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The cost of instructional radio and television for developing countries

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    Dean T. Jamison

  2. Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

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The U.S. Agency for International Development supported work on this paper through AID Contract csd3284 to the Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University. Robert Hornik, Joanne Leslie Jamison, Emile McAnany, and Wilbur Schramm provided valuable comments on a draft of this paper.

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Jamison, D.T., Klees, S.J. The cost of instructional radio and television for developing countries. Instr Sci 4, 333–384 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00053881

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