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children’s access to health care services. The study shows that the crisis is projected to lower the real GDP growth rate by 1 …’s school participation rate and their access to health care services. Four alternative policy responses to the crisis are …
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children’s access to health care services. The study shows that the crisis is projected to lower the real GDP growth rate by 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504653
revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … the education system (by private and public education investments) determines the quality of the human capital stock as … consumption and saving. An efficient tax and transfer system being accompanied by an education system financed in public private …
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, three policy interventions were identified: (i) an increase in education spending, (ii) a school fees subsidy and (iii) a …. The results indicate that increased public education spending helps raise school participation and pass rates, thus … increasing the supply and education level of skilled workers, leading to a reduced incidence and depth of both monetary and …
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The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of increased public expenditures in education on school …, poverty reduction and income distribution. These additional expenditures in education are financed either through increased … out the relationship between education spending, school performance, skill level of workers and their choices on the labor …
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, education for all, gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and creation of a global partnership for development. To understand … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is … made in this article to demonstrate how increased education opportunities and increased welfare reduces child labour. …
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This paper uses a static computable general equilibrium model (CGE) linked to a microsimulation model to analyze how the global crisis and some adopted policy responses may have affected the Uruguayan economy. The focus is on the trade channel and foreign capital flows, since they are the most...
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health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … to explain any of the child mortality variation between Ghana and its neighbors. Geography and health policy variables … each explain about 40% of the mortality gap between Ghana and Burkina Faso. Health policy differences alone are able to …
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schooling suggest a very strong negative relationship between education and disability pension use, particularly in the lower … security benefits. Our analysis of the extension of compulsory education from 7 to 9 years in Norway in the 1960s shows …
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from wealthier families and these adverse behaviors have long-term detrimental effects on academic outcomes, health and …
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