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Education in every sense is one of the fundamental factors of development. No country can achieve sustainable economic … development without substantial investment in human capital. Education enriches people’s understanding of themselves and world. It … improves the quality of their lives and leads to broad social benefits to individuals and society. Education raises people …
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As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...
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This article deals with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on poverty and education in Africa. It considers the scale … and scope of the pandemic and its anticipated impact on education systems in heavily infected sub-Saharan African … (SADC) region. The paper concludes by suggesting how the education sector can improve its management response to the …
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said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a … poverty and education and many more international studies revealed that improvement in education reducing poverty resulted in … (education) in India with the emphasis on State wise analysis. The elasticity concept has used to study the relationship between …
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This study has explored the impact of the rise in food prices on the education of children in the poor and vulnerable … other non-rice food items or/and by reducing the non-food expenditure, i.e., expenses on their children education. High … the households could not continue to bear the expenses on their children’s education. A significant proportion of these …
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This paper analyses the impact of adverse economic shocks on human capital formation in the case of India. It uses the extended theoretical model of Basu and Van (1998). The study has been carried out for the period between 1999 and 2002 and covers 385 districts. The results show that during a...
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Development Goals (MDGs) and ‘Education for All’ program, education is promulgated as the primary weapon against poverty … prevalence. Hence it is important to seek out the effect of different levels of education upon poverty in Pakistan. This study … evaluates the effect of different levels of education, experience and gender of the employed individuals (employers, self …
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- contrast with the Uruguayan highly centralized and inflexible public education system. Our results shed light on new approaches … to education that may contribute to improve opportunities for disadvantaged adolescents in developing countries. Unlike …
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schools; (5) Parents using faith-inspired schools place a stronger emphasis on religious education and moral values; and (6 …
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