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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava +2 more
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Leadership for community: Learning from new rural migrant schools in China
International Journal of Chinese EducationMainland China’s new rural migrant schools are an educational reform situated in national aims of revitalised rural communities, education, and economy.
Li Huan Chen, Priya Goel
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Myths and Realities of Rural Schools. The Voice of Families and Teachers
Revista Electrónica EducareIntroduction. By invoking Shakespeare’s famous query, ‘to be or not to be, that is the question,’ this study examines rural schools by exploring the beliefs and myths surrounding them and contrasting these perceptions with the realities of daily life in ...
Manuela Raposo-Rivas +4 more
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Achievement evaluation of Colombia's Escuela Nueva : is multigrade the answer? [PDF]
In the mid 1980s, half of Colombia's rural schools did not offer complete primary education and more than half of rural children between the ages of 7 and 9 had never attended school.
Psacharopoulos, George +2 more
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Secondary schooling and rural youth transitions in Lesotho and Zimbabwe [PDF]
, 2004 Based on case studies centred on two rural secondary schools in Lesotho and Zimbabwe, this paper examines the gendered impacts of schooling on young people’s transitions to adulthood.
Batezat, E. +19 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang +2 more
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The role of school quality in determining educational outcomes has received much research attention in the United States. However, in developing countries, where a significant part of the school age population never attends school, policymakers must ...
Handa, Sudhanshu, Simler, Kenneth
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MAKING RURAL SCHOOLS MORE USEFUL FOR THE COMMUNITY; PREVENTION OF BRAIN DRAIN
Pedagogik: Jurnal Pendidikan, 2017 Rural schools in Indonesia face various problems that are uniquely rural. A comprehensive report on rural schools in Indonesia has found high rates of poverty and low levels of educational attainment (Improving People’s Access Towards More Qualified ...
Sugiono Sugiono
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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The Political Economy of School Size: Evidence from Chilean Rural Counties [PDF]
Public schools in Chile receive a per-student subsidy depending on enrollment, and are managed by local governments that operate under soft budget constraints. In this paper, we study the effects of this system on per-student expenditures.
Carlos Rodríguez +2 more
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