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Education Policy, Vocational Training, and the Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Technical, vocational education, and training has remained an explosive topic because it can create a divided society in terms of education and the benefits associated with it. Internationally, it has always been a complex and controversial topic...

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User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring and Voucher Systems in Education

The analysis of the optimal funding of education is complicated by the numerous and serious market failures which are likely to characterize a free market for education. Prominent amongst these are the likely external benefits of education, stressed...

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Investment in Education and Income Inequality

Income inequality has risen in many parts of the world during the past decades. Rising inequality is no longer a problem of only Latin American and Sub-Saharan African countries. Some OECD countries, and recently also East Asian countries, have...

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Education Policy, Vocational Training, and the Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Part of Book African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization

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User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring, and Voucher Systems in Education

Part of Book Social Provision in Low-Income Countries

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