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Development Interventions and Agriculture Adaptation: A Social Network Analysis of Farmer Knowledge Transfer in Ghana

open access: yesAgriculture, 2016
Social ties play an important role in agricultural knowledge exchange, particularly in developing countries with high exposure to agriculture development interventions.
Kirstie Cadger   +3 more
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Survey Methodology: International Developments [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
Falling response rates and the advancement of technology have shaped the discussion in survey methodology in the last few years. Both led to a notable change in data collection efforts. Survey organizations try to create adaptive recruitment and survey designs and increased the collection of non-survey data for sampled cases.
openaire   +5 more sources

Who Controls the City in the Global Urban Era? Mapping the Dimensions of Urban Geopolitics in Beira City, Mozambique

open access: yesLand, 2019
In recent years, a new era of interventionism has emerged targeting the development of African cities, manifested in ‘fantasy’ urban plans, surging infrastructure investments and global policy agendas.
Murtah Shannon
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Indigenous Perspectives on Community Economic Development: A North-South Conversation

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2013
This article analyses an online forum on Indigenous Community-Based Economic Development (CED), in which twenty-two participants from Canada and Latin America shared and reflected on experiences ranging from cultural tourism in Bolivia to a food ...
Gretchen Hernandez
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Beyond Neglect: Long-term Care Research in Low and Middle Income Countries

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gerontology, 2014
Background: Long-term care (LTC) continues to be a neglected policy issue in most low and middle income countries. This paper assesses whether research on LTC contributes to or reinforces that neglect.
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
doaj   +1 more source

International Development Agenda in Resolutions of General Assembly and ECOSOC of the United Nations from 1946 to 2000

open access: yesVestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2019
The United Nations established after the Second World War by the winner countries was a key institution which formed the conceptual basis for international development possessed all necessary instruments and knowledge for its implementation in concrete ...
Alexander Alexandrovich Ignatov   +1 more
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Product Development and International Trade [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 1989
We develop a multicountry, dynamic general equilibrium model of product innovation and international trade to study the creation of comparative advantage through research and development and the evolution of world trade over time. In our model, firms must incur resource costs to introduce new products, and forward-looking potential producers conduct R &
Grossman, Gene M., Helpman, Elhanan
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An exploratory analysis of divergent patterns in reading progression during a tablet-based literacy program

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2023
We conducted exploratory research on divergent patterns in reading progression among early grade learners in a low-resourced community to identify key determinants of high versus low reading progress. The sample comprised 30 learners who were purposively
Sarah Bardack   +4 more
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Developing National and International Guidelines

open access: yesImmunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, 2021
Food allergy (FA) is considered an emerging public health problem. The development of evidence-based guidelines aims to help health care professionals in an accurate diagnosis and management of such diseases. It is proven that there are differences in the factors that determine FA in the different regions of the world.
Amal Assa'ad   +3 more
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Working on Disability in Country Programmes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
[Excerpt] The World Bank estimates that 20% of the world’s poorest people are disabled. This means that disabled people comprise one of the largest single groups of excluded and chronically poor people in the developing world.
Department for International Development
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