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Leaving no one behind in Ghana through university education : interrogating spatial, gender and class inequalities
Ayelazuno, Jasper Abembia; Aziabah, Maxwell A. - 2021
The number of higher education institutions in Ghana has soared in the last three decades and university enrolments have shot up in tandem. Yet the number of Ghanaians living in poverty is higher than ever before, and social inequality is on the rise. Against this backdrop, this paper critically...
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Raising college access and completion : how much can free college help?
Ferreira, María M.; Garriga, Carlos; Martin, Juan David; … - 2020
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The value of U.S. college education in global labor markets : experimental evidence from China
Chen, Mingyu - 2019
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Gendered teacher feedback, students' math performance and enrollment outcomes : a text mining approach
Charousset, Pauline; Monnet, Marion - 2022
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Community-based adaptation: lessons from the development marketplace 2009 on adaptation to climate change
Heltberg, Rasmus; Gitay, Habiba; Prabhu, Radhika - 2010
The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the … Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all …-based adaptation should: exploit its strong local grounding and synergies with development; help connect local initiatives to higher …
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Development, climate change adaptation, and maladaptation : some econometric evidence
Bosello, Francesco; Dasgupta, Shouro - 2015
This paper examines the determinants of climate related disasters and attempts to estimate the presence of adaptive capacity in terms of per capita income and population density elasticities. We find evidence of adaptive capacity in a “weak” form both in terms of income and population...
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Labour market adjustment during 2008 - 2013 in Latvia : firm level evidence
Fadejeva, Ludmila; Krasnopjorovos, Ol̨egs - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400715
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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
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Reimagining India's urban future : a framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development in India
Tewari, Meenu; Aziz, Zeba; Cook, Mitchell; Goldar, Amrita; … - 2015
India is at the cusp of a major urban transition. In less than twenty years, India's urban population is expected to nearly double from 377 million today to over 600 million. Indian cities already contribute an estimated two-thirds of India's GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by...
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Adaptation and the Easterlin Paradox
Clark, Andrew E. - 2015
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