School Feeding and Girls’ Enrollment: The Effects of Alternative Implementation Modalities in Low-Income Settings in Sub-Saharan Africa

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gelli, Aulo ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

enrollment; evaluation; school feeding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955317297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00076     Document Type: Article

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