Documents et rapports
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Lost Wages : The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures (anglais)
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to school closures. In April, 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the world's learners:...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9246 Date du document: 14 mai 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George,Collis,Victoria,Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Vegas,Emiliana
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Returns to Investment in Education : The Case of Turkey (anglais)
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8789 Date du document: 21 mars 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Psacharopoulos,George,Tansel,Aysit
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Returns to investment in education : a decennial review of the global literature (anglais)
Returns to investment in education based on human capital theory have been estimated systematically since the 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several compilations...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8402 Date du document: 11 avril 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Education : past, present and future global challenges (anglais)
Progress in educational development in the world since 1900 has been slow and uneven between countries. Providing basic education for all children in developing countries has been and remains an unmet...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5616 Date du document: 1 mars 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Psacharopoulos,George
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Indigenous people and poverty in Latin America : an empirical analysis (espagnol)
Indigenous people make up a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. While the incidence of poverty is high in Latin America, it is particularly severe and deep among the indigenous population...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 13551 Date du document: 1 novembre 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Poverty and income distribution in Latin America : the story of the 1980s (anglais)
This report presents the findings of a regional study on poverty and income distribution in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study was undertaken because of the significance of these issues and the...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WTP351 Date du document: 30 avril 1997 Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George,Morley,Samuel A.,Fiszbein,Ariel,Lee,Haeduck,Wood, Bill
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The role of government and the private sector in fighting poverty (anglais)
This report examines the relative roles of the private and public sectors in implementing a two-track strategy to reduce poverty. This strategy aims for sustaining broad-based economic growth that makes...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WTP346 Date du document: 31 mars 1997 Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George,Nguyen Xuan Nguyen
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Human capital underdevelopment : the worst aspects (anglais)
The purpose of this report is to bring to the surface some of the worst aspects of human capital underdevelopment, by disaggregating to the extent possible the relevant indicators, thereby hopefully sensitizing...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 16129 Date du document: 30 novembre 1996 Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George
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The profitability of investment in education : concepts and methods (anglais)
This paper reviews the basic concept of the profitability of investment in education and enumerates the various techniques that have been used in the literature to estimate the rate of return to investment...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 15280 Date du document: 30 novembre 1995 Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George
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Building human capital for better lives (anglais)
The key words in today's development economics are human capital. More and more emphasis is being placed on investments in education, health, and nutrition as a means of bettering the lives of people in...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 14883 Date du document: 31 juillet 1995 Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George
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Indigenous people and poverty in Latin America : an empirical analysis (anglais)
Indigenous people make up a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. While the incidence of poverty is high in Latin America, it is particularly severe and deep among the indigenous population...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 13551 Date du document: 30 septembre 1994 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Indigenous people and poverty in Latin America (anglais)
The indigenous people of Latin America live in conditions of extreme poverty. While this may be common knowledge, this paper represents an initial attempt at documenting the socioeconomic conditions of...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 12734 Date du document: 28 février 1994 Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Operational education indicators (anglais)
The focus of analytical work in the field of education has changed over the years. The scope has expanded to include complementary fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology and political science...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 12524 Date du document: 30 septembre 1993 Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George
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Returns to investment in education : a global update (anglais)
The author updates compilations of rate of return estimates to investment in education published since 1985 - and discusses methodological issues surrounding those estimates. Some key patterns: among the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1067 Date du document: 31 janvier 1993 Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George
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Socioeconomic and ethnic determinants of grade repetition in Bolivia and Guatemala (anglais)
After reviewing the literature on repetition (students repeating grades in schools) in developing countries, the authors examine factors related to repetition in Bolivia and Guatemala. They develop a model...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1028 Date du document: 30 novembre 1992 Auteur: Patrinos,Harry Anthony,Psacharopoulos,George
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Case studies on women's employment and pay in Latin America (anglais)
Women's role in economic development can be examined from many different perspectives, including the feminist, anthropological, sociological, economic and legislative. This study employs an economic perspective...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 12175 Date du document: 30 novembre 1992 Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George,Tzannatos,Panagiotis Zafiris
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Ethnicity, education, and earnings in Bolivia and Guatemala (anglais)
Indigenous groups are often associated with poverty and so are low levels of education. Guatemala and Bolivia are the two Latin American countries in which the ethnic part of the population is proportionately...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1014 Date du document: 30 novembre 1992 Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George
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Education and the labor market in Uruguay (anglais)
This paper uses data from the 1989 Uruguayan Household Survey to investigate the relationship between earnings and education in that country. Mincerian earnings functions fitted to nearly 10,000 workers...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19740 Date du document: 30 juin 1992 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George,Velez Bustillo,Eduardo Miguel
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Achievement evaluation of Colombia's Escuela Nueva : is multigrade the answer? (anglais)
In the mid 1980s, half of Colombia's rural schools did not offer complete primary education and more than half of rural children between the ages of 7 and 9 had never attended school. Unitary schools -...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS896 Date du document: 30 avril 1992 Auteur: Psacharopoulos,George,Rojas,Carlos A.,Velez, Eduardo
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A cost benefit analysis of educational investment in Venezuela, 1989 (anglais)
The paper examines data from the 1989 Venezuelan household survey, to assess macro priorities among educational investments in the country, and indicates that when analyzing earnings by educational level...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 19738 Date du document: 30 novembre 1991 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fiszbein,Ariel,Psacharopoulos,George