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I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … extension of Indonesia's school term length in 1978-1979, a natural experiment that fits a regression discontinuity design. I …
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. The Japanese government implemented four positive aid sanctions in Asia, i.e. in Mongolia, Cambodia, Central Asian … despite various violations of human rights in Thailand and Indonesia. …
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This paper examines the effects of a longer school year in Indonesia on grade repetition, educational attainment …, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978 …
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representative sample of owners of firms in Indonesia, and using deaths of owners' family members as a measure of hardship, I …
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This paper provides an analysis of the modes of livelihood of Guinea-Bissau’s population. The country is poor and highly dependent on agriculture and extractive activities such as fishing. Yet beyond such general statements, it is useful to describe in qualitative terms the main activities...
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, forcibly displaced persons have little opportunity for expanding livelihoods, and are usually faced with realities that deny … Nepal, Bangladesh and Thailand in Asia. It primarily draws on UNHCR’s ‘Standards and Indicators’ data. Thematic areas …, and refugee livelihoods and coping strategies. The assessment of refugees’ living conditions proceeds along two different …
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for a book that provides a collection of papers on conflict, livelihoods, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau based on both a …
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sustainable livelihoods framework and collecting qualitative and quantitative data from two selected districts of Balangir and … the most vulnerable and to stimulate rural development, in particular promoting agriculturally linked livelihoods …
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Abstract This paper is about rural non-farm income and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa and the determinants of differentials access to rural non-farm incomes, with an overview of trends in the magnitude, and location of rural poverty. It also offers evidence that advances our...
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Abstract This paper is about rural non-farm income and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa and the determinants of differentials access to rural non-farm incomes, with an overview of trends in the magnitude, and location of rural poverty. It also offers evidence that advances our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111234