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Does education engender cultural values that matter for economic growth?
Bangwayo-Skeete, Prosper F.; Rahim, Afaf; Zikhali, Precious - 2009
economic development. -- Cultural Values ; Education ; Ordered Probit ; Semi-Nonparametric Estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003852264
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Human capital development
Son, Hyun H. - 2010
This paper has two main objectives. First, it assesses and measures the gaps in the stock of human capital across the world. It presents how effectively different regions are improving their stock of human capital, and how long it will take for developing countries to catch up with the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749689
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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: the promise and the reality
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020
India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th Plan (2007012). One dimension of this change was the...
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Human Capital for Growth : Possible Steps Towards an Upgrade of the Italian Education System
Cipollone, Piero; Montanaro, Pasqualino; Sestito, Paolo - 2012
The problems of Italy’s education system mostly stem from its modus operandi and interactions with the expectations of families and students. The recent signs of improvement in Italian students’ proficiency, plausibly reflecting greater emphasis on rigour, could be reinforced by making...
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Remittances and Economic Development - An Empirical Analysis of the Mexican Case (Remesas Y Desarrollo Económico - Un Análisis Empírico Del Caso Mexicano)
Zuleta, Hernando; Gonzalez, Ruben Dominguez - 2010
role that non-migrant women play in this relationship. The source of information is Consejo Nacional de Población de México … a sus comunidades de origen en México. Del mismo modo, se estudia el efecto que la participación de la mujer tiene en … este proceso. La fuente de información es el Consejo Nacional de Población de México CONAPO y contiene variables a nivel …
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Effect of Income Inequality on Aggregate Saving : A Panel Analysis
Deniz, Pinar - 2019
Savings problem has become a crucial issue since it is one of the reasons of today's frequently-observed-financial crisis. There are several theories explaining this problem in the framework of consumption theory. Inequality in income distribution affects saving behavior. In this sense, our...
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Should easier access to international credit replace foreign aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488418
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119295
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120067
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
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