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  • From Mines and Wells to Well-Built Minds

    Turning Sub-Saharan Africa's Natural Resource Wealth into Human Capital

    by Bénédicte de la Brière, Deon Filmer, Dena Ringold, Dominic Rohner, Karelle Samuda, Anastasiya Denisova ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Human Development
    Sub-Saharan Africa's natural resource-rich countries have poor human development. Children in these countries are more likely to die before their first birthday, more likely to be stunted, and less likely to attend school than children in other countries with similar income. Despite the current price downturn, extractives will remain an important part of Sub-Saharan Africa's growth story—using ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Deon Filmer, Louise Fox ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    High fertility and declining mortality rates have led to a very young population in most Sub-Saharan African countries. The region's labor force is expected to increase by 11 million people per year over the next 10 years. Most of this increase will be new entrants seeking their first job. While the younger generation is better educated than their parents, they often lack the means to translate ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Schools Work: New Evidence on Accountability Reforms

    by Bruns,Barbara; Filmer,Deon; Patrinos,Harry Anthony ...
    This book is about the threats to education quality in the developing world that cannot be explained by lack of resources. It reviews the observed phenomenon of service delivery failures in public education: cases where programs and policies increase the inputs to education but do not produce effective services where it counts - in schools and classrooms. It documents what we know about the extent ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Deon Filmer, Louise Fox ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    High fertility and declining mortality rates have led to a very young population in most Sub-Saharan African countries. The region?s labor force is expected to increase by 11 million people per year over the next 10 years. Most of this increase will be new entrants seeking their first job. While the younger generation is better educated than their parents, they often lack the means to translate ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Political Culture of Cheating and Compliance in Argentina and Chile

    by Marcelo Bergman ...
    Few tasks are as crucial for the future of democracy in Latin America—and, indeed, in other underdeveloped areas of the world—as strengthening the rule of law and reforming the system of taxation.In this book, Marcelo Bergman shows how success in getting citizens to pay their taxes is related intimately to the social norms that undergird the rule of law. The threat of legal sanctions is itself ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Trade Unions

    A Study of a Research Field and Its Findings

    by Hristos Doucouliagos, Richard B. Freeman, Patrice Laroche ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
    Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff’s now classic 1984 book What Do Unions Do? stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economicimpact of trade unions. Trade unions continue to be a significant feature of many labormarkets, particularly in developing countries, and issues of labor market regulationsand labor institutions remain critically important to researchers and ... Read more

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  • Social Assistance and Conditional Cash Transfers

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    Edited by Sri Wening Handayani, Clifford Buckley ...
    The regional workshop, held on 23-24 July 2009 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), brought together people from ADB, its developing member countries, partner development agencies, research institutes, and civil society organizations to share their views and experience on social protection and its modalities, especially the conditional cash transfers (CCTs). The regional workshop served as a forum ... Read more

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    Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big ... Read more

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  • The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019: Safeguarding against Economic Slowdowns and Downturns

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    For the first time, the report provides evidence that many people in the world, even if not hungry, experience moderate food insecurity as they face uncertainties about their ability to obtain food and are forced to compromise on the quality and/or quantity of the food they consume. This phenomenon is observed globally, not only in low- and middle-income countries but also in high income countries ... Read more

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  • Poverty and Discrimination

    by Kevin Lang ...
    Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.Using ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Flat World and Education

    How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future

    by Linda Darling-Hammond ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
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  • Handbook of Development Economics

    Edited by M.R. Rosenzweig, Dani Rodrick ...
    Series Book 5 - Handbooks in Economics
    What guidance does academic research really provide to economic policy development? The critical and analytical surveys in this volume investigate links between policies and outcomes by surveying work from broad macroeconomic policies to interventions in microfinance. Asserting that there are no universal correspondences between policies and outcomes, contributors demonstrate instead that only an ... Read more

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