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Impact of Migration on Economic and Social Development : A Review of Evidence and Emerging Issues
Ratha, Dilip - 2017
This paper provides a review of the literature on the development impact of migration and remittances on origin … development implications for both sending and receiving countries. For a sending country, migration and the resulting remittances … flows, leveraging remittances for improving access to finance of recipient households and countries, improving recruitment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976168
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Efficiency of Public Spending in Education, Health, and Infrastructure : An International Benchmarking Exercise
Herrera, Santiago - 2018
Governments of developing countries typically spend between 20 and 30 percent of gross domestic product. Hence, small changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on aggregate productivity growth and gross domestic product levels. Therefore, measuring efficiency and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911270
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The Heterogeneous Effect of Information on Student Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mexico
Avitabile, Ciro - 2017
A randomized control trial was conducted to study whether providing 10th grade students with information about the returns to upper secondary and tertiary education, and a source of financial aid for tertiary education, can contribute to improve student performance. The study finds that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970945
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Public Spending and Outcomes : Does Governance Matter?
Rajkumar, Andrew Sunil - 2017
The authors examine the role of governance-measured by level of corruption and quality of bureaucracy-and ask how it affects the relationship between public spending and outcomes. Their main innovation is to see if differences in efficacy of public spending can be explained by quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971163
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Mass Media and Public Services : The Effects of Radio Access on Public Education in Benin
Keefer, Philip - 2017
Does radio access improve public service provision? And if so, does it do so by increasing government accountability to citizens, or by persuading households to take advantage of publicly-provided services? Prior research has argued that citizens with greater access to mass media receive greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976167
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Quality Education and the Efficiency of Public Expenditure : A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Miningou, Elise Wendlassida - 2019
Improving access to quality education has been the backbone of several development strategies around the world and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857923
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The Impacts of Safety Nets in Africa : What are We Learning?
Ralston, Laura - 2018
Safety nets in Africa are a popular policy instrument to address the widespread chronic poverty and encourage human capital investments in the education and health of children. Although there have been considerable analyses on the impacts of safety nets globally, particularly in Latin America,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931954
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Investing in Indonesia's Education : Allocation, Equity, and Efficiency of Public Expenditures
Arze del Granado, F. Javier - 2016
What are the current trends and main characteristics of public education spending in Indonesia? Is education spending insufficient? Are expenditures in education efficient and equitable? This study reports the first account of Indonesia's aggregated (national and sub-national) spending on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747633
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Government Expenditures on Education, Health, and Infrastructure : A Naive Look at Levels, Outcomes, and Efficiency
Estache, Antonio - 2016
All interested parties seem to agree that it is important to be able to monitor public sector performance at the sectoral level, but most current work based on multi-country databases does not lend itself to country-specific conclusions. This is due to a large extent to major data limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747756
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Financial Constraints and Girls'Secondary Education : Evidence from School Fee Elimination in the Gambia
Blimpo, Moussa - 2017
This study analyzes the impact of large-scale fee elimination for secondary school girls in The Gambia on the quantity, composition, and achievement of students. The gradual rollout of the program across geographic regions provides identifying variation in the policy. The program increased the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967121