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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: the promise and the reality

Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020

, the Germanic one. The paper begins by spelling out what the goals of the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF …

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Does education engender cultural values that matter for economic growth?

Bangwayo-Skeete, Prosper F.; Rahim, Afaf; Zikhali, Precious - 2009

growth, how then can societies promote them? This paper attempts to answer this question using the 2005 wave of the World …

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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...

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For long-term economic development, only skills matter : Economic growth determines a nation’s long-term economic well-being and crucially depends on skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2017

linked to its rate of economic growth. In turn, its growth rate is directly linked to the economically relevant skills of its … difficulties in measuring the skills of different societies. International tests of mathematics and science achievement now offer … reliable measures of a population’s relevant cognitive skills. …

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Talent, labor quality, and economic development

Cubas, German; Ravikumar, B.; Ventura, Gustavo - In: Review of economic dynamics 21 (2016), pp. 160-181

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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023

This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...

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Modern services led growth and development in a structuralist dual economy : long-run implications of skilled labor constraint

Thakur, Gogol Mitra - In: Metroeconomica : international review of economics 74 (2023) 4, pp. 748-776

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The Importance of Education Quality for Growth and Development

Gerba, Eddie - 2015

In this paper we present a model of optimizing behavior in a two-sector, centrally planned, economy that faces a given interest rate and that is capable of generating sustainable growth. By allowing the model economy to benefit from innovations at the technology frontier through a simple process...

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Drivers of inclusive development : an empirical investigation

Dörffel, Christoph; Draper, Peter; Freytag, Andreas; … - 2021

Concerns about socially uneven progress and inequality have regained public attention (including that of many populist politicians). The purpose of this paper is to identify the economic policies as well as economic factors that facilitate inclusive development. This paper is a first attempt to...

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Typhoon Aid and Development : The Effects of Typhoon-Resistant Schools and Instructional Resources on Educational Attainment In the Philippines

Cas, Ava - 2016

This paper examines the effects on educational attainment of assistance programs that provided typhoon-resistant secondary schools and instructional resources in the Philippines. Using the variation in the availability of assistance programs and differences in exposure across age cohorts induced...

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