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Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam

Abbott, Philip Chase; Tarp, Finn; Wu, Ce - 2015

Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising. Vietnamese policymakers, however, are concerned that ongoing structural transformation is creating too few jobs. We use data for seven aggregated sectors...

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Biofuels technology: A look forward

Stafford, William; Lotter, Adrian; Brent, Alan; von … - 2017

This paper assesses biofuels technology readiness and provides foresight to biofuels development in Southern Africa. Efficient conversion pathways, coupled with biomass from waste or high-yielding energy crops, reduces both the costs of biofuels production and the environmental impacts....

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Does the adoption of peer-to-government mobile payments improve tax revenue mobilization in developing countries?

Wandaogo, Abdoul-Akim; Sawadogo, Fayçal; Lastunen, Jesse - 2022

Developing countries need to raise sufficient tax revenue to finance development. Revenue mobilization is often hampered by limited tax compliance, weak institutions, and technical problems with tax collection. One solution to these challenges is person-to-government (P2G) mobile phone payments,...

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Horizontal inequality in education and wealth in Tanzania: A 20-year perspective

Maliti, Emmanuel - 2016

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between … in education, gender inequality in educational attainment has consistently been declining over time. The same consistent …

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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia: Further evidence of a subnational 'diversity dividend'

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; … - 2014

The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...

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Children and the youth in rural Viet Nam

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol - 2015

Structural transformation in rural Viet Nam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare of children has been impacted by structural...

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On the fertility transition in Africa: Income, child mortality, or education?

Mveyange, Anthony - 2015

present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in …

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Impact of education on inequality across the wage distribution profile in Cameroon: 2005-10

Baye, Francis Menjo - 2015

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

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Gender-based violence and gender bias in schooling decision: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Koissy-Kpein, Sandrine A. - 2015

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys' and girls' dropouts. Based on the sixth phase of the Demographic and Health Surveys from 18 sub-Saharan...

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Lofty pine and clinging vine: The educational 'Great Gatsby Curve' and the role of house prices

You, Jing; Ding, Xinxin; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Wang, … - 2015

We investigate the heterogeneous and nonlinear intergenerational transmission channels of education and the impact on … effect drives increasing intergenerational persistence of education over time. …

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