For the past decade, South Asian governments have been investing heavily to achieve the education millennium development goals (MDGs). The region has also made great progress in enrolling girls in both primary and secondary school. The rapid gains in enrollment have not been accompanied by...

"Among developing member countries (DMCs), Indonesia and the Philippines rank fairly high in the distribution of real GDP per capita in PPP dollars while Bangladesh ranks much lower. In terms of aggregate schooling, the Philippines has secondary and tertiary enrollment rates that are...

The extent and seriousness of poverty vary markedly across Asian developing countries, and so does the rate at which poverty has changed over time. In addition, there are large intercountry differences in the extent to which social services, especially health and education, reach the poor. There...

1. Overview : handbook on food demand, supply, sustainability and security / Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil Deolalikar -- 2. The political economy of food security : a behavioral perspective / C. Peter Timmer -- 3. Shocks to the system : monitoring food security in a volatile world /...

The theme of this book is that economic growth is key, but institutions and other national and subnational attributes matter as well. They are critical to explaining differences in social development and poverty reduction across countries and subnational areas that cannot be accounted for by...

For the past decade, South Asian governments have been investing heavily to achieve the education millennium development goals (MDGs). The region has also made great progress in enrolling girls in both primary and secondary school. The rapid gains in enrollment have not been accompanied by...

"One of the key issues the world grappled with during Covid-19 was the distributional implications of lockdowns globally. The shadow of lockdown policies continues when nations still try to emerge out of the pandemic. Heterogeneity herein over time, country and even within nations in policy...

Untersuchungen des Arbeitsmarktes und des Heiratsmarktes in der Dritten Welt zeigen im allgemeinen eine hohe Korrelation zwischen Einkommen und Schulbildung bzw. ähnlicher Schulbildung der Frau verglichen mit dem Mann. Dennoch gibt es in beiden Fällen auch gravierende Abweichungen, die in...

Zahlreiche Studien belegen für die Dritte Welt einen engen positiven Zusammenhang zwischen Art und Dauer des Schulbesuchs, dem späteren Einkommen und der Dauer der Erwerbstätigkeit im Rahmen des formalen Arbeitsmarktes. Als Kritik an dieser Berechnung wird vor allem geäußert, daß die...