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The Macroeconomic Impact of Scaled-Up Aid : The Case of Niger

Sacerdoti, Emilio - 2009

We develop a simple macroeconomic model that assesses the effects of higher foreign aid on output growth and other macroeconomic variables, including the real exchange rate. The model is easily tractable and requires estimation of only a few basic parameters. It takes into account the impact of...

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Public Education Expenditure and Other Determinants of Private Investment in the Caribbean

Levy, Joaquim Vieira Ferreira - 1994

This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of private investment in the Caribbean region, using data for the … econometric model assessing the impact of education and other variables on the share of private investment in GDP. The empirical … formation. Public investment has a negative effect on private investment, while real interest rates and external debt burdens …

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Explaining ASEAN-3’s investment puzzle : a tale of two sectors

Zhou, Yong Sarah - 2013

The prolonged investment decline in post-Asian crisis emerging Asia, in contrast to the swift recovery of economic … growth, has remained a puzzle. This paper shows that the post-crisis investment recession has been mainly concentrated in the …. Empirical results based on macro and firm-level data from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand (ASEAN-3) support this hypothesis …

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Education and health for inclusiveness

Filmer, Deon; Gatti, Roberta; Rogers, Halsey; … - 2021

We discuss existing shortfalls and inequalities in the accumulation of human capital-knowledge, skills, and health. We analyze their immediate and systemic causes, and assess the scope for public intervention. The broad policy goals should be to improve: the quality, and not just the quantity,...

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Risk, Resources, and Education : Public Versus Private Financing of Higher Education

International Monetary Fund - 1999

This paper develops a public education scheme that takes uncertainty aspects of private educational investments explicitly into account. In the author’s framework, the social merits of public education schemes are related to the lack of markets in which students can insure against educational...

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Human Capital Accumulation and Public Sector Growth

Tanzi, Vito - 1995

The present paper takes a fresh theoretical and empirical look into the relationship between Wagner’s law and economic development. It introduces human capital into a classic two-sector model of unbalanced growth. It shows that, as an economy develops, changes in the relative returns to human...

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Tuition Subsidies in a Model of Economic Growth

Gerson, Philip R. - 1994

This paper examines a two-sector aggregative growth model with human capital and educated unemployment. In the model, a tuition subsidy may lead to a long-run decline in the educated fraction of the population, because it may decrease the long-run per capita stock of physical capital in the...

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Migration and Human Capital Formation : Theory and Evidence From the U.S. High School Movement

Ramcharan, Rodney - 2002

capital investment. The increased enrollments raised the supply of schools, leading to continued schooling investment. Cross …

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Composition of Government Expenditure, Human Capital Accumulation, and Welfare

Matovu, John - 2000

This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to Ugandan data to examine the welfare effects of alternative scenarios of government expenditure and tax financing. Two expenditure types are considered: social spending that affects human capital, and infrastructure expenditures...

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Composition of Government Expenditures and Demand for Education in Developing Countries

Matovu, John - 2002

infrastructure investment …

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