An Economic Perspective on Religious Education: Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio This paper models the tradeoffs between education in secular subjects, formal and informal, and the formation of religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular education. Applications include the tension between science ...

This paper explores the possibilities and challenges for ethno-religious reconciliation through secondary school education in post-war Sri Lanka, with a specific focus on the Muslim and Tamil communities in the Northern city of Jaffna. In doing so, we position our paper within the growing field of 'education, conflict and emergencies' of which there has been a growing body of literature discuss...

despite the fact that under paragraph (a) of the article 55 of fourth development plan and the article 21 of fifth development plan of the constitution, the government is required to establish a skill training policy-making institution, efforts has so far been fruitless and the problems due to lack of such national institution still remain to be seen. this paper aims to study the current condit...

This paper reports on the findings of a focus group study that examines how women have experienced menarche at the personal level and in relation to the larger cultural, religious, and societal environment. Fifty-three women from 34 different countries were recruited in 13 focus groups. On the one hand, at the personal level, menarche stories shared in this study revealed salient themes concern...

This paper reviews some of the barriers to effective health education programmes in developing countries. Both published literature as well as unpublished personal experiences and discussions are drawn upon to identify four overlapping groups of reasons why health education programmes can fail. These are: failures in the planning process to apply epidemiological and behavioural sciences to the ...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to consider an international facility location problem under uncertainty and present an integrated model for strategic and operational planning. The paper offers two methodologies for the location selection decision. First the extended VIKOR method for decision making problem with interval numbers is presented as a methodology for strategic evaluation of po...