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Bourguignon, François; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - 2013

more effectiveness and efficiency in delivering development assistance. This paper seeks to clarify some of the arguments …

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Determinants of foreign aid in family planning : how relevant is the Mexico City Policy?

Asiedu, Elizabeth; Nanivazo, Malokele; Nkusu, Mwanza - 2013

The Mexico City Policy (MCP) prohibits the United States Agency for International Development from providing aid to …

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Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana

Otoo, Isaac; Danquah, Michael - 2021

In this paper, we estimate the efficiency of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana, and … investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … MMDAs' internally generated funds as a share of their total revenue has a positive influence on the efficiency of MMDAs …

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Public and private expenditures on human capital accumulation in India

Ghate, Chetan; Glomm, Gerhard; Stone, John T. - 2015

We study a model of human capital driven growth, where the parent's human capital serves as a productive input in the child's human capital production only when that of the former exceeds a minimum level required to intellectually contribute to the child's learning. Private and public...

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Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation : evidence from the manufacturing sector in India

Baranwal, Gunja - 2016

This paper is related to the literature on the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the labour market of host countries. Labour market literature has focused on the demand side of FDI; that is, increasing wage inequality by demanding more skilled workers or just increasing the overall...

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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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Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India

Weide, Roy van der; Vigh, Melinda - 2018

Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are influenced less by the individual’s parents and...

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In praise of snapshots

Kanbur, Ravi - 2019

The conventional justification for moving from income distribution to intergenerational mobility analysis is that the movie encompasses the snapshot and is normatively superior as the basis for assessing policy. Such a perspective underpins many an argument for shifting the focus from income...

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Private beats public : a flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchers

Brandt, Kasper - 2018

This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...

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Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling : new evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael; Barimah, Alfred; … - 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to post one of the highest gender gaps in educational outcomes in the world. Gender gaps in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys and girls. In this paper, we interrogate this issue using...

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