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Oztunc, Hakan; Oo, Zar Chi; Serin, Zehra Vildan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study examines the extent to which women's education affects long-term economic growth in the Asia Pacific region. It focuses on the time period between 1990 and 2010, using data collected in randomly selected Asia Pacific countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Economic Development, Correlation, Foreign Countries
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Solomon, R. J. – Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2007
Background: A conceptual framework about protective factors (models protection, controls protection, support protection) and risk factors (models risk, opportunity risk, vulnerability risk) was employed to articulate the content of five psychosocial contexts of adolescent life--individual, family, peers, school, and neighborhood--in a study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Living Standards, Adolescents, Sexuality
Sharma, Satish – 1979
Two rural villages with similar characteristics were selected in Punjab (northern India) in order to study attitudes towards planned socio-economic development programs. All household heads (married males) in Bhagpura (123) and Khaira Bet (116) were interviewed; other data were derived separately. Program acceptance (modernism) in both villages…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attitude Change, Caste