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exercise that focusses on five sectors - education, health, roads, water, and electricity infrastructure. Achieving the …'s success story, highlighting crucial policies in education and electricity sectors. It undertakes a forward-looking costing …
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This paper reports the results of an analysis of changes in income inequality, and in its determinants, in urban China … during the period from 1988 to 1995. Second, age was the major factor in inequality in 1988, while education became the … important factor in 1995. Third, education significantly contributed to increasing inequality during the period. Fourth, the …
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achieve all MDGs, the country needs to increase government spending on MDG-relevant sectors (education, health, water and …
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bringing under-represented groups more effectively into the labour market. Raising skills and lowering inequities in education …
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achieve all MDGs, the country needs to increase government spending on MDG-relevant sectors (education, health, water and …
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fiscal space of health and education sectors in the region …
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This article posits the issue of American poverty and governments' inability to significantly alter this adverse social condition. While data suggests there has been a substantial and measurable improvement in poverty rates over the past four decades, the fact remains, poverty is an inherent and...
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: first, using hierarchical clustering, we partition countries based on their similarity in health and economic outcomes … public testing and additional fiscal stimulus in non-health could help reduce excess mortality, which might lead to lower …
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Pandemics harm the economy. Governments use social distancing and other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) to tackle the pandemic. Recent data from the 1918 influenza pandemic ('Spanish Flu') suggest that a strict NPI policy on average not only reduces mortality but is also helpful to...
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message is that there is no "health vs. economics" dichotomy. Rather, some degree of lockdown is typically optimal in crisis … like this, balancing its economic costs against its health benefits. Moreover, the optimal lockdown is dynamic, changes …
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