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Can Skill Diversification Improve Welfare in Rural Areas? Evidence from the Rural Skills Development Project in Bhutan
Chun, Natalie; Watanabe, Makiko - 2011
Income growth in rural areas may be one of the greatest challenges to further poverty reduction and economic development. Using a new survey of rural Bhutanese households we investigate the short-term economic, social, and psychosocial benefits of a vocational skills training program that was...
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Winners and losers : how sectors shape the developmental prospects of states
Shafer, D. Michael - 1994 - 1. publ.
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The political economy of public expenditure in aid recipient countries
Leiderer, Stefan - 2015
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Improving Aid Effectiveness in Aid-Dependent Countries : Lessons from Zambia
Beuran, Monica - 2011
Zambia was a middle-income country when it achieved independence from Great Britain in 1964. After decades of … international aid Zambia has become a low-income country, and its per capita GDP is only now returning to the levels it had reached … over forty years ago. While aid is far from the only variable at work in Zambia's development, its impact has been …
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Die Darstellung der Dritten Welt im Schulunterricht
Bülow, Dorothee; Decker-Horz, Sabine - 1984
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Atlas der Weltverwicklungen : ein Schaubilderbuch über weltweite Armut, globale Ökologie und lokales Engagement
Krämer, Georg (contributor); Eickmeyer, Gerhard (contributor) - 1992
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Allocation of Labour in Urban West Africa : Implication for Development Policies
Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2013
With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrollment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...
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Knowledge-Based Economic Development as a Unifying Vision in a Post-Awakening Arab World
Schwalje, Wesley - 2011
This article traces the evolution of knowledge-based economic development in the Arab World. In pursuing this objective, many countries in the region have made large state-driven human capital investments with the goals of job creation, economic integration, economic diversification,...
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Dissent 101 : teaching the "dangerous knowledge" of practices of activism
Huish, Robert - In: Canadian journal of development studies 34 (2013) 3, pp. 364-383
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Sector investments as part of national fiscal policy: Experience from ASIP in Zambia
Nokkala, Marko - 2001
study from the Agricultural Sector Investment Programme (ASIP) in Zambia, this paper illustrates the problems that can arise …
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