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Education for All? Measuring Pro-Poor Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2008
Achieving progress in education is of fundamental importance for human development. Low levels of access to the … education system and in educational outcomes in developing countries are often accompanied by high inequality between countries … education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within countries, and also by gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565055
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Institutions, Economic Development, and Deforestation
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan; Schwarze, Stefan - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009
This paper offers a unified framework linking two important debates: First, the debate about the respective roles of geography and institutions on economic development; Second, the literature on the role of technological change and economic development on agricultural intensification and land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564992
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2007
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109488