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The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and the resulting falls in demand due both to uncertainty and policy interventions such as lockdowns…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Morgan, Peter J.|Trinh, Long Q.

We provide the first evidence that low- and middle-income countries with high education levels were more successful in developing…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Asian Development Bank

This brief provides an overview of ADB’s school education support for its developing member countries and discusses lessons learned and…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Tulivuori, Jukka

Other

18 Mar 2021

The Asia and Pacific region is home to almost 4.5 billion people—up to 60% of the world’s population—taking up about 30% of the world’s…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Asian Development Bank

The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and the resulting falls in demand due both to uncertainty and policy interventions are having a…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Morgan, Peter J.|Long, Trinh Q.

Cambodia

09 Mar 2021

In the highly competitive labour market of Bangladesh, workers are unable to find the right jobs and employers are also unable to find…

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Centre for Policy Dialogue

Khatun, Fahmida|Saadat, Syed Yusuf

In an ADB Brief produced in early 2020, we introduced compelling global evidence from an innovation in social protection: the graduation…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Schelzig, Karin|Jilani, Amir

This brief presents evidence on the impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on technical and vocational education and training (TVET)…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Hayashi, Ryotaro|Garcia, Marito|Jayasundara, Halgamage Don Sudarshana Anojan|Balasuriya, Amila|Hirokawa, Tatsuya

Sri Lanka

08 Mar 2021

This brief presents evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on TVET in Sri Lanka using two primary datasets. First, this brief uses TVET…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Hayashi, Ryotaro|Jayasundara, Halgamage Don Sudarshana Anojan|Garcia, Marito|Balasuriya, Amila|Hirokawa, Tatsuya

We use two waves of data from the India Human Development Survey to investigate the effect of family size on (i) parental expenditures…