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, improve their income, and pursue entrepreneurial options. The state of education in the Philippines as well as in APEC … for the development of human resources in the Philippines and lessons learnt from best practices in APEC economies were …
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agencies. It discusses fiscal pressures caused due to disasters and existing policies related to disaster-risk mitigation and …-economic impact of natural disasters and public investment for disaster-risk mitigation. … concerning disaster relief. On the empirical front, studies showing causal and associative relationships between disasters and …
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This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
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This paper shows that an accelerated increase in educational attainments in many East Asian countries derives from a dramatic augmentation of working population with vocational education relative to general education. This is consistent with the recent literature, which argues that the ratio of...
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Using a sample of 306 estimates drawn from 31 primary studies, this paper conducts an empirical synthesis of the link between economic growth and government expenditure on education or health using meta-analysis. We also explain the heterogeneity in empirical results. We find that the effect of...
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Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
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