local politicians spanning a city in the Philippines. We then collect survey data on formal network connections, electoral …

, poverty statistics in the Philippines have recently become not only as the means of identifying the most deprived regions or … archipelagic country like the Philippines, will become increasingly characterized by added poverty and vulnerability. -- urban …

formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … entrepreneurship in fragile state. -- entrepreneurship ; development ; fragile states ; institutions ; business ; environment …This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the …

environment, such as social capital, access to resources and infrastructure, as well as the presence of a minimal institutional … effect of the conflict on entrepreneurship is very small. The results on the control variables suggest that (i) the … generation of entrepreneurship has seen conflict and instability for a whole life,( ii) a small business is a mean of surviving …

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 …