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This paper examines human capital investment in rural households of developing countries, where child labour is prevalent. There are two features to the model: first, children contribute in an economic sense through child labour and through old-age security. Therefore, demand for children is...
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Bangladesh spends only 2 percent of its GNP on education, compared to 3.2 percent in an average low-income country. Low … investment in education results in low literacy (only 35 percent), which in turn results in low productivity, low incomes, poor … education sector in recent years, with the help of the World Bank and other donor agencies. This paper assesses whether these …
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This paper reviews income distribution in developing countries in recent decades. On average, before-tax income distribution is less unequal in developing countries than it is in industrial countries. However, unlike industrial countries, developing countries in general have not been able to use...
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deficits down, the education budget will remain constrained in most countries. …
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educational attainment has been a prerequisite for the success of such a strategy. The current level of education development has … been low, and the development of primary education has stagnated and even declined in some countries since the early 1980s …
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In this paper we examine the relationship between educational inputs and school outcomes in South Africa immediately before the end of apartheid government and, in doing so, we add to what is known about the impact of exogenous changes in school quality on child outcomes. There are three...
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people's physical well-being, such as health, nutrition and education, and others to the widening of choice an enhanced …
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in the provision of health and education in developing countries. Many influential surveys have found that the empirical … infant mortality rates. Decentralization also improves preference matching in education, and can do so in health under …
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