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Inclusive Growth in Mozambique seminar series: Octávio Pedreira from the World Bank presents the latest data on Education sector in MozambiqueOn 2 May 2019, Octávio Pedreira, a specialist from the World Bank will present at the Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo, on ‘Education in Mozambique: Results from the 2018 Service Delivery Indicator Survey’. The presentation...
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David Evans presents at the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique seminar seriesDavid Evans will give a presentation on 25 April at the Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, on ‘Addressing the global learning crisis: can improved teacher practices help?’. The presentation will be in Portuguese. The event is part of...
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The gender gap, education, and the life cycle profile in the Brazilian formal labour marketWe study the trajectory of the gender gap over time and over the life cycle, using a matched employer-employee data from the formal labour market in Brazil...
Earnings inequality Linked employer-employee data EducationWorking Paper
Effects of an education reform on household poverty and inequality: A microsimulation analysis on the free Senior High School policy in GhanaThe level of income can be directly inferred from the level of education, making education an important variable as a key determinant of better livelihoods and poverty alleviation...
Education School reform microsimulationWorking Paper
The evolution of private returns to education during post-conflict transformation: Evidence from MozambiqueThis paper estimates how private returns to education have evolved in the context of postconflict transformation in Mozambique...
Returns to education Workforce EmploymentBook Chapter
The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughtersFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Development Education Family planningIn the media
The public forum on higher education in Mozambique covered by the national mediaOn 4 September 2018, the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique Programme hosted a Public Forum in Maputo to share the findings of its report Baseline Survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in Mozambique . The event gathered...
Education Education, HigherPolicy Brief
Employment expectations of university students in Mozambique: Results from a baseline surveyBefore now, there has been no systematic study of the transition of university students as they finish their studies and enter the labour market...
Employment Education WagesReport
Baseline Survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in MozambiqueThe survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in Mozambique aims to respond to the concerns of the Government of Mozambique and development partners with respect to youth employment in the country...
Employment Education WagesJournal Article
Ethnic fragmentation, public good provision and inequality in India, 1988–2012We study how ethnic fragmentation in Indian districts influences the distribution of consumption, both overall and between social groups...
Education Equality and inequality Health careBook Chapter
Choices for spending government revenue: New African oil, gas, and mining economiesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Extractives Education FrameworkWorking Paper
Puzzle me this?: The Vietnamese reverse gender education gapWe investigate within the context of Viet Nam how circumstances at age 15 or 16 relate to completion of upper secondary education four years later...
Gender Education access to educationNews
Press release: Public Forum on Higher Education: A Profile of Mozambican Graduates‘ Inclusive growth in Mozambique ’ programme to launch a report at a public forum on 04 September 2018 Researchers will be available for interviews at the event The Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme will host a public forum at the...
Education Higher education EmploymentWorking Paper
Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcareThis paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that spread across and within countries over 50 years...
Healthcare Education StateBlog
Young Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in the UK: Does more education mean better futures?
Education is my freedom ... if I have my education, everything is still possible for me in the future. Mohammed grinned, and looked down at his newly acquired university student card...
Migration Refugees YouthWorking Paper
The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UKUnprecedented numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have arrived in Europe over the last decade, and young Afghans account for the highest proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children across the UK...
Migration Refugees Youth