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Since the onset of the Arab Spring, economic uncertainty in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen (Arab Countries in Transition, ACTs) has slowed already sluggish growth; worsened unemployment, particularly of youth; undermined business confidence, affected tourist arrivals, and...
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savings rates; (ii) improving the efficiency of social spending and public enterprise reforms; (iii) investment in education … and education reforms; (iii) labor market reforms; and (iv) further measures to reduce bottlenecks and increase …
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quality of their public spending, most notably in education to minimize the skill mismatch in the labor market, reduce the …
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episodes? (ii) has this growth had an impact on socially desirable outcomes, for example, improvements in health, education and …
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market wages above fallback incomes to attract individuals to the labor force. For that, measures to improve education and …
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last decade in the selected countries came with increased average opportunities in education and health; but distribution …
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saving and increased consumption. The main findings are that spending on health, but not education, had an impact on …
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The measurement of the efficiency of public education expenditure using parametric and non-parametric methods has … the efficiency of secondary education spending in emerging and developing economies. The approach accounts for the impact … of the level of development on education outcomes by constructing different efficiency frontiers for lower- and higher …
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The paper provides a detailed description of a novel dataset on education attainment in public administrations covering … heterogeneity across regions when considering a non quality-adjusted measure of education attainment in public administrations … differing from that of standard measures of education attainment for the general population. The dataset also allows us to …
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Following very strong growth during the period 2000–12, emerging market economies (EMEs) experienced a slowdown in the last couple of years. This paper examines the supply-side drivers of the strong growth performance of 63 EMEs and investigates if the recent slowdown in growth is...
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