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Has the level of achieved education affected the income of Czech households

Birčiaková, Naďa; Antošová, Veronika; Stávková, Jana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

education coefficient. Households at risk of poverty are also taken into account. Income inequality is measured by way of the … coefficient, as well as between education and households at risk of poverty. The biggest share is represented by households where … negative dependence between the education level and number of households at risk of poverty. Within analyzed period of five …

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The Child Labour in Developing Countries – A Challenge to Millennium Development Goals

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and … children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is …

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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...

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Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...

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Global Insecurity,Transparency and Sustainable Development:African Challenges

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Notably, the 20th century was dominated by the legacy of devastating global wars, colonial struggles, and ideological conflicts as well as effort s to establish international systems that would foster global peace and prosperity. Yet, insecurity and corruption not only remain, they have become...

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A Quick and Dirty Estimate of Measurement Error in Household Survey Consumption Expenditures: Application to Indonesian Data.

Pritchett, Lant; Sumarto, Sudarno; Suryahadi, Asep - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Measurement error is an enormous problem in empirical work. In some types of analysis, it is often ignored for various reasons. In some others, however, it cannot be ignored because it affects the results of analysis significantly. We use a simple procedure to estimate the extent of measurement...

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Access to Finance and Its Association with Development in Rural India

Das, Khanindra Ch. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

the access to finance from institutional sources and development outcomes such as poverty, educational attainment and …

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Desigualdade salarial e educacao na Lima Metropolitana 1970-1984

Rodriguez, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991

It assesses the impact of the expansion of educational levels on the distribution of wages between 1970 and 1984 in Metropolitan Lima in Peru. For this purpose it uses a dynamic decomposition of the second Theil's concentration index using data from household surveys. The results suggest that...

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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Who Benefits from Increased Access to Public Services at the Local Level? A Marginal Benefit Incidence Analysis for Education and Basic Infrastructure

Ajwad, Mohamed Ishan; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

Do poor people benefit more or less than the nonpoor from an expansion in access to public services? And do those benefits depend on the existing level of access? Answering these questions is essential to strategies for empowering (or “investing in”) poor people, but the lack of panel data...

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