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Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...
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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become an essential vehicle for infrastructure development worldwide. Theoretical arguments primarily focus on build-operate-transfer (BOT) agreements as a canonical form of PPP, though they rarely discuss the political underpinnings of governments'...
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Housing prices are rising faster than incomes in many areas of the world, reducing well-being and engendering social discontent. Passivity by municipal and national governments is no longer an option. In this essay, I will describe the tradeoffs between different housing policy objectives of...
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Cross-country differences in homeownership rates are large and persistent over time, with homeownership rates ranging from 44% in Switzerland to 83% in Spain. This paper investigates whether cultures-defined as behavioral attitudes passed across generations-may value homeownership differently,...
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights promises free elementary education and free choice of schools to children and … allows parents almost no choice at all in basic education …
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education policy in the developed country, and how it affects human capital and welfare in the two countries. We argue that a … country after graduation, incentivises the host country to improve its education quality. A higher education quality in turn …
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decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …
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extent of private education. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Peru, Romania, Russia …, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other countries, Professor Tooley gave a snapshot of private education that was unknown to many … readers; contrary to expectations, the private education sector was large in the countries studied, was innovative, and was …
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Numerous changes have recently taken place in the domain of higher education. Most of these changes have led to intense … discussion between the Higher Education Commission, which is the main instrument for these reforms, and several academics who are … relation to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which aims to end all public subsidies for education. Through …
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