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What is keeping the poor out of college? : enrollment rates, educational barriers and college matriculation in China
Wang, Xiaobing; Chengfang, Liu; Zhang, Linxiu; Renfu, Luo; … - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 3 (2011) 2, pp. 131-149
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What is keeping the poor out of college?
Wang, Xiaobing; Liu, Chengfang; Zhang, Linxiu; Luo, Renfu; … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 2, pp. 131-149
Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014689619
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Rural people's perception of income adequacy in China
Gustafsson, Björn; Yue, Ximing - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 4 (2012) 3, pp. 264-280
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667299
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Rural people's perception of income adequacy in China
Gustafsson, Bjorn; Yue, Ximing - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 3, pp. 264-280
implications – The findings suggest that poverty lines for rural China preferably should consider not only spatial differences in … household members. The paper also aims to find out how poverty lines and poverty counts derived from people's perception relate … to what has been previously reported. Design/methodology/approach – The Subjective Poverty Line (SPL) methodology is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814702
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Rural people's perception of income adequacy in China
Gustafsson, Bjorn; Yue, Ximing - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 3, pp. 264-280
implications – The findings suggest that poverty lines for rural China preferably should consider not only spatial differences in … household members. The paper also aims to find out how poverty lines and poverty counts derived from people's perception relate … to what has been previously reported. Design/methodology/approach – The Subjective Poverty Line (SPL) methodology is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014689658
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Financial capability among low-income households in rural parts of Poland
Potocki, Tomasz - In: Argumenta oeconomica 43 (2019) 2, pp. 85-114
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284877
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Legacy and athlete preferences at Harvard
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2019
The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean's interest list, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118873
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Rural poverty alleviation through NGO interventions in Bangladesh: how far is the achievement?
Ullah, A.K.M. Ahsan; Routray, Jayant K. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) April, pp. 237-248
Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse the current poverty situation and poverty alleviation efforts of the NGOs in … that the majority of the NGO beneficiaries remained below the poverty line in terms of income and the overwhelming majority … employment opportunity. The qualitative data on the perception of beneficiaries on the causes of poverty endorse this finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081319
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Rural poverty alleviation through NGO interventions in Bangladesh: how far is the achievement?
Ahsan Ullah, A.K.M.; Routray, Jayant K. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) 4, pp. 237-248
Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse the current poverty situation and poverty alleviation efforts of the NGOs in … that the majority of the NGO beneficiaries remained below the poverty line in terms of income and the overwhelming majority … employment opportunity. The qualitative data on the perception of beneficiaries on the causes of poverty endorse this finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805382
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Rural credit: a source of sustainable livelihood of rural India
Akoijam, Sunildro L.S. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2012) 1, pp. 83-97
tool for enhancing production and productivity and for poverty alleviation. Further it highlights some of the strategies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805774