inequality in education is more likely to affect the aid allocation of donor countries with female leadership in the relevant … ministry. We find no evidence for a needs-based allocation of aid for education. Female as well as male leaders appear to have …

economics' from principal agent models and contract theory. In particular, many education systems attempt to manage teaching and …. 1977; Boli et al. 1985; Meyer et al. 1997). That is, the field (in the sense of Bourdieu 1993) of global education has …, measured in any way). I conclude with a comparison in India of the national governments recent efforts in basic education which …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

obstacles to growth, poor education and poor access to electricity supply, we aggregate the firms' data at the sectoral level … primary and vocational education. Another key conclusion drawn in the AfDB report is that the main obstacle to production is …

health and education by new oil and gas revenues, and what other uses of those revenues are likely to arise. The paper argues …

We analyse horizontal inequality in wealth and in years of education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the … period of analysis. In addition, horizontal inequality in years of formal education is higher among geographical, gender and … gender-based inequality in years of education. We also find that gender-based horizontal inequality in years of education is …

camp does not have a negative influence on the education of local children. On the contrary, children residing closer to … views regarding the effects of refugees on local education. These results contribute to the body of literature on the …

role of education in creating socioeconomic opportunities, and show how unresolved immigration status detracts from …

This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …