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Education's Role in Economic Development and in Assisting the Poor
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2005
Much faith has been put in the increased supply of education as a means to promote national economic development and as … education of their workforce depends on the availability of other forms of capital to complement the use of its educated … and it is appropriate for less developed countries to spend relatively less on education. The contribution of education to …
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Gender Issues in Rural Eastern India Revealed by Field Interviews: Tribal and Non-Tribal Responses
Tisdell, Clement A.; Roy, Kartik C. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2009
Reports responses to interviews conducted in three rural villages in Eastern India in January 2000 as well as replies to questions asked at a forest meeting in West Bengal of groups/persons interested in rural women and development. The questions were designed to provide information on...
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Gender, Marital Status, Farm Size and other Factors Influencing the Extent of Cash Cropping in Kenya: A Case Study
Kiriti, Tabitha; Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2002
This article examines the effects of commercialisation of agriculture on land use and work patterns by means of a case study in the Nyeri district in Kenya. The study uses cross sectional data collected from small-scale farmers in this district. We find that good quality land is allocated to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008916053
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Closing the Gender Gap in Bangladesh: Inequality in Education, Employment and Earnings
Mohammad, Hossain; Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2003
education as well as gender earnings differentials at the macro level. The study finds evidence of growing commercialisation of … remarkable improvements in women’s educational attainments compared to men. Further, female access to education is found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145037
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Gender Inequality in India: Evidence from a Rural Survey in West Bengal
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2000
Notes the unfavourable female-male ratio in India and its declining trend. In addition, the convergence of this ratio for the scheduled castes towards that of the general casts is noted as well as the slight decline in this ratio for scheduled tribals. A reason for this trend is suggested....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835500
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Globalisation, Institutions and Empowerment of Women in Africa: Kenya's Experience
Kiriti, Tabitha; Tisdell, Clement A.; Roy, Kartik C. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2001
In male dominated societies like Kenya, men's superior status leading to power over women and control of valued resources, is supported by laws and policies that spell out and legitimise men's privileged and dominant status and is justified by religious, traditional, moral, and/or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853647
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Globalisation, Development and Poverty in the Pacific Islands: The Situation of the Least Developed Pacific Island Nations
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2001
Under pressure from external forces, involvement of Pacific Island nations in processes of globalisation and associated structural adjustment policies is being accelerated. Conditional aid and financial assistance from Bretton Woods' institutions and their 'relatives' such as the Asian...
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An Assessment of the UN's Millennium Development Goals and its Millennium Declaration
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2006
achieving universal primary education, by promoting greater equality, and by satisfying particular health goals. In addition …
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Bangladesh's Performance and the Millennium Development Goals: A Sketch of Progress
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2006
and hunger in Bangladesh, access to education and gender equality in Bangladesh, child mortality and maternal health, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010920464
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Sustainable Development and Human Resource Capital
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2000
human beings e.g. in their education and health. But for a considerable period in the past economists stressed the … capital. Nevertheless, in the second half of the 20th century the importance of human resource capital (particularly education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835496