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Informality, Harassment, and Corruption : Evidence from Informal Enterprise Data from Harare, Zimbabwe

Francis, David C. - 2019

New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses …

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Zimbabwe's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Pushak, Nataliya - 2017

less than half a percentage point to Zimbabwe's improved per capita growth performance in recent years. Raising the country …. Zimbabwe made significant progress in infrastructure in its early period as an independent state, building a national … political turmoil in the late 1990s. Zimbabwe now faces a number of important infrastructure challenges, the most pressing of …

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Income Diversification in Zimbabwe : Welfare Implications from Urban and Rural Areas

Ersado, Lire - 2016

diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national …

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Reforming Village-Level Governance Via Horizontal Pressure : Evidence from an Experiment in Zimbabwe

Baldwin, Kate - 2017

effectively. The study analyzes an experimental intervention in Zimbabwe intended to reduce abuse of power by village heads …

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What Do Teachers Know and Do? Does it Matter? Evidence from Primary Schools in Africa

Bold, Tessa - 2017

School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they complete their primary education lacking even basic reading,...

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The Economic Case for Education in Vietnam

Patrinos, Harry A. - 2018

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 schooling are 10 percent overall. The returns to primary...

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Combining Mentoring Programs with Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls in Liberia : Baseline Report

Hallman, Kelly - 2017

the UNICEF Violence against Children Surveys (VACS) in Swaziland, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe. As the VACS reporting is …

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Employer Voices, Employer Demands, and Implications for Public Skills Development Policy Connecting the Labor and Education Sectors

Cunningham, Wendy - 2017

Educators believe that they are adequately preparing youth for the labor market while at the same time employers lament the students' lack of skills. A possible source of the mismatch in perceptions is that employers and educators have different understandings of the types of skills valued in...

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Why Do Countries Participate in International Large-Scale Assessments? The Case of PISA

Lockheed, Marlaine - 2017

The number of countries that regularly participate in international large-scale assessments has increased sharply over the past 15 years, with the share of countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment growing from one-fifth of countries in 2000 to over one-third...

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Dropout in Upper Secondary Education in Mexico : Patterns, Consequences and Possible Causes

Kattan, Raja Bentaouet - 2017

This study examines the causes and effects of low enrollment and high dropout rates at the upper secondary level in Mexico, where upper secondary completion rates are well below those of other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries and the regional average. Through a...

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