Educational Tracking and Social Inequality in Mathematics Achievement in Comparative Perspective: Two Difference-in-Difference Designs

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman G. van de Werfhorst
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Achievement ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Difference In Difference ◽  
Educational Tracking

scholarly journals Macroeconomic Perspective on Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 216-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Bhaduri
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Technology Policy ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Foreign Market ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Moving Target ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Stage Of Development

Macroeconomic strategies and policies have differed significantly among Asian countries, and yet some common issues recur despite their immense diversity in inherited historical initial conditions, differences in political systems, geopolitical situations, location and size, and natural resource endowments. The chapter examines from a comparative perspective issues like unemployment, state versus market, domestic versus foreign market, degree of openness in trade, investment and finance, industrial and technology policy, decentralization, and economic and social inequality. While some countries have been more successful than others in dealing with these issues, our comparative perspective also shows development itself as a moving target, thus requiring flexible institutional and policy responses at each separate stage of development, which makes uniform guidelines misleadingly over-simplistic.

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