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  • Stepping Up Skills in Urban Ghana

    Snapshot of the STEP Skills Measurement Survey

    by Peter Darvas, Marta Favara, Tamara Arnold ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Human Development
    The Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP) Survey is an initiative of the World Bank in cooperation with other development partners and nongovernmental agencies and carried out in more than 14 countries globally. In Ghana, the first phase of the survey focusing on adults in urban communities was carried out in cooperation with the University of Ghana's Institute of Statistical, Social, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sharing Higher Education's Promise beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Peter Darvas, Shang Gao, Yijun Shen, Bilal Bawany ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Human Development
    Despite a spectacular expansion of the higher education sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, the supply of tertiary education has generally failed to keep pace with demand, and the region continues to lag behind all other regions in terms of access to tertiary education. This is in part a consequence of deeply entrenched patterns of inequitable access to higher education, and the perpetuation of what ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Demand and Supply of Skills in Ghana

    How Can Training Programs Improve Employment and Productivity?

    by Peter Darvas, Robert Palmer ...
    Series series World Bank Studies
    Skills development in Ghana encompasses foundational skills, transferable/soft-skills, and technical and vocational skills. This report focuses on one segment of this skills development system: formal and informal technical and vocational education and training (TVET) at the pre-tertiary level. TVET represents a major intersection between education, youth and the labor market. The government has ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Basic Education beyond the Millennium Development Goals in Ghana

    How Equity in Service Delivery Affects Educational and Learning Outcomes

    by Peter Darvas, David Balwanz ...
    Series series World Bank Studies
    Ghana is on a strong trajectory toward solidifying its middle income status. Today, more children than at any time in the history of Ghana have access to basic and secondary education. Over the past decade, incidence of extreme poverty has been cut in half amid strong economic growth. Ghana's recent achievements point to the possibility of more fully realizing the human potential of all ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Development Economics

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    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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