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revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … the education system (by private and public education investments) determines the quality of the human capital stock as … consumption and saving. An efficient tax and transfer system being accompanied by an education system financed in public private …
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, education for all, gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and creation of a global partnership for development. To understand … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is … made in this article to demonstrate how increased education opportunities and increased welfare reduces child labour …
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. Further, hunger (calorie deficiency) has actually increased during the post-reform period. Using household level National … dividend by reducing hunger. Indeed rising per capita incomes are not likely to be sufficient to reduce hunger. The paper also …
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protection. Results from a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana are combined with the extensive margin elasticity of …
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several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …
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the impact of child health on education outcomes, but there are formidable obstacles to obtaining credible estimates. Data … sources of bias when attempting to estimate relationships between child health and education. This Chapter provides an … facts about child health and education in less developed countries. It then provides a framework for analyzing the impact of …
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the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly … (increasingly) positive from Hopefuls to Best Performers. Second, on within categories: (1) health spending has positive threshold …
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the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase … of the 33 countries in the Hopefuls category are in SSA. Second, the effect of health is decreasingly positive from …
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policy on education and health. The study employs panel dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) estimation technique and covers … is the need to improve governments' allocation to the health and education sectors to deepen households' income. … the period 1980-2017. The results reveal that foreign aid augmented with effective fiscal policy on education …
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