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Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
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Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors … identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender … stimulus to growth in a number of SSA countries underscores the importance of assessing the gender effect of macroeconomic …
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In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to higher levels of education (there are 30 times as...
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are still lagging behind in important human development goals such as education, health, nutrition and access to clean … drinking water and improved sanitation. Moreover, gender equity remains a major challenge in most countries. In this paper, we … its sectoral allocation have an impact on human development outcomes and gender equity. We find that the impact of aid on …
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looking forward to a much better future - in terms of both growth and human development - than was deemed possible at the time …
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outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …
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Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …
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, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the … way; the last three decades have witnessed one of the best performances in the world in terms of both economic growth and … poverty reduction. People's living standards have improved significantly, and the country's socio-economic achievements are …
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Health System (particularly the National Health Service), and the reduction of poverty and economic and social inequality. …The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the …
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relationship between inequality and growth, the role of agriculture in the development process, the relationships between ethnicity …
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