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Can public works programs reduce youth crime? : evidence from Papua New Guinea’s urban youth employment project
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy; Naidoo, Darian; Newhouse, David Locke - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663510
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Determinants of tobacco consumption in Papua New Guinea : challenges in changing behaviors
Hou, Xiaohui; Xu, Xiaochen; Anderson, Ian - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295796
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A randomized evaluation of a low-cost and highly scripted teaching method to improve basic early grade reading skills in Papua New Guinea
Macdonald, Kevin; Binh Thanh Vu - 2018
Early grade literacy skills are crucial for children's future education and ultimately their contribution to human capital formation and economic development. A significant challenge in development is identifying low-cost interventions to improve early literacy skills in contexts characterized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871278
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The impact of exogenous shocks on households in the Pacific : a micro-simulation analysis
Cororaton, Caesar B.; Knight, David S. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436626
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The economic consequences of “brain drain” of the best and brightest : microeconomic evidence from five countries
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J. - 2010
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Recall length and measurement error in agricultural surveys
Wollburg, Philip; Tiberti, Marco; Zezza, Alberto - 2020
. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228617
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The nutrition sensitivity of food and agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe; Josephson, Anna; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019
Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008111
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Generating gridded agricultural gross domestic product for Brazil : a comparison of methodologies
Thomas, Timothy S.; You, Liangzhi; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; … - 2019
This paper examines two new methods to generate gridded agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and compares the results with a traditional method. In the case of Brazil, these two new methods of spatial disaggregation and cross-entropy outperform the prediction of agricultural GDP from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114017
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The state of land use in Northern Nigeria : a landsat-based mapping framework
Sedano, Fernando; Molini, Vasco; Azad, M Abul Kalam - 2020
thematic detail, resulting in a more precise characterization of agriculture in the region. The map reveals that agriculture is … reported national average for Nigeria (38.4 percent). Irrigated agriculture covers nearly 2.2 percent of the total area …, reaching nearly 20 percent of the cultivated land when traditional floodplain agriculture systems are included, which is above …
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