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, within and among countries. The stakes are high indeed. Timely access to news and information can promote trade, education …
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Universal Primary Education. The context for these improvements was a government strongly committed to implementing a program of … educational reform that refocused government resources away from secondary and tertiary education and onto the basic sector. But …This paper demonstrates that the delivery of hardware inputs to Ghana’s basic education system – building classrooms …
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„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average income (income per person in Australia). ¡V Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. ¡V Faster...
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This paper reports labour market returns to education in Bangladesh using data from recent nationwide household survey … male counterparts). Our ordinary least square estimates of returns to education are robust to control for types of schools …
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follows that According to Marx income inequality based on different level of education are justifiable, but income inequality … education still persist, although they were at least in Czechoslovakia significantly reduced. In both Czechoslovakia and Poland …
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Lifelong learning is education for the knowledge economy. In order for Jamaica to transition from a Developing Country …
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This paper carries out an assessment of the influence that different kinds of social ties exert on labour precariousness, on the state of health of urban environments and on the economic performance in Italy. Overall, the empirical evidence shows that weak ties connecting members of voluntary...
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Nell’ultimo Rapporto sullo Sviluppo Umano delle Nazioni Unite, si afferma che gli Obiettivi di Sviluppo del Millennio potranno essere raggiunti solo se acquisteranno significato per i miliardi di individui per i quali sono stati concepiti. La gestione diretta degli aiuti internazionali da...
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This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
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There has been an increasing awareness within the developed world that the cultural industries may play an important role in economic development. The fact that most of the commercial cultural industries have relatively low distribution costs, and that the gains from the mass production of a...
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