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This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …
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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. …
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The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites due to globalization. In the last century, the main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should...
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The formerly socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have experienced a remarkable demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility...
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The informal sector makes up an overwhelming share of both gross domestic product and total employment in Africa. In this paper, we lay out some of the basic characteristics of the informal sector in sub-Saharan Africa, relevant institutions, and development issues. Proposed policy approaches...
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This paper examines the patterns and trends in inter-state migration across Indian states and observes that migration is affected by demographic profile as well as the fiscal profile of states. Econometric estimation suggests that level of vertical federal transfers and its horizontal...
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The East Asian countries are currently experiencing declining fertility rates and aging of their populations. The demographic transition is beginning to affect various societal functions, and increasing international migrants are becoming one of the responses to the transition, despite the...
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growth: tourism, horticulture and information technology-enabled services. Sector-specific constraints are identified …
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The South African services sector is large and growing. This coupled with declining employment shares in manufacturing … patterns in services reveal a segmentation that is characterized by high-productivity, high-wage services, low …-productivity, low-wage services, and government services. There has been sustained growth in services exports in the post-1994 period …
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Despite Tanzania's rapid recent growth, the vast majority of employment creation has been in informal services. This … paper addresses the role that different subsectors of formal and informal services have played in Tanzania's growth. It … finds that subsectors such as trade services contribute significantly to employment despite their relatively low …
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