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Behar, Alberto - 2013

This paper draws on existing empirical literature and an original theoretical model to argue that globalization and …

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Economy for and against democracy

Hart, Keith (ed.) - 2015

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Economy for and against democracy

Hart, Keith (ed.) - 2015

Introduction / Keith Hart -- Economy versus democracy -- Habits of austerity : financialization and new ways of dealing with money / Jürgen Schraten -- What financial crisis? The global politics of finance : distributional consequences and legitimizing narratives / Horacio Ortiz -- Party...

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Educational Inequality and Reservation Policy in Developing Markets

Bao, Weining; Ni, Jian; Singh, Shubhranshu - 2021

Educational inequality undermines the pivotal role of education in increasing the ability of the poor to move up the income ladder. This paper investigates educational inequality that arises from low-income students' lack of monetary resources that higher-income students invest in...

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Bias and careers: evidence from the aid effectiveness literature

Doucouliagos, Chris; Hinz, Thomas; Zigova, Katarina - 2020

We investigate whether estimates of the effect of aid on growth are influenced by authors' careers. We collect data on the careers of 190 authors and apply meta-regression analysis to investigate the impact of authors' age and tenure status on the reported magnitude of aid effectiveness, and on...

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What stops poor girls from going to college? : skill development and access to higher education in a developing country

Molina, Oswaldo; Santa María, Diego; Yamada, Gustavo - 2018

Although recent evidence suggests that the aggregate gender gap in access to Higher Education in Peru has been closed, differences in enrollment between the poor and the rich are still notably larger among girls. This paper explores the factors behind these gender differences in access to Higher...

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Board Members’ Education and Firm Performance : Evidence from a Developing Economy

Darmadi, Salim - 2011

Empirical studies focusing on the influence of the educational backgrounds of CEO and board members on firm performance is scarce in the literature. This study makes a contribution by addressing such an issue in the context of Indonesia, a developing country that adopts a two-tier board system....

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Emerging Trends of Higher Education in Developing Countries

Rena, Ravinder - 2015

of higher education and globalization of economic activities, education has become a national concern in developing … generally acknowledged that globalization has created tremendous impacts on higher education in this first decade of twenty … context of 21st century. Besides, the paper examines the response of higher education to globalization in developing countries …

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Financing Education and Development in Eritrea - Some Implications

Rena, Ravinder - 2015

Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...

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Innovative Education : Public-Private Partnership for Developing International Trading Talent

Kumar, Ravi; Tan, Boon Seng - 2018

The education sector is often criticized for the growing gap between what business needs and what education provides. This paper discusses an innovative use of tripartite public-private partnership (PPP) of the government, university and industry partners to design, build, operate and finance...

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