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Al-Samarrai, Samer; Zaman, Hassan – Education Economics, 2007
In 1994, the newly elected Government in Malawi abolished primary school fees. Using household survey data from 1990/91 and 1997/98, this paper assesses the impact this major policy change, combined with increased Government spending on education, has had on access to schooling by the poor. This paper shows that enrolment rates have increased…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Access to Education, Equal Education
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Lien, Donald – Education Economics, 2006
This paper constructs a theoretical model to evaluate the effects of borderless education on education resource allocation by a public university in a developing country. It is sometimes argued that, with sole emphasis and competence in global knowledge, borderless education will lead to the demise of local knowledge in the developing country. We…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Indigenous Knowledge, Developing Nations, Models