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Weiterbildungsgutscheine : Wirkungen eines Finanzierungsmodells in vier europäischen Ländern

Käpplinger, Bernd - 2013 - Online-Ausg.

Weiterbildungsgutscheine und -schecks werden seit einigen Jahren in Deutschland verstärkt eingesetzt, um die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung von Beschäftigen und Betrieben zu erhöhen. Auch in Europa, so in der Schweiz, in Österreich und in Südtirol, gibt es ähnliche Programme. Die Studie...

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Loan and grant support for students in the context of the diversification of funding sources for higher education

Sokolovska, Alla; Rainova, Larysa; Zatonatska, Tetiana - In: Mokslo darbai / Vilniaus Universitetas 98 (2019) 1, pp. 111-123

This paper considers the mechanism of direct state support for students in European countries using loans and grants: their functions, forms, schemes, and conditions for provision. The peculiarities of the state preferential educational loan in Ukraine and the reasons for its curtailment since...

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A toolkit for assessing the directions of budget financing of education in post-crisis conditions

Nazukova, Nataliia - In: Economy and forecasting : scientific journal (2021) 3, pp. 114-126

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Conditional Cash Transfers in Education : Design Features, Peer and Sibling Effects Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

Barrera, Felipe; Bertrand, Marianne; Linden, Leigh L. - 2012

This paper presents an evaluation of multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries - the conditional cash transfer - with a student level randomization that allows the authors to generate intra-family and peer-network variation. The analysis tests...

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Mobilizing resources for education and improving spending effectiveness : establishing realistic benchmarks based on past trends

Al-Samarrai, Samer; Cerdan-Infantes, Pedro; Lehe, Jonathan - 2019

This paper looks at how countries have mobilized additional resources for education and assesses their impact on access and learning outcomes, using the World Bank's new Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling measure. The paper shows that global spending on education has risen significantly over...

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The cost efficiency improvement of Norwegian banks can be explained by automation and digitalisation

Andersen, Henrik - 2020

Operating costs in the Norwegian banking sector have been reduced considerably in recent decades, both as a share of …, I analyse how costs have been reduced and the main drivers of the cost efficiency improvement. The results suggest that …

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Governance structures, voluntary disclosures and public accountability : The case of UK higher education institutions

Ntim, Collins G.; Soobaroyen, Teerooven; Broad, Martin J. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30 (2017) 1, pp. 65-118

’s (2004) public accountability index, referred to in this paper as a public accountability and transparency index (PATI), to … from public accountability, legitimacy, resource dependence and stakeholder perspectives, the authors propose that the … for the continued relevance of a “shared” leadership in the HEIs’ sector towards enhancing accountability and transparency …

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Accountability of transnational corporations in the developing world : The case for an enforceable international mechanism

Omoteso, Kamil; Yusuf, Hakeem - In: critical perspectives on international business 13 (2017) 1, pp. 54-71

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contend that the dominant voluntarism approach to the accountability of … legal mechanism for securing the accountability of TNCs, particularly in the context of developing countries with … with regard to securing the accountability of TNCs are illustrated with the Nigerian experience of oil-industry legislation …

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The Nonprofitization of Public Education: Implications of Requiring Charter Schools to be Nonprofits in New York

Silverman, Robert Mark - In: Nonprofit Policy Forum 3 (2012) 1

This article examines charter schools applying a nonprofit conceptual frame of reference. The proliferation of charter schools is framed as a form of nonprofitization of public education. The implications of this trend are discussed. This discussion is contextualized through an examination of...

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The European Foundation Statute Proposal: Striking the Balance between Supervising and Supporting European Philanthropy?

Breen, Oonagh B. - In: Nonprofit Policy Forum 5 (2013) 1, pp. 5-43

Foundation (Fundatio Europaea). Focusing on the proposed transparency and accountability provisions, it interrogates whether …

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