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Not much is known about the process of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in the developing world, mainly due to the lack of longitudinal datasets. There is however reason to believe that the high degree of inequality as well as stratification prevalent in developing countries may contribute to greater persistence in the intergenerational transmission of opportunities. If ...

the current study investigates the concept of educational justice as well as principles for the distribution of educational good from the view points of john rawls as the representative of liberalism and michacl walzer as the representative of communitarianism. to this end, the current study has applied methods of conceptual analysis as well as comparative analysis. the obtained results show th...

Despite the growing prominence of theoretical analysis of inequality of opportunity over the past twenty years, empirical work towards the normative evaluation of real-world policies has been minimal. This paper seeks to address this issue. It proposes a normative framework to model the influence of educational policy on health outcomes, grounded in Roemer’s model of equality of opportunity. We...

Guyana, a lower income country that has a limited communication infrastructure and occupies an area of 216,000 km, is home to a population of 750,000. While 90 percent of the population occupies the narrow and relatively easily accessible coastal plain, the remaining population is sparsely distributed in the mountainous and forested hinterland which, more than any other part of the country, is ...