Making People Employable: Reforming Secondary Education in Pakistan
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Keywords
Human Capital; Skill Bias; Labour Productivity; Education Expenditures;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
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