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Brock, Colin; Crossley, Michael – Comparative Education, 2013
Comparative research on education in small states has attracted international attention since the mid-1980s when the Commonwealth sponsored a number of seminal meetings and publications, and became a key advocate for the advancement of such work. This article considers the place of different dimensions of scale in comparative research; re-examines…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Browne, Angela W.; Barrett, Hazel R. – Comparative Education, 1991
In sub-Saharan Africa, aggregate data show that female literacy is associated with higher agricultural productivity and is more strongly correlated than GNP with mortality and immunization rates of young children. A case study of Gambia confirms these relationships, with high female illiteracy apparently impeding both human and economic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Child Health, Developing Nations