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Data from 919 household surveys conducted between 1960 and 2012, spanning 147 economies, are used to evaluate the relationship between rising life expectancy at birth and lifetime years of schooling for successive birth cohorts between 1905 and 1988. The study finds significant positive effects...
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In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...
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The World Bank's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for 2009-2012 marks Indonesia's re-emergence as a confident middle-income country, and one that is enjoying a rising regional and global standing. Ten years ago, Indonesia was in the middle of an extremely severe economic crisis. Today,...
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and health, save for retirement, capitalize on business opportunities, and confront shocks. In the Europe and Central Asia …
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The share of immigrants in Western and Eastern Europe has increased rapidly over the past four decades.Today, one of … every three immigrants in the world goes to Europe. Furthermore, although globally onlyone-third of migration takes place … sendingcountries of Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, and Central Asia. This update focuses on the design ofpolicies on labor …
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The effect of structural reforms on growth in Europe and Central Asia is assessed by looking separately at each supply …
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This paper assesses the consequences of implementing a joint liability debt system in a two-country small open economy model. With joint liability a default of one country makes the other participant liable for its debt. The results highlight a trade-off between the contagion risk, in the sense...
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multidimensional connectivity, is broadened and explored in this study as it applies to Europe and Central Asia. Focusing on countries … from the Europe and Central Asia region, the paper shows that multidimensional connectivity is an economically and …
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growth in the Europe and Central Asia region. The study breaks new ground by using a multidimensional approach that … critical for achieving the greatest impact on growth.Europe and Central Asia provides a great laboratory for observing the role … within the Europe and Central Asia region and globally. The message is timely. Europe's once-confident march toward economic …
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The growing economic fissures in the societies of Europe and Central Asia between generations, between insiders and …
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