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higher education to increase permeability and reform their highly praised systems of collective skill formation. This …
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framework, without research and education, without technical progress. On Measure the economic development, educational …This paper makes a brief analysis of education in general and of agricultural profile in particular, and highlights … institutions suffer changes of functions, adapting to specific needs of the moment. In traditional societies, education refers to …
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describe the changes in education and health financing and the associated changes in service delivery during the crisis. The … study. In particular, the study analyzes the size and dynamics of public financing of education and healthcare and their …
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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 …
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Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...
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include skilled human capital (number of highly educated workers), general manager’s education and tenure, and management team …’s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms’ innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager’s education that has a positive and …
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This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
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studies, we have found the discount rate to decrease with education. We examine this correlation further by testing the causal … effect of education and exploit two different sources of its variation: school frequency across villages and the number of … education has a significant impact on their discount rate, similar in magnitude for both types of instruments and robust to …
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the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960 … better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …
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traditional equilibrium, contraceptives are not used, fertility is high and education and growth are low. At the modern … equilibrium, contraceptives are used, fertility is low and further declining with increasing income, and education and growth are … provide more education for their children and leads to an earlier uptake of modern contraceptives and an earlier onset of the …
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