Looking at the decentralized provision of public education in a middle-income country, this paper estimates the impact … development. In the year 2002, Colombian municipalities were entrusted with autonomous management of their local public education … based solely on a population threshold. I estimate the impact that autonomy has had on education performance across the …

This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The … indicates that a higher level of education achieved by the population aged 15 and over has improved income distribution in Asia …, while educational inequality, measured by the education Gini index, has a negative effect on income distribution. Higher …

The developmental role of agriculture has long been recognized in the literature. As a leading sector of most economies … in the developing world, agriculture helps facilitate industrial growth and structural economic transformation …. Agriculture plays a multidimensional role in the development process, which includes eliciting economic growth, generating …