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The great Proletarian Cultural revolution, disruptions to education and returns to schooling in urban China
Giles, John (contributor); Park, Albert (contributor);  … - 2008
"In determining whether a country's higher education system should be expanded, it is important for policymakers first to determine the extent to which high private returns to post-secondary education are an indication of the scarcity of graduates instead of the high unobserved ability of...
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Income diversification in Zimbabwe : welfare implications from urban and rural areas
Ersado, Lire - 2006
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Financial services for the urban poor : South Africa's E plan
Paulson, Jo Ann; McAndrews, James Joseph - 1998
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A global urban risk index
Brecht, Henrike; Deichmann, Uwe; Wang, Hyoung Gun - 2013
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Expanding social insurance coverage in urban China
Giles, John; Wang, Dewen; Park, Albert - 2013
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Cities, slums, and early child growth : empirical evidence from Bangladesh
Raju, Dhushyanth; Kim, Kyoung Yang; Quynh Thu Nguyen; … - 2017
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Migration and urbanization in post-apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2019
Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization …, the authors study the effect of migration on urbanization in South Africa. While they find that on average there is no … populations. Overall, the evidence suggests that exogenous migration shocks can foster urbanization in the medium run …
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Stocktaking of global forced displacement data
Sarzin, Zara - 2017
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Estimating small area population density using survey data and satellite imagery : an application to Sri Lanka
Engstrom, Ryan; Newhouse, David Locke; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2019
Country-level census data are typically collected once every 10 years. However, conflict, migration, urbanization, and …
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A novel approach to the automatic designation of predefined census enumeration areas and population sampling frames : a case study in Somalia
Qader, Sarchil; Lefebvre, Veronique; Ninneman, Amy; … - 2019
Enumeration areas are the operational geographic units for the collection, dissemination, and analysis of census data and are often used as a national sampling frame for various types of surveys. Traditionally, enumeration areas are created by manually digitizing small geographic units on...
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