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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"
Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015
China has made impressive strides in education in recent decades, even though the accumulation of human capital has lagged behind that of physical capital. Going forward, access to and quality of education will be key to sustain economic convergence with the most advanced economies and to offset...
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The impact of an un(der)funded inclusive education policy: evidence from the 2013 China Education Panel Survey
Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu; Xu, Lei - 2021
Using the 2013 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), we study the impact of a 2008 inclusive education policy, through which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling fees. Whereas the non-disclosure rule regarding...
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Elementary education in India versus China : guidelines for NEP implementation
Kumar, Naveen; Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from … China's shift in focus from 'quantity' to 'quality', and evidencebased guidelines for effective implementation of India … Curriculum Reform 20 years before India's NEP 2020 has put China on the path to achieving equitable development of 'quality …
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Elementary education in India versus China: Guidelines for NEP implementation
Kumar, Naveen; Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from … China's shift in focus from 'quantity' to 'quality', and evidencebased guidelines for effective implementation of India … Curriculum Reform 20 years before India's NEP 2020 has put China on the path to achieving equitable development of 'quality …
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Regulating Private Tutoring : Family Responses to the Double-Reduction Policy in China
Liu, Yinan; Wang, Ruobi; Chen, ZhanMing - 2022
Recently China has issued the Double-Reduction (DR) policy, which is an unprecedented revolution in education. Exploiting the timing variation across cities, we show that exposure to this policy led to less reliance on private tutoring and more importance attached to family education, leading to...
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Making Education in China Equitable and Efficient
Hossain, Shaikh I. - 2005
Whether China becomes competitive internationally depends on the quality of its human resources. The government's priorities should be to improve the equity, efficiency, and quality of social services, as well as their financing. As China consolidates its rapid economic gains and continues its...
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Looking back on the lessons of "higher education and developing countries: peril and promise" : perspectives on China and India
Bloom, David E.; Altbach, Philip G.; Rosovsky, Henry - 2016
focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …
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The returns to schooling in rural China : evidence from the Cultural Revolution education expansion
Sicular, Terry; Juan, Yang - 2015
During the Cultural Revolution China embarked on a remarkable, albeit temporary, expansion of post-primary education in rural areas. This education expansion affected tens of millions of children who reached secondary school age in the late 1960s and 1970s. Exploiting the education expansion and...
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Literacy, Education and Economic Development in Contemporary China
Yeoh 楊又興, Emile Kok-Kheng; Chu, Kah-Mun - 2013
Literacy has been conceptualized traditionally as having a major role in developing a nation. Literacy helps to spread awareness among the people of their rights. People with good literacy skills enjoy a higher standard of living, have better opportunities of finding jobs, and are able to...
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Big BRICs, weak foundations: The beginning of public elementary education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
Chaudhary, Latika; Musacchio, Aldo; Nafziger, Steven; … - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 2, pp. 221-240
developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the …
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