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Childhood Poverty and Education in Bangladesh: Policy implications for disadvantaged children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper is based on a recent study carried out as a part of the Visiting Research Fellowship at the UNICEF Office of Research. It offers a theoretical understanding of childhood poverty and educational exclusion, building on the empirical findings of ...
Shohel, M. Mahruf C.
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Are all meats substitutes? A basket‐and‐expenditure‐based approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the relationship among animal‐based meat and plant‐based meat alternatives (PBMAs) using a basket‐and‐expenditure‐based choice experiment. In particular, we examine whether animal‐based meat products are substitutes or complements with PBMAs.
Clinton L. Neill, Logan L. Britton
wiley   +1 more source

Connected lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities? A scoping study to explore understandings and experiences of ‘community’ among LGBT people [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study examined understandings and experiences of LGBT communities, and assessed implications for health and wellbeing, employing a literature review, online survey and indepth interviews and discussion groups.
Formby, Eleanor
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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Open and Distance Learning for Refugees and Marginalised Communities: A Pathway to Global Educational Equity

open access: yesWest African Journal of Open and Flexible Learning
Education is still a basic human right and a key component of sustainable development, economic empowerment, and social inclusion. Displacement, poverty, conflict, discrimination, and geographic isolation, however, create structural obstacles for ...
Chinedu I. Okeke   +1 more
doaj  

Equality and Non-discrimination (EQND) in Sanitation Programmes at Scale (Part 1) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A well-facilitated Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) programme that pro-actively considers and involves people who might be disadvantaged has been shown to have many benefits.
Sarah House, Sue Cavill, Suzanne Ferron
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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