This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …

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 …

-protected import substitution industrialization strategy of 1960-83 to an outward liberalized strategy during 1984-2000, and since 2001 …

, and tubing) would promote industrialization and enhance value-add. In practice, however, unit prices have only been …

This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia's mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic … diversification. It assesses productive linkages and manufacturing competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization and … productivity and export competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization, that era was successful in terms of domestic …

first part, we describe crucial dimensions of industrialization in the region - its extent, its historical trajectory, and …