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include macroeconomic management, human capital, trade, governance, and labour and capital markets. Given strong …
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, with Syria having achieved near universal primary education enrolment and a high rate of completed secondary education. Due … important education-related questions for the international community as a whole, like the educational background of Syrians … Syrian education in the broader global context. It aims to provide detailed information that other researchers, policymakers …
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This essay first sketches some descriptive material, setting the stage and demonstrating the highly differentiated statistical landscape of various measures for youth unemployment in Europe compared to India and in particular to Germany. Second, it provides a simple but powerful model for the...
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We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …
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based on census and largescale survey data from 13 European countries, collected in the Cohort Fertility and Education … education. The results suggest that the changes in the educational composition of the population were only marginally related to … decreased: the differences between women of medium/high education and low educated women diminished. However, the childlessness …
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-demographic determinants, disaster experience and education are found to be key predictors of individual disaster preparedness. This paper … explores the pathways through which education enhances disaster preparedness and the interplay between education and experience …: the Philippines and Thailand. While education raises the propensity to prepare against disasters, we further find that the …
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education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and … with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes … employers in key industries, education providers, workforce agencies and intermediaries at the state level, plus a range of …
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Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …
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Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...
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education and employment outcomes, both among in-school youth who are at risk of dropping out and becoming disconnected as well …
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