... Planning language, planning inequality: language policy in the community, London, Longman Rachal J R (1989), ‘The social context of adult and continuing education,’ in Merriam S B and Cunningham ... enables it to disseminate information, encourage participation in the education and economy of the communities To achieve its goal of disseminating useful information and eradicating poverty the adult ... vital in fighting poverty The adult education program can thus harness the local languages and indigenous knowledge of the minority and poor people and use them to mobilize the poor and minorities...
... squandered wealth were saved in interest-bearing accounts, rather than invested in low-yield activities, and that savings were in turn lent at interest to existing businesses short of capital, and ... the labor share, savings rate, income inequalityand the fraction of entrepreneurs observed in Thailand during the past two decades Indeed, with the understanding of Thailand's historical experience ... and wealth and this is true in the data: if past wealth were to increase by one million baht, business investment would increase by 40% Put another way, median business investment for firms in...
... that in the area of education South Africahas improved in net enrolment of learners in primary school and income poverty Hence, the claim that povertyhasbeen reduced and that, as a result in ... management and resolution at the sub-regional and continental levels, and to ensure that these mechanisms are used to restore and maintain peace • Promoting and protecting democracy and human rights in ... developing appropriate standards and targets for fiscal and monetary policies, and introducing appropriate institutional frameworks to achieve these standards • Instituting transparent legal and...
... B Adamo and Sara R Curran 79 Urbanization, Poverty Reduction, and Ecosystem Integrity 101 Peter Marcotullio, Sandra Baptista, and Alex de Sherbinin Introduction to Innovative Financing: The ... multidisciplinary and combine several usually separate branches of learning; they are far from being truly interdisciplinary by fostering increased interaction and integration of contributing disciplines ... 2002 Spotting expertise in a diverse and dynamic landscape Pages 96-104 in H Brookfield, C Padoch, H Parsons, and M Stocking, eds Cultivating Biodiversity: Understanding, analyzing and using agricultural...
... higher education accordingly EDUCATON IN RWANDA Mobilizing and Making Effective Use of Resources Support for educational development hasbeenand continues to be strong in Rwanda In the past few years ... Sierra Leone, and significantly worse than in Kenya, Benin, Lesotho, The Gambia, and Ghana Rwandas slowgrowth comes into even sharper relief in light of the record of growthin low-income Asia, ... rise in public spending in recent years has translated into a similar tendency in spending on education We then look at how the increase, if any, hasbeen distributed between capital investment and...
... falling into poverty by reducing their vulnerability Figure Three kinds of povertyreductionPoverty line Preventing poverty/ addressing vulnerability Alleviating poverty Lifting people out of poverty ... countries such as China and others in East and South-East Asia which have so dramatically succeeded in reducing poverty have done so by targeting povertyreduction It hasbeen argued by Mkandawire (2005) ... towards emphasising the ‘enabling environment’, and including the recent emphasis on ‘social capital’) basic needs provisioning, ‘social sector’ strengthening (direct provisioning and indirect influence...
... planning’ link to industry and commerce, and the reduction of donor funding, especially in 37 Ghana is an exception; it does propose raising the level of education and training of workers in the informal ... reaching the poor with training available in Mayoux’s Learning and Decent Work for All: new directions in training and education for pro-poor growth (2005) It positions the challenge of training ... of the enabling environment for farming Post-basic education and training have a key role in training agricultural professionals, who in turn have a key role in developing an enabling environment...
... Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (cf World Bank, 2004a) noted a definite link between skills training andpoverty reduction, and argued that skills training is good for growth, productivity and innovation ... of investing in skills training in Sub-Saharan Africa today: ‘Globalization and competition require higher skills and productivity among workers, both in modern companies andin the micro and ... technical/professional skills training (ie higherlevel training at tertiary level in TVET, including training of instructors/teachers; post-secondary agricultural education, training and research; high-level...
... Mobilizing and Developing Productive Capacity for PovertyReduction Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh King, K and Palmer, R (2005b) Education, training and their enabling ... rearing and vaccination, duck rearing and vaccination, incense-stick making and vegetable growing Duck vaccination proved particularly attractive, as graduates of the course were much in demand ... participate in financial decision-making, and confront literacy and numeracy barriers, among others Following skills training and literary/numeracy training, women have money in hand, may move...
... household incomes In detail, these FDI has played a key role in creating strong and sustainable productivity growthin their agricultural economies Large foreign investments in the food industry and input ... economies in export and income growthhasbeen more positive than Eastern Europe [2] Several factors contribute to this growth, including long-term investments in infrastructure, education and agricultural ... a binding constraint for food security in most countries in most years Trade and economic integration have mainly re-enforced these effects in direct and indirect ways at national, regional and...
... strengthen human resources by continuing in investing in all levels of education and training: basic education, vocational training and language training, especially English, and university education ... and clothing industry represents a key source of industrial employment, and is a leading industry for overall growthand industrialization Recently its export performance in this sector hasbeen ... immense, andhasbeen growing strongly in value terms Imports amounted to over USD 580 billion in 2006 and have been increasing at a stunning 43% per annually in value (Table 2) The largest importing...
... in a wide variety of evolutionary processes in which states are changed abruptly at certain moments of time, involving such fields as medicine and biology, economics, mechanics, electronics and ... following two conditions are satisfied (i) (x, y)T is piecewise continuous with first kind discontinuity at the points tk, k Î K Moreover, (x, y)T is right continuous at each discontinuity point ... Pk and Qk satisfy (referring to [28-37]) Zhang and Li Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:43 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/43 Pk (x∗ ) = and...
... longleaf pine seedlings are in the grass stage and increase height growth, New For 19 (2000) 279−290 [31] King J.S., Albaugh T.J., Allen H.L., Kress L.W., Stand-level allometry in Pinus taeda ... (LH and H treatment for the 1- and 2YS) to 0.74 and 0.76 (V and C for the 1- and 2YS respectively) and was significantly lower in the herbicide-treated plants compared to the plants growing in ... poplar growth Hybrid poplar diameter and height increments in both H and LH were respectively about and 2.5 times those in the other treatments (Fig 2a) in the plantation established in 2003...
... replicated twice within each CO treatment The seedling containers were assembled in racks and wrapped in aluminum foil to avoid root system overheating, and set in trays constantly containing a layer ... [26] The effect of CO in stimulating growthand increasing C/N ratios might affect C storage and nutrient cycling in this as in other Quercus species [5 1] An increase in the C/N ratios, due ... placed in the base of each tube Seedlings in the growth chamber were watered daily While plants were growing in the growth chamber, the first stage of growth was supported by adding commercial slow- release...
... andin the meantime, whilst we are preparing to get ready to begin to repent, every thing that in us lies to extinguish every good feeling, and cultivate and bring into action every bad feeling ... slaves were set free in a single day in the British West India Islands; and thus far, not a single life hasbeen lost, not a drop of blood shed, in consequence of that beneficent and righteous act ... for electioneering purposes sounding and resounding through our valleys and mountains in every direction The city of Richmond and the circumjacent country are in arms, and have been so for ten...
... sensitivity and specificity of anti-CCP2 antibody determination have been previously determined in our laboratory in Swiss andin French patients with RA andin controls [13,14] The sensitivity and specificity ... out in the African population to confirm these findings Interestingly, a recent report including Dutch patients with undifferentiated arthritis and comparing antiCCP2, anti-CCP3, anti-citrullinated ... having the highest PPV and NPV However, the number of patients and controls included in our study limits the interpretation of these results, and future studies including a larger number of individuals...