higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic and …

As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity … gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in … the long run outweighs this short run loss. This paper points to such “learning cost” in technology upgrading as a …

leading academics and OECD staff from the Economics Department, the Directorates of the Environment, Science and Technology …

from shifts in technology. Countries experiencing input-driven growth in the secondary sector, such as Namibia and Eswatini …, have the potential to achieve growth through efficiency improvements and by adopting technology. Output growth in the …

/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both …; and facilitate payments. We evaluate the role of technology in South African fresh fruit and selected processed food value …