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Social innovation in education: BRAC boat schools in Bangladesh

Ahmed, Jashim Uddin; Ashikuzzaman, N. M.; Mahmud, Aditi … - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 7 (2017) 20, pp. 1-14

Bangladesh consists of wetlands that pose great threat to the public primary education services. BRAC (Building Resources Across Communities) - a non-governmental organization, therefore, took the opportunity to serve unprivileged children by implementing boat schools model in solving barriers...

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Problems in universalization of primary education in Pakistan

Khan, Shahinshah Babar - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 4 (2010) 2, pp. 147-155

"Education for all" is a global slogan and government of Pakistan is committed to achieve the goal of Universalization of primary education. For this government is establishing new schools in remote areas so that more and more children can get access to school. Public-private partnership and...

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Role of school council in the performance of primary level students

Habib, Zahida - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 8 (2014) 1, pp. 24-29

In this era of globalization school council plays a vital role towards the performance of students in primary education. Comparative research may help to assess the pace of project development, and explore the impediments for adopting timely remedial measures. This research aims to explore the...

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The return on investment for education in Pakistan

Nazar, Raima; Chaudhry, Imran Sharif - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 11 (2017) 3, pp. 1069-1083

The study provides estimates of the private returns to education in Pakistan by using a random sample of 850 wage earners including male and female from different professions between age group 15-65 years from Multan district. This study provided a novel contribution by providing an in-depth...

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Continuance intention of e-learning: The condition and its connection with open innovation

Suzianti, Amalia; Paramadini, Sabrina Ayu - In: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and … 7 (2021) 1, pp. 1-14

Recently having increased every year, in 2017, e-learning's worldwide average growth rate was 7.9% with a worldwide market of USD 52.5 billion. Holding all nations' eighth highest e-learning growth rate, Indonesia had a market of USD 12.2 billion, with a growth rate of 25% in 2017. Obviously,...

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A model of quality assurance in primary education management. The case of Greece

Kaplani, Gianna; Zafiropoulos, Kostas - In: Cogent Business & Management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-18

The paper validates a framework which is based on EFQM and associates quality criteria to results and outputs, reflecting the organization readiness and efficiency. The paper studies the views of school principals of Kindergarten and Elementary Schools in Greece. A nationwide survey provides a...

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How much does economic growth contribute to child stunting reductions?

Mary, Sébastien - In: Economies 6 (2018) 4, pp. 1-18

The role of economic growth in reducing child undernutrition remains an open and highly debated question that holds important implications for food security strategies. The empirical evidence has been quite contrasted, primarily in regard to the magnitude of the impacts. Yet, most studies have...

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Factors affecting nutritional attitudes among university adults

Nasir, Jamal Abdul; Tahir, M. H. - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 11 (2017) 2, pp. 644-652

The problem of malnutrition has never been good and the information regarding nutrition would be advantageous … particularly in case of Pakistan because significant progress of nutrition awareness at regional level is scarce. The focus of this … study is to assess the nutritional believes, practice, awareness and participation of university adults towards nutrition. A …

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The Nobel Laureates' campaign supporting GMOs

Roberts, Richard J. - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 3 (2018) 2, pp. 61-65

More than 800 million people suffer from hunger in the world. Using modern plant breeding methods to generate so-called GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), agricultural scientists have shown that crop yields and nutritional quality can be greatly improved. Many GMO varieties have been...

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Possible consequences of nutritional improvements for the economic development

Hemmer, Hans-Rimbert - In: Intereconomics 14 (1979) 4, pp. 185-189

Studies of the relationship of nutrition and economic development have hitherto largely focused on the question how the … state of nutrition has changed in consequence of economic developments. The analysis concentrated on the “passive role of … nutrition”. In the following article the question is reversed: what possibilities exist for influencing the development process …

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