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Schooling has been shown to provide substantial externality benefits by increasing farm output and shifting the production frontier outwards. This paper investigates the role of schooling at the householdand site-levels in the adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia. We find that household-level education is important to the timing of adoption but less crucial to the question of whether a household has ever adopted fertiliser, i.e., early innovators tend to be...
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Education will have externality effects in agriculture if, in the course of conducting their own private economic activities, educated farmers raise the productivity of uneducated farmers with whom they come into contact. This paper seeks to determine the potential size and source of such benefits for rural areas of Ethiopia. Average and stochastic frontier production function methodologies are employed to measure productivity and efficiency of farmers. In each case, internal and external...
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Research Article| April 01, 2000 Largest known historical eruption in Africa: Dubbi volcano, Eritrea, 1861 Pierre Wiart; Pierre Wiart 1Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Clive Oppenheimer Clive Oppenheimer 1Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article...
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A study of the remote Dubbi volcano, located in the northeastern part of the Afar triangle, Eritrea, was carried out using JERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery. It investigated the last known eruption of Dubbi volcano in 1861, the only volcano in Afar for which historical reports indicate a major explosive eruption. Various image processing techniques were tested and compared in order to map different volcanic units, including effusive and explosive...
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Journal Article Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformations in Egypt Get access Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformations in Egypt by Gregory Starrett. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998. 324 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.00. Carrie Rosefsky Wickham Carrie Rosefsky Wickham Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 1, Spring...
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The National Consortium for Study in Africa (NCSA) grew out of a concern about the paucity of high-quality study-abroad opportunities in Africa for North American undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Africa is the second largest continent in geographic size and the ancestral home of 15 percent of the U.S. population, a demographic segment that has lived in the United States longer than most European immigrants. As a result, much of American art, music, language, and culture has...
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This essay takes its title from a short story by Zoe Wicomb (1987), so as to begin to locate and find a way of expressing the experiences of reading, discussing and teaching a selection of South African women's writing to student groups in the UK. This paper looks specifically at teaching South African women's writing on a 'Black and Asian women's writing'module, with some reference to other classes in which South African women's writing has been part of this study. In doing so,...
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This thesis explores in empirical fashion the contribution made by St Peter's Secondary School to South African literary history. It takes as its starting point the phenomenon of the first black autobiographies having been published within a ten-year period from 1954 to 1963, with all but one of the male writers receiving at least part of their post-primary schooling at St Peter's School in Johannesburg. Among the texts, repositioned here within their educational context, are Tell Freedom by...
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This paper represents a case study on an internal human resource development initiative, based around the experience of a textile firm in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It highlights some of the limits and possibilities of such training in sectors facing particularly acute crises of competitiveness operating in transitional economies.
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In the late 1980's, a realisation that the western education system adopted in Papua New Guinea at the time of Independence had failed to serve the nation well, led to a period of education reform. How PNG has sought to come to terms with associated issues and chalenges are explored. The findings reveal much about the capacity of individuals and institutions to respond to a post-colonial world.