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Malawi's education system is hampered by problems of poor access, high repetition and dropout rates, poor infrastructure and inequality. To address this situation the new Government of Malawi has made education, particularly primary education, its top priority. After public recurrent spending on education surged and primary-level fees were abolished in 1994, Malawian households responded and primary-level enrollments jumped by more than 60 percent. This study uses the Benefit Incidence...
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The impacts of global climate change on forest distribution was evaluated using the Holdridge life zone and GISS general circulation model scenarios.Across Zimbabwe, 17 to 18% of the total land area is projected to shift from subtropical thorn woodland and subtropical dry forest to tropical very dry forest under the GISS scenario.The projected shift in forest distribution is attributable to a future decline in precipitation patterns and an increase in ambient temperature.
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The Restructuring of South African Education and Training in Comparative ContextChisholm, L. - 1996
South Africa’s first democratic election was a watershed in the country’s educational history. In the first instance, it signalled a move away from the determination of policy by a white minority state for a black majority; in the second, official state education policy, historically geared towards building a united white nation, was now re-oriented to redressing inequalities and ‘nation-building’ between white and black; in the third, instead of being predicated on exclusion and denial of...
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Face aux risques graves de secheresse durant le cycle vegetatif de l'arachide, les selectionneurs jouent sur la precocite varietale (maximum 80 ou 90 jours selon la partie du bassin arachidier) ainsi que sur la capacite de resistance au manque d'eau. L'amelioration genetique conduite depuis 1985 est de type pluridisciplinaire, incluant des etudes agro-physiologiques sur le systeme racinaire (volume, forme), la regulation stomatique et la resistance membranaire. La precocite est de nature...
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Is there any empirical evidence that firms become more efficient after becoming exporters? Do firms that become exporters generate positive spillovers for domestically-oriented producers in their industry or region? In this paper we analyze the causal links between exporting and productivity using firm-level panel data from three semi-industrialized economies. Representing export market participation and production costs as jointly dependent autoregressive processes, we look for evidence...
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There is a negative correlation between body weight and income in the United States, and epidemic numbers of people diet to become thin. In developing nations, on the other hand, there is a positive correlation between weight and income, and fatness is associated with wealth and abundance. Although these differing cross-cultural trends have been documented by anthropologists, there has been minimal cross-cultural research on attitudes toward obesity and thinness and corresponding dieting...
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, a number of adverse conditions have placed children at high risk, including persistent and worsening poverty, an alarming pace of economic change, rapid population growth, increasing urbanization, a changing family structure, and growing numbers of orphaned refugees and displaced women and children. For many children, primary school interventions are too late to prevent irreversible disability or to allow for the development of full adult capacity. Implementing a...
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Using qualitative and quantitative methods, this article examines one large, racially mixed, urban California school community's response to the growing tension between excellence and equity in public education; and concurrently describes how African American students in this setting experienced school reform in general and detracking reform in particular. At the school in question, fundamental changes in the structure, curriculum, and instructional practices were effected for the...
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Using qualitative and quantitative methods, this article examines one large, racially mixed, urban California school community's response to the growing tension between excellence and equity in public education; and concurrently describes how African American students in this setting experienced school reform in general and detracking reform in particular. At the school in question, fundamental changes in the structure, curriculum, and instructional practices were effected for the...
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Two hundred and fifty-four African-American students volunteered to examine the relationship between death anxiety and engagement in lethal behavior. A three-part questionnaire was administered: Parts I and II of the questionnaire consisted of the Revised Death Anxiety Scale (RDAS) and the Lethal Behaviors Scale (LBS). Part III of the questionnaire consisted of questions about demography. The research was designed to assess the effect of gender, age, income, and geographic location on the...
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(1996). Listen to the children's voices: The role of Media Education in developing critical literacy in South African school children. Continuum: Vol. 9, Media Education, pp. 85-93.