Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the impact of formal schooling only and, as a consequence, have seldom considered skills or alternative routes to acquiring skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper...

Formal methods play essential roles in education and training of software engineering. Besides the fact that formal methods themselves can be direct solutions to problems in development, many insights into modelling, specification, verification and validation can be provided. On the other hand, difficulties lie in delivering these direct or indirect values to the industry. This paper reports an...

The study investigated the loan repayment, its determinants and socio-economic characteristics of microfinance loan beneficiaries in the Southeast states of Nigeria. It was carried out in three states of the five southeast states. Using a multistage sampling technique, a total of 144 loan beneficiaries in the three segments of MFIs, namely; formal (commercial and development banks); semi-formal...

Today, the degree to which such processes influence the way we think and learn largely depends on our ability to clarify for ourselves the differences between our received wisdom (from our formal, mainly western education) and the wisdom of the (home) cultures in which we grew up and were socialised, and from which we continue to learn important knowledge, skills and values. In the context of f...

Higher education (or more years of formal schooling) is widely associated with better health, but the underlying causes of this association are unclear. In this study, we tested our schooling-decision-making model, which posits that formal education fosters intellectual ability, which in turn provides individuals with enduring competencies to support better health-related behaviors. Using data ...

In Pakistan, about 22.8 million children of school going age are out which is very alarming situation and second highest number in the World. Major portion these OOSCs belong to deprived, marginalized community Pakistan. Although Pakistan has promised under article 25A educate all boys girls but this yet not be meet due financial constraints. So fill gap an alternative comprehensive system need...

The integration of indigenous knowledge/languages in formal education is a contentious issue in post-colonial Africa. For historical and economic reasons, these are devalued in the formal education system. We argue that appropriate use of indigenous knowledge/languages can empower African students academically even in typically “Western” disciplines, such as Computer Science. We discuss the pot...