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The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
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The aim of this paper is to measure the returns to migration using non-experimental data taking both observed and unobserved characteristics into account. A significant challenge related to migration research and the issues of unobserved heterogeneity is that the standard 2stage least squares...
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. It discusses the various channels through which migration affects the education and wellbeing of non-migrant children in …. To conclude, the paper recognizes the policy challenges surrounding the migration-education linkage and considers some of …
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Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not...
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En este trabajo se presenta un análisis del instrumento del crédito fiscal como mecanismo de incentivo para la inversión en I+D+i en Argentina, tal como se encuentra funcionando desde el año 1998. Se describen los principales aspectos regulatorios del mismo y, a través de modelos...
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The general objective of this project was to improve the quality of education at the Ticuna indigenous schools in the … people are the principal actors in the transformation of their education system. The outcomes of this program went beyond its …
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In areas torn by war and violence, effective education can prepare the next generation for a productive life, heal … psychological wounds, prevent cyclical violence, and achieve peace. "From Bullets to Blackboards" profiles ten exemplary education …, primary and bilingual education, vocational skills for ex-combatants and displaced families, and training for human rights and …
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This study provides detailed accounting of the current levels of social exclusion in education and factors contributing … to them. It provides a quantitative and qualitative accounting and profiling of social exclusion in education in the … contextual factors intervening in the delivery of a quality education at all levels to socially excluded groups, particularly …
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The general objective of this project was to improve the quality of education at the Ticuna indigenous schools in the … people are the principal actors in the transformation of their education system. The outcomes of this program went beyond its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654029
This synthesis report begins with a brief overview of the education system in Chile and the expressed need for a …
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