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Two related measures of educational inequality are proposed: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have typically...
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Does private tutoring increase parental choice and improve student achievement, or does it exacerbate social inequalities and impose heavy costs on households, possibly without improving student outcomes? Private tutoring is now a major component of the education sector in many developing...
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investment and to provide theoretical reasons as to why this linkage may not materialise in Africa within the short to medium … agricultural investments are made defective in Africa by factors such as poverty, lack of appropriate agro‐based infrastructure and …
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farm size in Africa using Ghana as a case study. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs mixed methods … agricultural productivity in Africa using Ghana as a case study. Thus the paper is of relevance to policy-makers and practitioners … in Africa and Ghana in particular who are seeking to make informed policy decisions on effectively incorporating credit …
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mainly on limited empirical investigations into leadership styles and functions in Africa. The scarcity of studies in the … paper will guide organizational development strategies and poverty alleviation policies in Africa. Originality/value – It is … one of the recent attempts to synthesize existing perspectives on leadership behaviour in Africa and its implications for …
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Purpose – In this editorial the Guest Editor attempts to link the idea of sustainable development in Africa to the … development of Africa, they only implicitly and indirectly talk to sustainability philosophies or approaches. In essence, they … principal aims of the millennium development goals for Africa.  …
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but increase in Egypt and South Africa. Shocks induced by either stock prices or the exchange rate are more protracted in … Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius and Nigeria than in South Africa and Egypt. Originality/value – This is one of the few studies on … Africa which tests for long‐run dynamics and impulse response shock dynamics within a VAR framework. Again unlike other …
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. Findings – A review of the extant literature on careers revealed a dearth of knowledge on career dynamics in Africa. The paper … generates insights that are expected to aid the development of more research on career dynamics in Africa, a relatively …
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significance of Ubuntu cultural context to the understanding and applicability of CSR in Africa, there has been no adequate …
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