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Lift irrigation in West Africa: Challenges for sustainable local management
Purkey, D. R.; Vermillion, D. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621897
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An assessment of IDE-Nepal’s low cost drip irrigation technology. Poverty-Focused Smallholder Water Management: an IWMI research project supported by DFID. Final report document 2...
Kalu, I. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907363
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The changing face of irrigation in Kenya: opportunities for anticipating changes in Eastern and Southern Africa
Blank, H. G.; Mutero, C. M.; Murray-Rust, H. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132032
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Cross-national rankings of intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology
Blanden, Jo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other … second part of the paper looks for explanations for the differences in earnings and education persistence and finds that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126209
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The shifting balance of private and public welfare activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 2007
Edmiston, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who … updating the existing evidence with a snapshot of the welfare mix in 2007/2008 across five different welfare sectors: Education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744869
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The changing architecture of the UK welfare state
Hills, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This article looks at the way in which the role of the state has evolved within different aspects of welfare activity (broadly defined) in the United Kingdom since 1979 and forward to the possible impacts of the plans of the Coalition government that took office in 2010 for changing that role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745960
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Education and health knowledge: evidence from UK compulsory schooling reforms
Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index … due to the education reforms did not significantly affect health knowledge: a one-year increase in schooling is estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126452
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Technical note: Hydrology of the Lukanga Swamp, Zambia
McCartney, Matthew - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274023
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Crop-based irrigation operations in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Vol.III: data collection procedures and data sets. Final report
Afaq, R. M.; Strosser, P.; Rehman, S. U.; Hakim, A. H.; … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274024
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Alternate wet/dry irrigation in rice cultivation: a practical way to save water and control malaria and Japanese encephalitis?
van der Hoek, W.; Sakthivadivel, R.; Renshaw, M.; … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274038