Worlds Apart? Ethnographic Reflections on "Effective Literacy" and Intrahousehold Externalities

World Development

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 532-541

  Maddox, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; effective literacy; ethnography; gender relations; intrahousehold; literacies; proximate illiteracy; South Asia

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; GENDER RELATIONS; MODEL;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33847204971     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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