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 …

secondary education among the poor, and the adoption of more equalizing tax, labour market subsidies and macro policies by a …

large differences in investment rates across countries. Construction is the largest component of investment. This paper … examines the implications of heterogeneity in construction productivity on cross-country income disparity. We estimate the 10 …:1 spread in construction productivity among 145 countries in 2005 as a factor of 61.7-fold. Based on a general equilibrium …

The construction sector is a key enabler for social and economic development worldwide. In Tanzania, the sector growth … and challenges in the areas of access to land, construction permits, skills, and availability of materials and equipment …

The construction sector plays a key role in providing structures for economies. This paper surveys the literature on … key issues pertaining to the construction sector. It starts by summarizing our knowledge about differences in unit costs …

The construction sector plays a critical role in delivering quality infrastructure, which in turn influences the use of … political economy lenses to describe and understand the organization of and changes in the construction industry in Zambia … Zambia's construction sector and offer options for dealing with the key bottlenecks. In particular, we suggest: institutional …

increasingly depend on the ability of the construction sector to respond to surges in demand and transform investment effort into … the construction sector in Uganda and identifies possible policy remedies to relieve them. A secondary point of emphasis … in the paper's analysis is the interaction between government and construction firms through public procurement, and the …