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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 …
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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 …
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health and education by new oil and gas revenues, and what other uses of those revenues are likely to arise. The paper argues …
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growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence … from recent in-depth country work on the impact of government policies and service provision in health and basic education … address these coordination disincentives. -- aid effectiveness ; health ; education ; coordination ; political economy …
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returns to education and the relocation of workers towards less-routine occupations have contributed to the inequality …
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Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the countryspecific routine task...
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comparative static computable general equilibrium framework is employed to explore first- and second-order impacts of equipment …
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controlling for age/experience, race and education, jobs which involve automated or routine tasks and those without any face …
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The aim of this paper is to identify the scope and patterns of the structural transformation as evidenced by changes in occupations and their task content, and their impact on employment, earnings and income distribution in Argentina during the new millennium. Results show that the changes in...
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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 …
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