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Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354550
Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884381
may promote economic well-being – via beneficial changes in labor productivity, education, and investment, and through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884394
We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to UN projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of the...
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We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to United Nations projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625358
Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331403
may promote economic well-being - via beneficial changes in labor productivity, education, and investment, and through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331419
This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our results show that the economic returns to parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984547
Access to education increased enormously in the past century, and higher proportions of people are completing primary …, secondary, or tertiary education than ever before. But efforts to universalize the provision of high-quality schooling face … of Arts and Sciences), leading experts consider the challenges of achieving universal basic and secondary education …
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-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …
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