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This Joint Advisory Note on the Democratic Republic of the Congo discusses economic growth and employment-creating sectors. The agriculture and mining sectors are projected to continue their expansion, while simultaneously raising labor productivity and freeing up labor. The urban population is...
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This paper provides a meta-analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship … conclusions result from this meta-analysis. First, we find that the impact of education on selection into entrepreneurship is … neither positive nor negative. Second, the effect of education on performance is positive and significant. Third, the return …
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This paper estimates the health returns to schooling, using a twin design. For this purpose, I use data on monozygotic … measured through self-reported health, chronic conditions, and exercise behavior, but that additional schooling does not lead …
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In this paper we analyse the decision to continue in post-compulsory education in Italy. Using data from the Survey of … of investigating factors which affect the decision to continue in post-compulsory education. The estimates of the … econometric model show that the individual with the smallest probability to continue in education has one or more of the following …
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education, the time and resources spent on schooling becomes worthwhile. This paper will review the extent to which critical …One of the most critical challenges Pakistan faces today is the need to improve and expand its education system. With … moment to build a better system. Not only does the purpose of education have to be defined beyond what has been left over …
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and ways that the broad welfare and education systems might better support them. This article reports on a qualitative …
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Mali’s territorial integrity is threatened, questioning its internal capacity to face challenges and especially to ensure the physical safety of goods and individuals. The government is committed to implement all measures to overcome this situation. More specifically, it will increase...
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the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to …
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This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise income by an average of 5.5 percent, which is close to the average … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
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We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …
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