Latin America. The … Latin American audiences. For those Euro-zone countries that built up large Euro-denominated external liabilities, Latin … of the crisis given cooperative mechanisms that were absent in Latin America, particularly the availability of massive …
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