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Universities are uniquely positioned to provide the very best training opportunities to public child welfare workers. However, university-child welfare agency training partnerships require a significant commitment of time and resources by university personnel at a time of extensive state cuts to...
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Around 1800, transport infrastructure in Germany was based on traditional roads and waterways. The fundamental changes … political fragmentation. A twofold hypothesis will be examined: It is possible that traditional roads and waterways were more …
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In developing economies, foreign direct investment (FDI) plays a crucial role by providing resources that facilitate participation in international trade and support economic development. Focusing on Viet Nam as a case study, this research aims to quantify the distributional effects of the...
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complementarity of all-weather roads and a bicycle program in Bihar, India, which aimed to increase girls' secondary school enrollment …-weather roads. Their net secondary school enrollment rate increased by over 87 percent, reducing the respective gender education gap … allweather roads are not just complementary to the bicycle program but a precondition for its success. The findings highlight the …
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- from seventeenth-century shoguns to post-war planners - in transforming Japan's maritime infrastructure, its roads and …
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The paper examines the impact of a rural roads construction program in India on women's outcomes. While spatial … underlying gender norms. We identify the impact of the policy by exploiting the program rule that assigned roads based on the … village population. Using a two-way fixed effect methodology, we find that increase in rural roads construction lowers …
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farther away. Our estimated depletion rates near the two roads are at least 5 times higher relative to mean depletion rates in … cropping, and intensification of farming practices adjacent to the highway. These results suggest that the environmental cost … of new infrastructure building may be significant and needs to be incorporated in benefit-cost analysis. …
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This article examines how rural roads relate to differences in livelihood patterns, attitudes toward social change, and … land disputes in Baringo, Kenya. Although their direct use is limited for many residents, roads have a highly … differentiating impact. While some households orientate themselves toward roads, those relying more on (agro-)pastoralist livelihoods …
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median climate scenarios to maintain and repair roads as a result of damages directly related to temperature and …
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sector, dry-land agriculture, hydropower, roads infrastructure costs and sea level rise. These factors have not been … impacts are showed to be potentially significant particularly resulting from additional roads infrastructure costs and …
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