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aspects of new agricultural technology interventions and the policy processes of food- and cash-based education incentive …. The paper then examines the motivation and policy processes of the Food for Education program and its subsequent … replacement, the cash-based Primary Education Stipend program. The study reviews similarities and differences among selected …
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This paper investigates the long-term impact of Bangladeshs Primary Education Stipend (PES) program on a range of …
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vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
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among its individual members. They look at how these differences in land holdings and education affect what sons and …
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Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years. Overall, the studies find that investments in...
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The global financial crisis has intensified the problems of over-indebtedness, especially for the poor. In this context, the microfinance industry is giving more attention to building their customers’ financial capabilities, designing products that respond to their needs and preferences, and...
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transition to nonagricultural labor markets depend on the distance to economic centers and the household education level. In … particular, postprimary education significantly increases the benefit from local spatial connectivity improvement in remote areas … and promotes labor transition to nonagricultural sectors. Education and local road quality are complementary, mutually …
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specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the …
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, Hilary Sims Feldstein, and Guadalupe Duron Brief 6. Education / Elizabeth M. King and Harold Alderman Brief 7. Labor Markets …
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The number of higher-education institutions and the students enrolled in them has grown rapidly throughout Africa since … developed and other-developing country norms. Funding for higher-education in Africa kept pace with the expanding institutional … development of the agricultural sciences has matched the general pattern of development of the higher-education sector. Three …
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