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    • Addresing the Education Puzzle : The Distribution of Education and Economic Reform 

      López, Ramón; Thomas, Vinod; Wang, Yan (World Bank, 1998-12)
      No country has achieved sustained economic development without substantially investing in human capital. Previous studies have shown the handsome returns to various forms of basic education, research, training, learning-by-doing, ...
    • Measuring Education Inequality : Gini Coefficients of Education 

      Thomas, Vinod; Wang, Yan; Fan, Fibo (The World Bank, 2000-12-15)
      Equal access to education is among the basic human rights and a component of well being. Yet, the educational gaps between various groups in many countries are staggering. This paper employs an education Gini index to ...