This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

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 … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …

Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic and …

education programmes in emerging democracies? After more than a decade of evaluations of civic education programmes, it is a … the late 1990s, and summarize their most important findings and lessons learned. It will be shown that civic education … education is not being realized in practice. I conclude with a discussion of current developments in the field, as a significant …

Education began to be included as a component of foreign assistance in the early 1960s as it is a principal ingredient … education aid, examines their effectiveness, discusses major problems in implementing educational programmes and suggests ways … to improve aid in education. -- education ; foreign aid ; effectiveness ; multilateral ; bilateral ; ODA …