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Aiding education? : the effect of international aid on local educational enrolment in Nigeria

Haer, Roos van der; Østby, Gudrun - 2023

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 …

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India's development cooperation in Africa : the case of "Solar Mamas" who bring light

Vaidyanathan, Veda - 2023

This paper examines multiple facets of New Delhi's development cooperation with countries in Africa and argues that grassroots organizations in India that find innovative, low-cost technological solutions to developmental challenges can help governments and multilateral agencies craft inclusive,...

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On the fertility transition in Africa : income, child mortality, or education?

Mveyange, Anthony - 2015

present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in …

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Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining settlements : prospecting a mineralized future

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2014

Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a "mining take-off". Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-intensive artisanal mining, which, at...

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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? : evidence from a top university in Brazil

Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2021

students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …

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Choices for spending government revenue : new African oil, gas, and mining economies

Witter, Sophie; Jakobsen, Maja - 2017

health and education by new oil and gas revenues, and what other uses of those revenues are likely to arise. The paper argues …

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...

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The gender gap, education, and the life cycle profile in the Brazilian formal labour market

Machado, Cecilia; Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Pinho Neto, … - 2018

education levels. We find that the gender earnings gap increases with the educational level. For instance, at 40 years of age …, women without high school degrees earned on average 28.8 per cent less than men with the same level of education and for the …

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Does sorting matter for learning inequality? : evidence from East Africa

Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jones, Sam - 2019

could substantially reduce inequalities in education. …

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The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market : evidence from a public federal university in Brazil

Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2020

greater when considering students from affirmative action programmes and for courses in the field of technology. But the …

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