Gender equality represents the engine for economic, social and democratic development. In the majority of developed and developing countries, resources allocated by government are limited. The lack of financial resources for covering the existent social needs lead to such a problem like...

Throughout the years, gender equality has been a serious issue for many developed and underdeveloped countries. Therefore, the national economies have been struggling to achieve optimal level of gender equality, in order to build a harmonized and developed society.The state institution, starting...

The importance of approached theme lays in the equality notion as a multidimensional term embracing economic, cultural and social dimensions alike. There are strong reasons to believe that a reduction of gender inequality is important in the promotion of economic growth and in the reduction of...

School funding provides the foundation for our nation's schools. Yet, school funding in most states suffers from common shortcomings that undermine the aims of schools. These shortcomings include lower funding to districts serving students with greater needs, insufficient linkage of funding...

Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we exploit exogenous...

Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we implement a double...

The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on education in Pakistan at the provincial (both rural and urban) level, using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard Living Measures Survey (PSLM), 2004-2005, and by employing the three-step Benefit...

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...

Since 1999, thousands of Métis have received training and found employment through Métis Human Resources Development Agreements (MHRDAs). We estimate MHRDA activities’ annual fiscal impact, which includes higher tax revenue,lower government transfers, mostly in the form of EI and social...

Los programas sociales en el Perú han sido objeto de muchas críticas en cuanto a su focalización, tanto medida como la proporción de la población pobre que se beneficia de los programas, como la proporción del presupuesto que se gasta en esta población. Con el objetivo de conocer el por...