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 …

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 …

education in the two emerging economies, with China being decades ahead in improving literacy rates. China's adoption of the New …This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from …'s New Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). The divergent policy focus has led to differential trajectories for elementary …

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

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

I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … study estimation and an interrupted time series research design and find that the Right to Education Act led to a 60 per …

-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education …

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 …