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study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
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This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …
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account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike …, cushioning people against economic risk, ensuring efficient provision of health and education services, providing social safety …
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expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …
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public spending on human capital and their correlates in Africa. The study found public spending on health and education in …
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In this chapter, Richard Harris points out that a traditional view has been that there is an inherent conflict between economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off (1975). This view gained renewed...
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Even if both the health and the educational sector are under the state supervision in basically all countries, there are wide differences in the mix of their public/private provision and financing across them. The debate on the proper mix between the private and the public involvement has also...
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Developmentalism versus economic liberalism in the populist period and social public expenditure - This article aims to investigate social public expenditure during the populist period (1930-1964) by carrying out a comparative analysis of the 'authoritarian' and 'democratic' ages. In addition,...
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The basic objective of the study is to examine the impact of public expenditure on health and education after … simultaneous equation model among health and education of children, and public expenditure on these sectors. Three stage least …. In addition, public expenditure on Supplementary Nutritional Program has indirect positive impact on education through …
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is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … women. To deal with the potential endogeneity, we rely on a natural experiment: an increase in the compulsory education from … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and …
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