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Is EFA Affordable? Estimating the global minimum cost of 'Education for All'
Delamonica, Enrique; Mehrotra, Santosh; Vandemoortele, Jan - 2001
Progress towards the target of universal access to basic education by the year 2000, set by two global conferences in …, in virtually all countries one explanation stands out: inadequate public finance for primary education. This paper … updates the global and regional cost estimates for achieving 'education for all' by 2015 the new target date set by the Social …
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Are children and parents substitutes or complements in the family labor supply decision in Bangladesh?
Amin, Shahina; Quayes, Shakil; Rives, Janet M. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 40 (2006) 1, pp. 15-37
This research uses logistic regression to determine whether a parent (father or mother) and a child are substitutes or complements in the family labor supply decision in Bangladesh. We look separately at models for children's market work and children's household work. For market work, we test...
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The servicification of manufacturing in Asia : redefining the sources of labor productivity
Mercer-Blackman, Valerie; Ablaza, Christine - 2018
Services are playing an increasingly important role in the global economy. Over the last few decades, the sector's contribution to output, employment, and value-added trade has grown quite dramatically. The rise of services and apparent decline of manufacturing employment have raised concerns...
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Sustainability reporting in Asia : Are the EU’s initiatives the benchmark for ESG disclosure in the region?
Schumacher, Kim; Baek, Yong Jun; In, Soh Young; … - 2022
Corporate sustainability reporting is now a strategically important space that impacts corporate valuations, supply chains, and business models. However, a lack of convergence of regulatory frameworks in Europe and Asia is hampering transparency, reporting quality, comparability, and investment...
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Statistics of the colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, North America, Asia, Austral-Asia, Africa and Europa
Martin, Robert Montgomery - 1839
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Migration, Human Capital Formation, and Growth: An Empirical Investigation
Di Maria, Corrado; Lazarova, Emiliya A. - In: World Development 40 (2012) 5, pp. 938-955
We study the effect of skilled emigration on human capital formation and growth in a sample of developing countries. We find that the migration rate exerts statistically significant effects on both the level and the composition of human capital. We are able to trace the impact of these changes...
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2013 Global Food Policy Report
Marble, Andrew (contributor); Fritschel, Heidi (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
This 2013 Global Food Policy Report is the third in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food and nutrition security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that...
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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion : Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Dist...
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology …-related) model. Findings are: i) TFP increases with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content, and declines with …% of its TFP gap with East Asia; iii) raising LA's education to East Asia's level has a larger impact on TFP and on the TFP …
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Asia and South America: A Quasi-Common Economy Approach
Canuto, Otaviano; Sharma, Manu - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 65, pp. 1-7
The Asian style of regional integration may be seen as a “quasi-common economy” that eschews a formal linkup in political or monetary terms, but manages to generate similar results by strong physical integration and distributed chains of production and service delivery. This note proposes...
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