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Quality education and the efficiency of public expenditure : a cross-country comparative analysis
Miningou, Elise Wendlassida - 2019
general. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficiency with which public education spending is translated into … countries are wasted because of inefficiencies. Although efficiency greatly varies across countries, low-income countries are … overall facing a double issue of low levels of education expenditure and weak efficiency of public expenditure on education …
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Investing in human capital : what can we learn from the World Bank's portfolio data?
Gatti, Roberta; Mohpal, Aakash - 2019
This paper compiles project-level data from the World Bank's lending history to describe patterns and the composition of its portfolio. The paper focuses particularly on the effect of countries' transition from International Development Association to International Bank for Reconstruction and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004776
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Neighborhood Effects in Integrated Social Policies
Bobba, Matteo - 2017
context of a conditional cash transfer program in rural Mexico. These effects are identified using exogenous variations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246224
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Geopolitics, aid, and growth : the impact of UN Security Council membership on the effectiveness of aid
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2016
The paper investigates the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, the paper tests whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the...
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Built to Last : sustainability of early childhood education services in rural Indonesia
Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil; Kinnell, Angela; Maika, Amelia; … - 2019
This paper studies the sustainability of early childhood education centers established under a large-scale, donor-funded project in rural Indonesia. Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data shows that 86 percent of the centers continued to provide preschool services three years after...
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The targeting benefit of conditional cash transfers
Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William - 2020
the price effect of a CCT. These elasticities are estimated for a large CCT program in rural Mexico, Progresa, using …
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The social lives of married women : peer effects in female autonomy and investments in children
Kandpal, Eeshani; Baylis, Kathy - 2019
In patriarchal societies, sticky norms affect married women's social circles, their autonomy, and the outcomes of intra-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends, and over 80 percent do not have any...
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Human capital and macro-economic development : a review of the evidence
Rossi, Federico - 2018
This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function, human capital might increase output per capita by directly entering in the production process, incentivising the accumulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002419
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A socioeconomic disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
D'Souza, Ritika; Gatti, Roberta; Kraay, Aart - 2019
This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital disaggregated by quintiles of socioeconomic status (SES) for a sample 51 mostly low- and middle-income countries. The index measures the expected future human capital of children born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121130
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Malaysia's economic growth and transition to high income : an application of the World Bank Long Term Growth Model (LTGM)
Devadas, Sharmila; Guzman, Jorge; Kim, Young Eun; … - 2020
This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
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