Showing 1 - 10 of 105
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246134
Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a priority concern for policy makers. However, these objectives are not readily achieved in practice when household consumption data are neither frequently collected, nor constructed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396324
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012636829
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288600
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434043
The barriers faced by Chinese rural-urban migrants to access social services, particularly education, in host cities could help explain why the majority of migrants choose to leave their children behind. This paper proposes a theoretical framework that allows for an explicit discussion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245551
Private tutoring is now a major component of the education sector in many developing countries, yet education policy too seldom acknowledges and makes use of it. Various criticisms have been raised against private tutoring, most notably that it exacerbates social inequalities and may even fail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521229
Given its modest position as a lower-middle-income country, Vietnam stands out from the rest of the world with its remarkable performance on standardized test scores, school enrollment, and completed years of schooling. This paper provides an overview of the factors behind this exemplary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245971
Absent actual panel household survey data, this paper constructs, for the first time, synthetic panel data for more than 20 countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, the analysis employs repeated cross sections that span, on average, a six-year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246189
Little research currently exists on a vulnerability line that distinguishes the poor population from the population that is not poor but that still faces significant risk of falling back into poverty. This paper attempts to fill this gap by proposing vulnerability lines that can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396225