This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC … effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education distortions. Analytically, the effect of SBTC on these three … distributional losses, and it increases education distortions. Also, SBTC lowers optimal education subsidies, since SBTC generates …

The quality of teaching and learning today is still a distant dream, even when compared to the access to education. The …

This paper examines the governance-“education quality” nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the … following findings are established. First, from the OLS, governance variables are negatively correlated with poor education … education quality in the lowest quantile of poor education quality. With the exception of corruption-control, the other …

, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: (i) Education and governance raise the level of TFP … directly; and (ii) education and governance also raise TFP through their interaction with foreign R&D in R …) that taking into account the interaction effects between trade, education and governance by reforming the policies …