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Few would contest that teachers are a very important determinant of whether students learn in school and how to improve teacher performance has been the focus of much policy debate in rich and poor countries. This paper examines how incentives, both pecuniary and non-pecuniary, correlate with...
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of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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question by combining a nonexperimental impact evaluation of a large-scale rural roads project in Vietnam with qualitative data …
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nearly 1500 rural piped water customers in Vietnam reveal evidence of habit formation. A novel test based on the Euler …
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Vietnam's power sector has developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer among developing countries. This … success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also … long-term sustainability without jeopardizing security of supply for the fast-growing economy. Vietnam's 2004 Electricity …
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suitable price data. In this paper, data from Vietnam are used to test this method against benchmarks provided by multilateral …
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adulthood, using a novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction in the United States during the Vietnam War. The paper … add to the evidence on the lasting consequences of stress, and indicate that induction risk during the Vietnam War may, in …
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(Bulgaria, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Tanzania, and Vietnam) and proposes a new methodology for collecting cross …
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development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …
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Education is central to the development of human capital. Vietnam has made significant progress. This paper reviews … existing research on the returns to education and makes the case for investment in schooling. In Vietnam, the returns to …
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