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For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
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The purpose of this paper is to track the development process in Egypt since the early sixties. The paper starts with the broad definition of the development and its goals, then it evolves to the stages of development in Egypt since the first five years plan (1960-1965) passing by the open door...
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This paper deals with an analysis of the effects of education on the income of Czech households from 2006-2010. EU … possible to make comparison between countries. Households are divided into five categories according to the education attained … education coefficient. Households at risk of poverty are also taken into account. Income inequality is measured by way of the …
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effect of both health and education capital on economic growth and poverty at the district level in Indonesia. Second …, although most existing cross-country studies tend to concentrate only on education as a measure of human capital, we expanded … education capital in accelerating growth and poverty reduction efforts. The empirical findings are broadly encouraging. First …
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poverty in Pakistan. The study decomposes education of the household into different levels: primary, middle, matriculation … declines as education level increases. The role of remittances appeared significant in reducing probability of being poor and …
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suggested. Rather than the universal devastation in poverty, employment, education and health so widely predicted and repeated …
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child work hours in adjoining rural regions. This result is consistent with a possibility of increasing returns to education … earnings of the migrants and to perhaps pay for the added education expense. I do not find evidence of credit constraints …
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This paper analyses the relations between poverty, inequality and economic growth in Brazil. First of all, based on recent research, it shows characteristics and historical evolution of inequality and poverty. These characteristics are not novelty to specialized research, but drawing them as...
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Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving …. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard to develop its higher education. An attempt is made in this …. Furthermore, the paper also delves the development of higher education in the country since independence. The paper provides some …
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This paper describes the concepts of poverty and vulnerability as well as the interconnections and differences between them using an interdisciplinary approach. While poverty is a static concept, vulnerability has a forward-looking dimension. We, therefore, review the methodologies that...
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