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Education has long been recognized as a central element in economics development. In Eritrea, Church education played a … the Muslim communities of the Eritrean Society. Since Independence, education is well organized in the country. Eritrea … has invested heavily in education and has embarked on a wide-ranging program. The World Bank, Eritrea has also made …
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This paper attempts to evaluate the status of education in the current districts of Punjab and compare this with the … status of education attainment in 1998. The tool used for assessment and comparison is the Education Index (EI) for the … districts of Punjab. The Education Index is a composite index which is calculated using enrollment at different education levels …
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Transition economies have an initial condition of high human capital relative to GDP per capita. But they will not necessarily realize their latent high growth potential. In the model, at a good equilibrium a large number of children of well-educated parents take advantage of their family...
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the role of education in determining welfare and poverty and its reciprocal, the role of welfare and other aspects of … from the Ghana Living Standards Surveys. The results suggest that education levels play an important role in determining … household welfare and that higher levels of education have relatively larger and increasing benefits. Improvements are observed …
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to Indonesia and education. …
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The impact of competition on school performance is likely to depend on whether parents are informed about schools' effectiveness or value added (which may or may not be correlated with absolute measures of their quality), and on whether this information influences their school choices, thereby...
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health, education and the existence of central authorities. The conclusions focus on the necessity of infusing funds …
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Most developing and underdeveloped countries beside Sudan suffer from the low levels of income in addition to the low savings that are result from the lack of sophisticated savings channels. Hence, the investment depends on the individual's abilities on self savings, where the investment is...
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Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the evolution of the financing regimes. The...
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Following Solow's (2001) recent advice, this paper takes productivity as the left-hand-side variable and offers a cross-country analysis of its determinants. The analysis follows the two-stage methodology, the first of which is devoted to obtaining productivity estimates, and the second stage is...
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