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Changes in rural poverty in Perú 2004-2012

Morley, Samuel - In: Latin American Economic Review 26 (2017) 1, pp. 1-20

This paper disaggregates the various sources of rural income growth in Peru between 2004 and 2012 and shows that about 80% of the increase came from rising earnings and only 15% from transfer programs. This increase in rural earnings was not led by agriculture. It was mainly because of a general...

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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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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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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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Disability and labor market outcomes

Jones, Melanie - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

In Europe, about one in eight people of working age report having a disability; that is, the presence of a long … discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry into work, disability is associated with substantial and enduring employment … social and economic costs of disability disadvantage. …

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Disability and employment across Central and Eastern European Countries

Mussida, Chiara; Sciulli, Dario - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-34

Countries by estimating the effects of disability on employment probabilities for six Central and Eastern European Countries. We … find that disability negatively affects the employment probabilities of disabled people, especially those with severe … disabilities. The effects of disability persist even after controlling for disability benefits, signaling a predominant role for …

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How do people with disabilities cope while waiting for disability insurance benefits?

Coe, Norma B.; Lindner, Stephan; Wong, Kendrew; Wu, April - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-27

Disability Insurance waiting time varies from a few months to several years. We estimate the causal effect of longer …

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