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Lee, Jessica C.
They have to see us| An ethnography of deaf people in Tanzania.
Degree: 2012, University of Colorado at Boulder
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► This dissertation explores the relationship between Tanzanian deaf people and mainstream society, as well as dynamics within deaf communities. I argue that deaf people…
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▼ This dissertation explores the relationship between Tanzanian deaf people and mainstream society, as well as dynamics within deaf communities. I argue that deaf people who do participate in NGOs and other organizations that provide support to deaf people, do so strategically. In order to access services and improve their own lives and the lives of their families, deaf people in Tanzania move comfortably and fluidly between identity groups that are labeled as disabled or only as deaf. Through intentional use of the interventions provided by various organizations, deaf people are able to carve out deaf spaces that act as places for transmission of information, safe areas to learn and use sign language, and sites of network and community development among other deaf people. Through these deaf spaces and networks—formed around the safe and open use of sign language—deaf participants in these communities are better able to resist the imbalanced systems and find ways to survive, and in some cases thrive, in the context of structural, cultural, and economic oppression. Finally, I lay out quantitative and qualitative data that show that deaf people who participate in a signing community have better access to support networks, economic opportunities, and increased participation in public life.
Subjects/Keywords: Sub Saharan Africa Studies
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Lee, J. C. (2012). They have to see us| An ethnography of deaf people in Tanzania. (Thesis). University of Colorado at Boulder. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3508013
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Lee, Jessica C. “They have to see us| An ethnography of deaf people in Tanzania.” 2012. Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder. Accessed March 04, 2021.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lee, Jessica C. “They have to see us| An ethnography of deaf people in Tanzania.” 2012. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
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Lee JC. They have to see us| An ethnography of deaf people in Tanzania. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Colorado at Boulder; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
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Lee JC. They have to see us| An ethnography of deaf people in Tanzania. [Thesis]. University of Colorado at Boulder; 2012. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3508013
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West Virginia University
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Mandzik, Amanda M.
Three essays on institutions and development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Degree: PhD, Economics, 2014, West Virginia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.229
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https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/229
► As a region, sub-Saharan Africa lags behind the rest of the world in both human development and economic growth. However, a portion of the development…
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▼ As a region, sub-
Saharan Africa lags behind the rest of the world in both human development and economic growth. However, a portion of the development literature suggests that institutions may play a role in explaining, and perhaps changing, the outcomes that are observed in these countries. Therefore, this dissertation explores how institutions have shaped and continue to shape the health and economic outcomes of this region. In Chapter 2, jointly with Andrew Young, we seek to explain the correlation between high HIV prevalence rates and the Christian share of the population that contrasts with low HIV prevalence rates observed with the Muslim share of the population. We conclude that, while male circumcision (a predominantly Muslim tradition) is inversely related with HIV prevalence, some other cultural factor continues to drive the correlation between Christianity and HIV.;Chapter 3 compares the role of democracy to economic freedom in determining health outcomes in African countries. After incorporating controls, I find that economic freedom is associated with higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality while democracy is not. However, I also find that the effectiveness of economic institutions depends in part on the resources that are present in a given country. In the absence of water access, for example, a stronger government may play a role in providing public goods for the benefit of the health of the population.;In Chapter 4, I investigate the institutional determinants of the high levels of shadow economic activity present in the sub-
Saharan region. My findings show that improved legal and property protection in addition to a sound money supply decreases informality within a given country. Furthermore, by employing a spatial econometric model, I find that countries that are neighbors to a country with less intrusive government oversight are likely to experience lower levels of informal activity themselves.
Advisors/Committee Members: Andrew T. Young, Linda Kinney, Donald Lacombe.
Subjects/Keywords: Economics; Sub Saharan Africa studies
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Mandzik, A. M. (2014). Three essays on institutions and development in sub-Saharan Africa. (Doctoral Dissertation). West Virginia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.229 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/229
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mandzik, Amanda M. “Three essays on institutions and development in sub-Saharan Africa.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, West Virginia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.229 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/229.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mandzik, Amanda M. “Three essays on institutions and development in sub-Saharan Africa.” 2014. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
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Mandzik AM. Three essays on institutions and development in sub-Saharan Africa. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.229 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/229.
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Mandzik AM. Three essays on institutions and development in sub-Saharan Africa. [Doctoral Dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2014. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.229 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/229
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Nsaikila, Melaine Nyuyfoni.
Poverty, resource endowment and conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa a reexamination of the resource curse hypothesis.
Degree: 2015, Western Illinois University
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► Contrary to the logical conclusion that the more natural resources a country has or controls, the more prosperous, rich and happy will be its…
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▼ Contrary to the logical conclusion that the more natural resources a country has or controls, the more prosperous, rich and happy will be its people, the evidence from many Sub-Saharan countries is pointing to a different direction with numerous conflicts occurring mostly near mineral deposits or in countries heavily endowed with natural resources of various sorts. This paper seeks to tackle the basic questions of a sub-Saharan African and any person interested in the region; why are there so many conflicts in the region? Why is there absolute poverty despite the presence of enormous natural resources? What are the factors contributing to the present problems facing the region? This paper establishes the relationship between poverty, resource endowments and conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper reviews literature, stressing on the different conditions under which resource abundance can and have been a primary cause of conflicts. It argues that poverty and conflicts have re-enforced each other and that natural resources have played a role. The paper also makes use of conflict, resource and poverty data among other variables to establish the probable cause for the numerous conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper suggests statistically that Political Stability and Absence of violent conflicts can only be altered by the lack of sustainable economic opportunity, failure to control corruption and rising levels of poverty. It is worth noting that the resource variables are not statistically significant. This however, do not dismiss the role of natural resources in the present conflicts of the region because the trend is observable that most conflict ridden countries in the Sub-Saharan African region are resource rich. It rather lays an emphasis on the fact that resource revenues could be used to avert the current situation by provision of basic needs like shelter, potable water, security, accountable institutions, education and the promotion of enterprise that will be a guarantor of sustainable economic opportunities. The paper employs Maslow's Human needs theory for some explanations and also multiple regression, using panel data for statistical analysis. Fixed and random effects estimation techniques are used, and other statistical testing to determine the validity of the different variable coefficients generated. The paper suggests concrete economic and policy recommendations to the problems enumerated that could leapfrog the region out of the current bad situation it has been in for decades.
Subjects/Keywords: Education, Administration; Sub Saharan Africa Studies
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Nsaikila, M. N. (2015). Poverty, resource endowment and conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa a reexamination of the resource curse hypothesis. (Thesis). Western Illinois University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1586512
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Nsaikila, Melaine Nyuyfoni. “Poverty, resource endowment and conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa a reexamination of the resource curse hypothesis.” 2015. Thesis, Western Illinois University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
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Nsaikila, Melaine Nyuyfoni. “Poverty, resource endowment and conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa a reexamination of the resource curse hypothesis.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
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Nsaikila MN. Poverty, resource endowment and conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa a reexamination of the resource curse hypothesis. [Internet] [Thesis]. Western Illinois University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
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Nsaikila MN. Poverty, resource endowment and conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa a reexamination of the resource curse hypothesis. [Thesis]. Western Illinois University; 2015. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1586512
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Kamara, Kimberly.
Understanding Caregivers Perceptions of Malnutrition in the Jinja District of Uganda.
Degree: 2013, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1534946
► <b>Background:</b> In 2006, 16.4% of children under 5 years were reported to be underweight in Uganda. In spite of this high prevalence, only 3.3%…
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▼ <b>Background:</b> In 2006, 16.4% of children under 5 years were reported to be underweight in Uganda. In spite of this high prevalence, only 3.3% of children taken to the Allan Stone Community Clinic, in 2012, were treated for malnutrition. In order to decrease malnutrition in the community, it is imperative to understand caregiver's comprehension of the illness. <b>Objective:</b> Determine the level of understanding of malnutrition among caregivers in the sub-counties served by the Allan Stone Clinic. <b>Methods:</b> Qualitative focus group study with female and male caregivers. <b>Key Results:</b> All focus group participants identified visible signs of malnutrition. Causes cited included feeding practices, sleeping conditions, child care, hygiene, and birth spacing. The major obstacles to prevention and lack of treatment included economic incapacity and lack of knowledge. <b>Conclusions:</b> A mobile educational campaign focused on using foods locally available could reduce the number of malnourished children in the community.
Subjects/Keywords: Health Sciences, Nutrition; Sub Saharan Africa Studies
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Kamara, K. (2013). Understanding Caregivers Perceptions of Malnutrition in the Jinja District of Uganda. (Thesis). Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1534946
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Kamara, Kimberly. “Understanding Caregivers Perceptions of Malnutrition in the Jinja District of Uganda.” 2013. Thesis, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Accessed March 04, 2021.
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Kamara, Kimberly. “Understanding Caregivers Perceptions of Malnutrition in the Jinja District of Uganda.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
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Kamara K. Understanding Caregivers Perceptions of Malnutrition in the Jinja District of Uganda. [Internet] [Thesis]. Mount Sinai School of Medicine; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
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Kamara K. Understanding Caregivers Perceptions of Malnutrition in the Jinja District of Uganda. [Thesis]. Mount Sinai School of Medicine; 2013. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1534946
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University of Pittsburgh
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Campbell, Cary Keith.
The Discursive Construction of the Ivorian Nation in the Period of Ivoirite.
Degree: 2011, University of Pittsburgh
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► Nationalism in Africa has to deal with a conception of the category of nation as a mediator between self and world which is complicated…
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▼ Nationalism in Africa has to deal with a conception of the category of nation as a mediator between self and world which is complicated by a number of competing factors. Colonialism and neocolonialism, ethnic, racial and religious considerations, and other supra-national and intra-national factors all vie for the power to variously define the nation or reject it. With a cultural <i> raison d’être</i> at the core of any nation’s distinctiveness, I study five Ivorian authors’ evolving conceptions of the Côte d’Ivoire within their novels—their cultural products—from 1995 to 2006. This time period in the Côte d’Ivoire is one of a civil war and the lead-up to it—a time of extreme tension on the national identity’s definition. I argue that works from Amadou Kourouma, Kitia Touré, Amadou Koné, Véronique Tadjo, and Tanella Boni from this period all perform an Ivorian-ness which contrasts in various ways from the state’s official doctrine of Ivoirité—a uniquely Ivorian discourse which reinforced a budding agonism in the conception of the nation on the ground and ultimately served to foment the exclusion of the Northern half of the country. Using tools taken by analogy primarily from Jameson’s The Political Unconscious, I demonstrate that allegorical readings serve well as a basis from which to make deeper insights and reveal deeper traces of each novel’s performance of its own conception of Ivorian-ness. In this way I show that despite its history as an imposed, artificial, and modern category of identity, the cultural agents and producers of the Côte d’Ivoire are invested in nation‘s potential, not as a temporary step toward more global poles of mediation between self and world, not as an institution inevitably fraught with internal minorities and divisions, but as a positive unit of solidarity in and of itself.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature, African; Sub Saharan Africa Studies
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Campbell, C. K. (2011). The Discursive Construction of the Ivorian Nation in the Period of Ivoirite. (Thesis). University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3447439
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Campbell, Cary Keith. “The Discursive Construction of the Ivorian Nation in the Period of Ivoirite.” 2011. Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3447439.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Campbell, Cary Keith. “The Discursive Construction of the Ivorian Nation in the Period of Ivoirite.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Campbell CK. The Discursive Construction of the Ivorian Nation in the Period of Ivoirite. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Pittsburgh; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3447439.
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Campbell CK. The Discursive Construction of the Ivorian Nation in the Period of Ivoirite. [Thesis]. University of Pittsburgh; 2011. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3447439
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Yale University
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Curley, Seth Alexander.
From Village to State| An Ethnography of Local Government in Uganda.
Degree: 2011, Yale University
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► This dissertation is an ethnographic examination of Ugandan Local Government as it relates to everyday life in the rural areas. The central government of…
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▼ This dissertation is an ethnographic examination of Ugandan Local Government as it relates to everyday life in the rural areas. The central government of Uganda has decentralized authority, creating a variety of new institutional structures, mostly in the form of elected Local Councils. These play an intimate role in everyday life of citizens; they adjudicate local disputes as courts, manage economic development projects of various scales, are the first line of state security, and provide the basis of citizen participation in national civic life. Ethnographic research was carried out among ethnic <i>Bakiga</i> people of Kabale District, in the south western part of the country. In addition, supporting research was carried out among higher levels of government: in sub-counties, and district offices around the nation, and in the capital in the offices of donors, consultants, and the Ministry of Local Government. The object was to examine the political culture at these various levels to understand the enactment of the institutions as they were practiced. At a larger level, the question was how do people participate in the ongoing creation of the nation-state. In Kabale, the colonial administration successfully enfolded people into the state, breaking the traditional authority of male clan elders. Yet the administration was not entirely heavy-handed, as people mostly experienced colonial indifference, Christian proselytizing, as well as some measured agricultural interventions. Despite continuing government discourse that emphasizes its own modernity as a contrast to the backwardness of the peasantry, agriculture in Kabale thrived, leaving people relatively open to the state, or at least to the promises of modernity. The Local Councils have introduced bureaucratic structures of authority into village life. People have seized on these techniques of social integration, and have incorporated them into local instrumental organizations, enthusiastically using them to effectively solve the problems of daily life that matter to them. The irony is that the one place where people have not embraced bureaucratic structures is the Local Councils themselves. In spite of their local, participatory provisions, they take on the properties of government itself, namely distant, autocratic, and aloof. The problem is that no one—ordinary people, the project overseers, and councilors themselves—seems to accept the democratic possibility of government institutions. Thus, they end up turning the new structures into hierarchical institutions, undermining community integration, and concentrating authority at higher levels. Yet even as they serve to constrain local participation in the state, they also provide an elegant structure for the state to communicate its legitimating messages about its own authority. As promising a strategy as decentralization might have been, it was helpless in the face of with the wider practice of governance in Uganda, which operated largely through…
Subjects/Keywords: Anthropology, Cultural; Sub Saharan Africa Studies
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Curley, S. A. (2011). From Village to State| An Ethnography of Local Government in Uganda. (Thesis). Yale University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3467901
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Curley, Seth Alexander. “From Village to State| An Ethnography of Local Government in Uganda.” 2011. Thesis, Yale University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3467901.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Curley, Seth Alexander. “From Village to State| An Ethnography of Local Government in Uganda.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Curley SA. From Village to State| An Ethnography of Local Government in Uganda. [Internet] [Thesis]. Yale University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3467901.
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Curley SA. From Village to State| An Ethnography of Local Government in Uganda. [Thesis]. Yale University; 2011. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3467901
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Riedl, Karin.
Cooperating for fairness| The role of electoral institutions in generating more egalitarian legislation in the sub-Saharan African region.
Degree: 2013, City University of New York
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3553203
► This dissertation examines the impact of electoral systems on legislation that should produce more socially egalitarian societies in the sub-Saharan African region. Based on…
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▼ This dissertation examines the impact of electoral systems on legislation that should produce more socially egalitarian societies in the sub-Saharan African region. Based on a data analysis of 47 sub-Saharan African countries, this dissertation establishes that proportional representation (PR) electoral systems are significantly more likely than plurality or absolute majority electoral systems to generate legislation that establishes and protects equal rights and opportunities for vulnerable societal groups, including women, gays, and people most likely to be infected with HIV. The analysis also shows that plurality and absolute majority systems are more likely to generate legislation that threatens the equal rights and opportunities of vulnerable groups. The dissertation provides causal explanations for the correlation between PR electoral systems and legislation that protects vulnerable groups. An in-depth examination of four countries in the sub-Saharan African region—Benin, Kenya, Namibia, and Uganda—illustrates that proportional representation electoral systems produce incentives for political parties to adopt issues that are of interest to pockets of the electorate and that do not necessarily enjoy the support of the majority of voters. The dissertation shows that the comparatively weaker relationships between individual Members of Parliament (MPs) and their largely conservative constituents allow political parties in PR electoral systems to be better equipped than their counterparts to ensure relatively stronger party discipline. As a result of this, political parties are more capable of efficiently pursuing such legislation within political parties and through more effective inter-party cooperation within committees.
Subjects/Keywords: Political Science, General; Sub Saharan Africa Studies
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Riedl, K. (2013). Cooperating for fairness| The role of electoral institutions in generating more egalitarian legislation in the sub-Saharan African region. (Thesis). City University of New York. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3553203
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Riedl, Karin. “Cooperating for fairness| The role of electoral institutions in generating more egalitarian legislation in the sub-Saharan African region.” 2013. Thesis, City University of New York. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3553203.
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Riedl, Karin. “Cooperating for fairness| The role of electoral institutions in generating more egalitarian legislation in the sub-Saharan African region.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Riedl K. Cooperating for fairness| The role of electoral institutions in generating more egalitarian legislation in the sub-Saharan African region. [Internet] [Thesis]. City University of New York; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3553203.
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Riedl K. Cooperating for fairness| The role of electoral institutions in generating more egalitarian legislation in the sub-Saharan African region. [Thesis]. City University of New York; 2013. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3553203
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Indiana University
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Sobiech, Kathleen L.
Unmet Need for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services| Results from the 2013 Liberia Demographic and Health Survey.
Degree: 2017, Indiana University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10605446
► Although the association between poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and sociodemographic indicators has been explored in many resource-poor settings, limited information exists specific…
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▼ Although the association between poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and sociodemographic indicators has been explored in many resource-poor settings, limited information exists specific to Liberia. The two studies in this document seek to describe unmet need for SRH services using three critical indicators of SRH services: knowledge of HIV status (sexual health); use of skilled provider for antenatal care and delivery (reproductive health); and use of modern contraception when there is a desire to limit or space reproduction (family planning). Data from Liberia’s 2013 Demographic and Health Survey (LDHS) was used to summarize individual-level profiles according to key sociodemographic and sexual health characteristics for sexually active women and men aged 15-49 (Nwomen=7,787; Nmen=3,426). Frequency distributions from log-binomial regressions show the prevalence of unmet need for sexual health services for women is 51.9% and 72.8% for men; 39.7% for reproductive services (women only); and prevalence of unmet need for family planning is 70.7% for women and 76.1% for men. Results show wide disparities in unmet need for sexual health services by wealth and educational attainment for both men and women. Differences in unmet need for reproductive services were disparate based on educational attainment, wealth, and urban/rural residence. Although the unmet need for family planning is high, the disparities among subgroups is not as dramatic as other unmet needs. Results indicate the need to evaluate the gaps between national policy and service utilization with special attention to subgroups with a high-burden of unmet need.
Subjects/Keywords: Health sciences; Sub Saharan Africa studies
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Sobiech, K. L. (2017). Unmet Need for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services| Results from the 2013 Liberia Demographic and Health Survey. (Thesis). Indiana University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10605446
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Sobiech, Kathleen L. “Unmet Need for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services| Results from the 2013 Liberia Demographic and Health Survey.” 2017. Thesis, Indiana University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10605446.
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Sobiech, Kathleen L. “Unmet Need for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services| Results from the 2013 Liberia Demographic and Health Survey.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Sobiech KL. Unmet Need for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services| Results from the 2013 Liberia Demographic and Health Survey. [Internet] [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10605446.
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Sobiech KL. Unmet Need for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services| Results from the 2013 Liberia Demographic and Health Survey. [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10605446
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University of California, Santa Cruz
9.
du Plessis, Pierre L.
Gathering the Kalahari| Tracking Landscapes in Motion.
Degree: 2018, University of California, Santa Cruz
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10829741
► At a time when human environmental disturbance is challenging livability on the planet—for humans and nonhumans alike—it is important to find better methods for…
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▼ At a time when human environmental disturbance is challenging livability on the planet—for humans and nonhumans alike—it is important to find better methods for engaging with the liveliness of landscapes, the relations with which they hang together, and the various ways they are interrupted. This dissertation explores the practices of tracking and gathering as methods for studying such issues facing Kalahari Desert landscapes in Botswana. These ecologically important landscapes are increasingly encroached upon and fragmented by the growing cattle economy and the proliferation of extractive industries into the desert. These trends have led to dramatic declines in wildlife populations and growing desertification of the already arid region. The Kalahari is home to small communities of people, many of whom are former hunter-gatherers whose rights to land and access to wildlife are increasingly inhibited. The government has banned hunting, largely in response to conservationists’ concerns about wildlife. In addition, gathering is increasingly regulated, and cattle colonize areas that are significant for wildlife and San communities. In this context, rather than treating tracking and gathering as objects of study, I take these practices seriously as methods for noticing and theorizing more-than-human landscapes, their transformations, and contingent histories to address challenges facing people and their environments in the Kalahari and beyond. By focusing on the relational forms of noticing landscapes with San trackers and gatherers, I describe landscapes as always in motion, emergent more-than-human places where assemblages gather, histories are made, and politics enacted. This is in direct contrast to theoretical moves that treat landscapes as background on which histories and politics occur. My dissertation enacts tracking and gathering as a methodology. Beginning with an extension of the concept of tracks and following their movements out to their relations with other landscape actors in each chapter, I emphasize that landscapes are not merely contexts for politics and histories. Rather, landscapes do histories and politics, in spite of efforts to hold these landscapes still as underutilized expanses of resources. The dissertation itself unfolds, moving out through the landscape by tracking these emergent relations. I argue that tracking is a relational practice of becoming-familiar-with these multiple entanglements of emergent landscapes. The practice of gathering involves much of the same kinds of attention to landscape movements and their coordinations as with tracking. Here, I employ gathering in its double meaning: the practice of collecting and of coming together. The tracks of gathered truffles then lead to the worlds of grass and termites that, in turn, allow for a reflection on Kalahari rangeland ecology and the political economy of the cattle industry. Finally, the dissertation zooms out to the desert’s geomorphology, tracking the movements of geological…
Subjects/Keywords: Cultural anthropology; Sub Saharan Africa studies
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du Plessis, P. L. (2018). Gathering the Kalahari| Tracking Landscapes in Motion. (Thesis). University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10829741
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
du Plessis, Pierre L. “Gathering the Kalahari| Tracking Landscapes in Motion.” 2018. Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10829741.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
du Plessis, Pierre L. “Gathering the Kalahari| Tracking Landscapes in Motion.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
du Plessis PL. Gathering the Kalahari| Tracking Landscapes in Motion. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California, Santa Cruz; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10829741.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
du Plessis PL. Gathering the Kalahari| Tracking Landscapes in Motion. [Thesis]. University of California, Santa Cruz; 2018. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10829741
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
West Virginia University
10.
Shanguhyia, Naomi Yieko.
Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Land Use and Land Cover Change in Rural Western Kenya.
Degree: PhD, Geology and Geography, 2013, West Virginia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.362
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https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/362
► This study examines the political economy of livelihoods and land use and land cover change in rural western Kenya during a period of economic change.…
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▼ This study examines the political economy of livelihoods and land use and land cover change in rural western Kenya during a period of economic change. The research findings are presented in three stand-alone papers. The first paper examines the initiatives and policies implemented by the state in the past three decades of neoliberal economic change and the implications for rural development. Policy documents and data obtained from interviews and surveys were used to examine how a shift in policies impacted three sectors of rural development: agriculture, infrastructure and commerce- in Vihiga County. The results indicate two political-economic moments that redefined the role of the state in development. The first moment which is associated with the reluctant adoption of neoliberal economic policies, registered poor macro-economic performance but maintained sustained support for rural households. The second moment which was marked with enhanced implementation of neoliberal policies saw impressive macro-economic performance, but with declining state support for rural households. The role of the state changed from being at the forefront of the development to providing an enabling environment for private enterprises to initiate and implement rural development programs.;The second paper focuses on the livelihood activities of rural households in Vihiga County, in the wake of neoliberal economic change. Using a mixed method approach, the study examines the current livelihood diversification options available for households and the changes to these options since Kenya's development agenda shifted from being state led to being market-driven. The findings show that the adoption of neoliberal economic policies contributed to the shrinking of livelihood diversification options for many households that are already grappling with sociocultural strains in the face of declining farm sizes. Many households have become poorer, cannot afford to educate their children and are chronically food-insecure. The few households that engage in cash crop production are vulnerable to both economic perturbations due to their heavy dependence on the market and to environmental perturbations such as erratic rainfall patterns.;The third paper examines the spatial dimensions of rural change over a 25 year period of neoliberal economic change, from the vantage point of land use and land cover change. The analysis combines social and spatial methods and draws from Neil Smith's and David Harvey's political economic theory to examine the production of nature and space on the rural landscape. Change detection done using Landsat imagery indicates some changes that include simultaneous loss and regeneration of forest cover, and expansion of road infrastructure. Other observable changes include some horizontal and vertical expansion of peri-urban centers. These landscape changes reflect on-going processes of enhanced capital penetration and commodification of nature which are associated with neoliberal economic policies.
Advisors/Committee Members: Brent McCusker, Robert Maxon, Jeremia Njeru.
Subjects/Keywords: Geography; Sub Saharan Africa studies; Economics
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Shanguhyia, N. Y. (2013). Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Land Use and Land Cover Change in Rural Western Kenya. (Doctoral Dissertation). West Virginia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.362 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/362
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Shanguhyia, Naomi Yieko. “Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Land Use and Land Cover Change in Rural Western Kenya.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, West Virginia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.362 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/362.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Shanguhyia, Naomi Yieko. “Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Land Use and Land Cover Change in Rural Western Kenya.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Shanguhyia NY. Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Land Use and Land Cover Change in Rural Western Kenya. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.362 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/362.
Council of Science Editors:
Shanguhyia NY. Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Land Use and Land Cover Change in Rural Western Kenya. [Doctoral Dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2013. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.362 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/362
University of California – Berkeley
11.
Cooper, Jan E.
Money, Sex, and Power: An Analysis of Relationship Power in the Context of Conditional Cash Transfer Interventions to Reduce Risky Sex in Tanzania.
Degree: Health Services & Policy Analysis, 2015, University of California – Berkeley
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/13x2h06g
► The success of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) program in several health and social domains has led to recent experiments testing CCTs for sexual and reproductive…
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▼ The success of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) program in several health and social domains has led to recent experiments testing CCTs for sexual and reproductive health. However, this approach has yielded mixed results and has been understudied. My dissertation explores whether sexual relationship power - the power women have to decide if and when to have sex, with whom, and with or without a condom - influences the effectiveness of CCTs to reduce STIs, and additionally, if these CCTs influence relationship power. If we can answer these questions, researchers will be better able to design CCT interventions to reduce the spread of STIs and HIV. My overall hypotheses are: (1) CCTs given to women with high baseline relationship power are more effective at reducing STIs than CCTs given to women with low baseline relationship power (Chapter 1); and (2) that the CCT itself changes the relationship power of those enrolled in the intervention (Chapter 2). A relevant example of women’s power to negotiate safer sex is female sex workers’ interactions with their clients. Therefore, in chapter 3, I draw on theoretical models and previous literature related to the determinants of safer sex among commercial sex workers to analyze qualitatively how Female Sex Workers (FSWs) respond to a novel pilot study using CCTs to incentivize safe sex (Chapter 3). To test these hypotheses, I conducted three studies: The first explores the effect modification of baseline relationship power on the impact of CCTs to reduce STIs; the second is an intent-to-treat analysis of the effect of the CCT on relationship power; and the third is a qualitative analysis of how female sex workers respond to a pilot CCT intervention to incentivize safe sex. Chapters 1 and 2 draw on data from the RESPECT study in Tanzania and Chapter 3 draws on data from the RESPECT II Pilot study to reduce STIs and HIV among female sex workers in Tanzania. My analysis reveals that women’s relationship power significantly modifies the effect of the CCT on STIs. In addition, I show that a CCT improved women’s relationship power, but whether or not women were eligible to receive a high, low, or no cash transfer had little relative impact on changes in their relationship power. Finally, I identify the salient domains of power for female sex workers that are necessary to meet the conditions of a CCT intervention. Taken together, acknowledging and addressing both the degrees of relationship power and domains of relationship power that women experience when enrolled in a CCT will improve the outcomes of these interventions in the context of STIs and HIV.
Subjects/Keywords: Public health; Sub Saharan Africa studies; Epidemiology
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Cooper, J. E. (2015). Money, Sex, and Power: An Analysis of Relationship Power in the Context of Conditional Cash Transfer Interventions to Reduce Risky Sex in Tanzania. (Thesis). University of California – Berkeley. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/13x2h06g
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Cooper, Jan E. “Money, Sex, and Power: An Analysis of Relationship Power in the Context of Conditional Cash Transfer Interventions to Reduce Risky Sex in Tanzania.” 2015. Thesis, University of California – Berkeley. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/13x2h06g.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cooper, Jan E. “Money, Sex, and Power: An Analysis of Relationship Power in the Context of Conditional Cash Transfer Interventions to Reduce Risky Sex in Tanzania.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Cooper JE. Money, Sex, and Power: An Analysis of Relationship Power in the Context of Conditional Cash Transfer Interventions to Reduce Risky Sex in Tanzania. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/13x2h06g.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Cooper JE. Money, Sex, and Power: An Analysis of Relationship Power in the Context of Conditional Cash Transfer Interventions to Reduce Risky Sex in Tanzania. [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2015. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/13x2h06g
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Universidad de Cantabria
12.
Mongongo Dosa, Pacifique.
Aid, economic growth and poverty : analysis of the stimulating and distorting effects of Official Development Assistance on Sub-Saharan African countries: Ayuda, crecimiento económico y pobreza : análisis de los efectos estimulantes y distorsionadores de la Ayuda Oficial al Desarrollo en los países del África Subsahariana.
Degree: 2017, Universidad de Cantabria
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10902/11380
► ABSTRACT: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a key region for the success of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, there is no consensus about the…
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▼ ABSTRACT: Sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA) is a key region for the success of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, there is no consensus about the contribution of Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the promotion of economic growth and the reduction of extreme poverty in this region. Therefore, this PhD Thesis builds an analytical framework for the analysis of the effectiveness of aid in SSA and makes the subsequent empirical estimations for the period 1991–2014. We find four main results: i) ODA to SSA has exerted both distorting and stimulating effects on growth but the latter effects were larger than the former; ii) increasing both aid grants and aid loans, and increasing the ratio of loans to grants, may induce higher growth; iii) however, such a reallocation may only be positive in countries with sustainable debt burdens; and iv) although ODA was effective in aggregate terms, it did not significantly boost the income of the poorest citizens, which reveals a grave distributional deficiency.
Advisors/Committee Members: Tezanos Vázquez, Sergio (advisor), Universidad de Cantabria (other).
Subjects/Keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mongongo Dosa, P. (2017). Aid, economic growth and poverty : analysis of the stimulating and distorting effects of Official Development Assistance on Sub-Saharan African countries: Ayuda, crecimiento económico y pobreza : análisis de los efectos estimulantes y distorsionadores de la Ayuda Oficial al Desarrollo en los países del África Subsahariana. (Doctoral Dissertation). Universidad de Cantabria. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10902/11380
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mongongo Dosa, Pacifique. “Aid, economic growth and poverty : analysis of the stimulating and distorting effects of Official Development Assistance on Sub-Saharan African countries: Ayuda, crecimiento económico y pobreza : análisis de los efectos estimulantes y distorsionadores de la Ayuda Oficial al Desarrollo en los países del África Subsahariana.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Universidad de Cantabria. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10902/11380.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mongongo Dosa, Pacifique. “Aid, economic growth and poverty : analysis of the stimulating and distorting effects of Official Development Assistance on Sub-Saharan African countries: Ayuda, crecimiento económico y pobreza : análisis de los efectos estimulantes y distorsionadores de la Ayuda Oficial al Desarrollo en los países del África Subsahariana.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Mongongo Dosa P. Aid, economic growth and poverty : analysis of the stimulating and distorting effects of Official Development Assistance on Sub-Saharan African countries: Ayuda, crecimiento económico y pobreza : análisis de los efectos estimulantes y distorsionadores de la Ayuda Oficial al Desarrollo en los países del África Subsahariana. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Universidad de Cantabria; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10902/11380.
Council of Science Editors:
Mongongo Dosa P. Aid, economic growth and poverty : analysis of the stimulating and distorting effects of Official Development Assistance on Sub-Saharan African countries: Ayuda, crecimiento económico y pobreza : análisis de los efectos estimulantes y distorsionadores de la Ayuda Oficial al Desarrollo en los países del África Subsahariana. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Universidad de Cantabria; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10902/11380
University of Kansas
13.
Goggans, Andrew.
Democracy in Africa: Colonization vs. Modernization.
Degree: MA, Global and International Studies, Center for, 2016, University of Kansas
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24172
► A country’s degree of democratic development is the best predictor of economic prosperity. African nations are some of the poorest on the planet and tend…
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▼ A country’s degree of democratic development is the best predictor of economic prosperity. African nations are some of the poorest on the planet and tend to have low levels of democracy, while wealthier nations tend toward higher levels. If
Africa is going to increase its economic output, theory suggests one of the best ways to accomplish such a goal is to increase African democracy levels. Why do some countries in
Africa develop democracy while others do not? I analyze the Freedom House and Polity IV democracy scores for each country in order to determine which countries are the most democratic and compare them with historical and demographic data, such as political instability events, fragmentation, population, GDP, and colonial history, in order to give a more robust picture of what factors matter most in the development of democracy in
Africa. I also analyze data on countries outside of
Africa in order to determine whether or not
Africa has different prerequisites for democracy than the rest of the world. I theorize literacy rates, urbanization, and elimination of fragmentation may be more important than economic factors in the development of democracy in
Africa.
Advisors/Committee Members: Wuthrich, Michael (advisor), Baumann, Bob (cmtemember), Kennedy, John (cmtemember).
Subjects/Keywords: Sub Saharan Africa studies; African studies; Africa; Colonization; Democracy; Development; Modernization
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Goggans, A. (2016). Democracy in Africa: Colonization vs. Modernization. (Masters Thesis). University of Kansas. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24172
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Goggans, Andrew. “Democracy in Africa: Colonization vs. Modernization.” 2016. Masters Thesis, University of Kansas. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24172.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Goggans, Andrew. “Democracy in Africa: Colonization vs. Modernization.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Goggans A. Democracy in Africa: Colonization vs. Modernization. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Kansas; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24172.
Council of Science Editors:
Goggans A. Democracy in Africa: Colonization vs. Modernization. [Masters Thesis]. University of Kansas; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24172
14.
Kelley, Njideka O.
A study exploring factors supporting continued underrepresentation of Oguta women in leadership roles in Nigeria.
Degree: 2012, University of Phoenix
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3528762
► The purpose of the qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the factors that have hindered Oguta women in Imo State, Nigeria, from advancing socially,…
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▼ The purpose of the qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the factors that have hindered Oguta women in Imo State, Nigeria, from advancing socially, economically, and politically. The study was an exploration of the factors that hinder Oguta women from obtaining leadership roles and the effects of gender inequality, discrimination, marginalization, and underrepresentation of Oguta woman’s ability to occupy leadership roles. The conceptual foundation of the study was feminist theory. The study participants were 20 women affiliated with Oguta Girls’ High School in Oguta in Nigeria comprised of teachers, administrators, and members of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA). Data was collected with one-on-one, semi-structured, open-ended interviews. Result of the interviews revealed themes related to culture, gender preference, religion, politics, and lack (or denial) of education. Findings from the study revealed that culture, gender preference, religion, politics, and lack (or denial) of education accounted for gender inequality, discrimination, marginalization, and underrepresentation of Oguta women in the Oguta community.
Subjects/Keywords: Women's Studies; Sub Saharan Africa Studies; Gender Studies
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Kelley, N. O. (2012). A study exploring factors supporting continued underrepresentation of Oguta women in leadership roles in Nigeria. (Thesis). University of Phoenix. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3528762
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Kelley, Njideka O. “A study exploring factors supporting continued underrepresentation of Oguta women in leadership roles in Nigeria.” 2012. Thesis, University of Phoenix. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3528762.
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Kelley, Njideka O. “A study exploring factors supporting continued underrepresentation of Oguta women in leadership roles in Nigeria.” 2012. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Kelley NO. A study exploring factors supporting continued underrepresentation of Oguta women in leadership roles in Nigeria. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Phoenix; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3528762.
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Council of Science Editors:
Kelley NO. A study exploring factors supporting continued underrepresentation of Oguta women in leadership roles in Nigeria. [Thesis]. University of Phoenix; 2012. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3528762
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15.
Ervin, Gail Mandell.
Learning from the grassroots| Emergent peacebuilding design in pastoralist Kenya.
Degree: 2016, Saybrook University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10009094
► Pastoralists (nomadic herders) live throughout the arid and semi-arid areas of Kenya, where they have historically been marginalized, with little development and security. Continuing…
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▼ Pastoralists (nomadic herders) live throughout the arid and semi-arid areas of Kenya, where they have historically been marginalized, with little development and security. Continuing traditions of cattle rustling and ethnic violence present significant barriers to development, and external peacebuilding efforts achieve limited results in such conflicts. A uniquely pastoralist grassroots peacebuilding process emerged to address pastoralist conflict, which generated sustainable peace in Laikipia yet was never studied. A review of extant literature conducted for this dissertation led to the conclusion that the peacebuilding field does not sufficiently study such grassroots volunteer peacebuilding, and support for such efforts is hampered by Western teleological approaches that have limited capacity to deal with emergence and complexity. This dissertation addresses these deficiencies by enhancing understanding and utilization of emergent peacebuilding in Kenya?s pastoralist cultures. In this study, Kenya Pastoralist Network and Mediators Beyond Borders?Kenya Initiative co-researchers collaboratively developed a participatory action research (PAR) project focused on a 2009 peacebuilding effort known as the Laikipia Peace Caravan (LPC). The dissertation explored how effective and sustainable grassroots peacebuilding emerges in pastoralist cultures. The PAR approach was utilized to support pastoralists in empowering themselves regarding the ways in which their neotraditional peacebuilding works, and how it can become more sustainable. Multi-ethnic co-researchers engaged in study design, data collection, inquiry and qualitative analysis, conducting semistructured multilingual interviews with 49 diverse Laikipia community members, officials and LPC professionals. Archival research was collected from a range of sources.
This study found that effective and sustainable pastoralist peacebuilding emerged from expansive utilization of diverse pastoralist social networks, cycles of learning and adaptation, integration of practical wisdom and cultural sensitivities, and systemic transformation of transactional, attitudinal and structural societal domains through dialogue processes, modeling and grassroots self-organization. The dissertation outlines and provides evidence for a novel conceptual framework, emergent peacebuilding design, which involves a multidimensional systemic approach to peacebuilding that emerges from social networks, embraces diversity and complexity, is inclusive of traditional methods, and adapts as necessary to meet changes in context and process.
Subjects/Keywords: Peace studies; Ethnic studies; Sub Saharan Africa studies
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Ervin, G. M. (2016). Learning from the grassroots| Emergent peacebuilding design in pastoralist Kenya. (Thesis). Saybrook University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10009094
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ervin, Gail Mandell. “Learning from the grassroots| Emergent peacebuilding design in pastoralist Kenya.” 2016. Thesis, Saybrook University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10009094.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ervin, Gail Mandell. “Learning from the grassroots| Emergent peacebuilding design in pastoralist Kenya.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Ervin GM. Learning from the grassroots| Emergent peacebuilding design in pastoralist Kenya. [Internet] [Thesis]. Saybrook University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10009094.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Ervin GM. Learning from the grassroots| Emergent peacebuilding design in pastoralist Kenya. [Thesis]. Saybrook University; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10009094
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Indiana University
16.
Boswell, Kathryn V.
Migration, war, and repatriation from Cote d'Ivoire to Burkina Faso, West Africa.
Degree: 2011, Indiana University
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► My work focuses on Burkinabé labor migrants’ forced return to Burkina Faso from Côte d’Ivoire following the eruption of the Ivoirian civil war in…
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▼ My work focuses on Burkinabé labor migrants’ forced return to Burkina Faso from Côte d’Ivoire following the eruption of the Ivoirian civil war in September 2002. My dissertation is based on fourteen months of ethnographic research begun in 2003 and completed in 2004-2005 in urban Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. In the thesis, I examine how Burkinabé repatriates from Côte d’Ivoire use the socio-economic networks formed while abroad to cope with their experiences stemming from the conflict and their subsequent unexpected return to Burkina Faso. The war and Burkinabé's unexpected repatriation exposed a dissonance in which migrants’ intention to remain in Côte d’Ivoire as temporary migrants contradicted their socio-economic investments, which illustrated permanency and immigration, in a host country where they were increasingly subject to xenophobic violence. Upon their return to Burkina Faso, the repatriate population has been marginalized on both a national and local level. As a consequence, repatriates have created voluntary associations based upon existent networks and shared experiences with war and repatriation to meet their needs and to advocate for their rights as a new kind of Burkinabé citizen. This work contributes to continuing attempts to understand how nations and the communities within them develop and maintain distinct identities through peaceful and violent means and in response to globalizing forces, such as transnational and force migration, in French West Africa.
Subjects/Keywords: African Studies; Anthropology, Cultural; Sub Saharan Africa Studies
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Boswell, K. V. (2011). Migration, war, and repatriation from Cote d'Ivoire to Burkina Faso, West Africa. (Thesis). Indiana University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3439555
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Boswell, Kathryn V. “Migration, war, and repatriation from Cote d'Ivoire to Burkina Faso, West Africa.” 2011. Thesis, Indiana University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3439555.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Boswell, Kathryn V. “Migration, war, and repatriation from Cote d'Ivoire to Burkina Faso, West Africa.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Boswell KV. Migration, war, and repatriation from Cote d'Ivoire to Burkina Faso, West Africa. [Internet] [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3439555.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Boswell KV. Migration, war, and repatriation from Cote d'Ivoire to Burkina Faso, West Africa. [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2011. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3439555
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
17.
Ayodele, Michael Bamikunle.
Exploring the Acclimation of Foreign Professionals| A Grounded Theory Study of African-Born Nurses in Maricopa County.
Degree: 2015, Grand Canyon University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3680131
► The purpose of this qualitative, grounded theory study was to explore and describe the perceptions and experiences of African-born and educated nurses (ABEN) in…
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▼ The purpose of this qualitative, grounded theory study was to explore and describe the perceptions and experiences of African-born and educated nurses (ABEN) in order to understand how the nurses influenced systems of professional practice in healthcare systems of Maricopa County of Arizona. The overarching research question for the study directly reflected the purpose statement. Four sub-questions were also used in the study. These centered on was how care experiences shaped ABEN perceptions of the healthcare delivery system, how ABEN informed and shaped their social interactions when caring for patients and residents, the barriers to providing care and to fulfilling work practices and processes that ABEN described and the components of a model to adjust or remove experienced barriers. The sample consisted of 17 registered nurses, 16 females and one male, from five African countries, who participated in individual interviews. Lee's push-pull theory formed the theoretical framework of the study. Responses from interviews and researcher field notes were coded and thematically analyzed to determine answers to research questions. Six categories emerged from conceptual data analysis: optimism, self-development, confronting barriers, discovering, assimilation drive, and adaptability. A four-stage model of acclimation was developed from these six components. Results have implications for healthcare policy changes such that ABEN become fully assimilated and accepted as contributors to healthcare delivery in Maricopa County.
Subjects/Keywords: African Studies; Sub Saharan Africa Studies; Health Sciences, Health Care Management
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Ayodele, M. B. (2015). Exploring the Acclimation of Foreign Professionals| A Grounded Theory Study of African-Born Nurses in Maricopa County. (Thesis). Grand Canyon University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3680131
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ayodele, Michael Bamikunle. “Exploring the Acclimation of Foreign Professionals| A Grounded Theory Study of African-Born Nurses in Maricopa County.” 2015. Thesis, Grand Canyon University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3680131.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ayodele, Michael Bamikunle. “Exploring the Acclimation of Foreign Professionals| A Grounded Theory Study of African-Born Nurses in Maricopa County.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Ayodele MB. Exploring the Acclimation of Foreign Professionals| A Grounded Theory Study of African-Born Nurses in Maricopa County. [Internet] [Thesis]. Grand Canyon University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3680131.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Ayodele MB. Exploring the Acclimation of Foreign Professionals| A Grounded Theory Study of African-Born Nurses in Maricopa County. [Thesis]. Grand Canyon University; 2015. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3680131
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
18.
Kish, Ashley.
Protracted Conflict and Development in South Sudan| A Feminist Analysis of Women's Subjugation in the Making of a Nation.
Degree: 2018, California Institute of Integral Studies
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10686896
► Protracted conflict and development in South Sudan: A feminist analysis of women’s subjugation in the making of a nation argues that international interventions in…
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▼ Protracted conflict and development in South Sudan: A feminist analysis of women’s subjugation in the making of a nation argues that international interventions in South Sudan from the period of British colonization to present day South Sudan perpetuate and [re]inscribe formations of women’s oppression and agency. Foreign presence affects identity constructions, conflict, and governance. I demonstrate how international interventions, militarization, and protracted conflict, compromise women’s rights, health, and self-determination as they permeate understandings of gender, sex, reproduction, and security. I integrate an analysis of customary and civil law to establish how the expression and implementation of law and rights inform relationships to women’s freedom and justice. Further, I investigate techniques the United Nations and NGOs used to influence cultural shifts that reproduce structural inequities based on gender, body, class, and nation. Foregrounding power, politics, and local knowledges, my ethnography is a practice of emancipatory anthropology to excavate techniques and procedures of normalizing gender, reproductive and sexual health, and biopolitical governance (Foucault 2008, 4). Informed by an ethnography of United Nations and NGO staff, I argue that international interventions in South Sudan introduce formations of biopolitical governance mediated by donor-driven, development agendas, by superimposing relationships to sex, gender, reproduction, and health, which are both culturally contested and unsustainable.
Subjects/Keywords: Cultural anthropology; Women's studies; Sub Saharan Africa studies
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Kish, A. (2018). Protracted Conflict and Development in South Sudan| A Feminist Analysis of Women's Subjugation in the Making of a Nation. (Thesis). California Institute of Integral Studies. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10686896
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Kish, Ashley. “Protracted Conflict and Development in South Sudan| A Feminist Analysis of Women's Subjugation in the Making of a Nation.” 2018. Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10686896.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kish, Ashley. “Protracted Conflict and Development in South Sudan| A Feminist Analysis of Women's Subjugation in the Making of a Nation.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Kish A. Protracted Conflict and Development in South Sudan| A Feminist Analysis of Women's Subjugation in the Making of a Nation. [Internet] [Thesis]. California Institute of Integral Studies; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10686896.
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Council of Science Editors:
Kish A. Protracted Conflict and Development in South Sudan| A Feminist Analysis of Women's Subjugation in the Making of a Nation. [Thesis]. California Institute of Integral Studies; 2018. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10686896
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Rhodes University
19.
Hadisi Basingene, Serge.
Is economic growth without human development sustainable? : Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent growth acceleration in context.
Degree: Faculty of Commerce, Economics and Economic History, 2014, Rhodes University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013137
► The purpose of the study has been to assess the question of sustainability of economic growth and human development, particularly using sub-Saharan Africa in context.…
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▼ The purpose of the study has been to assess the question of sustainability of economic growth and human development, particularly using sub-Saharan Africa in context. Sub-Saharan Africa is an interesting case study because, on the one hand, it has been mired in poverty and remains the least developed region in the world, and on the other, it has experienced a revival in economic growth since the mid-1990s. Economists tend to use the term economic development and economic growth interchangeably. However, questions have been raised about whether Africa’s latest growth episode is indeed ‘development’. Although there are many issues at stake, the key question, and the focus of this thesis, is whether sub-Saharan Africa’s revival is sustainable. The paper sets out the debate between the ‘World Bank view’ and the ‘alternative view’. The main debate lies around how genuine development should be achieved. Firstly, the ‘World Bank view’ claims that economic growth is necessary and sufficient condition to achieve development. Economic growth will be generated by ‘orthodox’ policies and this growth will automatically trickle-down and stimulate development. Secondly, the ‘alternative view’ argues that economic growth is necessary but it is not sufficient to stimulate sustainable development. Economic growth without ‘qualitative’ change is not ‘sustainable’. Indeed, human development shortfalls (as well as other, social, political and structural problems), if not addressed through appropriate policy interventions, can undermine economic growth. The ‘alternative view’ appears to be strongly supported by evidence from other developing regions such as Latin America and East Asia. The empirical study conducted in this thesis reinforces doubts about ‘sustainability’. Even though there are signs of convergence in some indicators; this is not the case for all indicators. More importantly the gap between sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions remains very wide. Sub-Saharan Africa’s development path remains uncertain. The intention in this study is not to be conclusive that sub-Saharan Africa cannot achieve sustainable development. Rather the study attempts to identify potential hindrances to sub-Saharan Africa’s development and to provide a solid foundation for further research in the same direction.
Subjects/Keywords: Sustainable development – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Economic development – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Poverty – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa, Sub-Saharan – Social conditions; Africa, Sub-Saharan – Economic conditions; Africa, Sub-Saharan – Economic policy
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Hadisi Basingene, S. (2014). Is economic growth without human development sustainable? : Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent growth acceleration in context. (Thesis). Rhodes University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013137
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hadisi Basingene, Serge. “Is economic growth without human development sustainable? : Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent growth acceleration in context.” 2014. Thesis, Rhodes University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013137.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hadisi Basingene, Serge. “Is economic growth without human development sustainable? : Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent growth acceleration in context.” 2014. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Hadisi Basingene S. Is economic growth without human development sustainable? : Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent growth acceleration in context. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013137.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Hadisi Basingene S. Is economic growth without human development sustainable? : Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent growth acceleration in context. [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013137
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Stellenbosch University
20.
Ehlers, Landi.
Curse or Cure? The relationship between food aid and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Mozambique and Kenya.
Degree: MA, Political Science, 2019, Stellenbosch University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107033
► ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Hunger is one of the greatest problems facing the global population. The reality is a situation of desperation, tragically in the midst of…
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▼ ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Hunger is one of the greatest problems facing the global population. The reality is a situation of desperation, tragically in the midst of global, aggregate surplus. Global food production is increasing at a higher rate than global population growth, yet the number of people suffering from chronic hunger is rising. This seemingly contradictory fact is a consequence of severe food insecurity. Donors provide food aid to food insecure states as an ostensible act of humanitarianism. However, critics argue that food aid donations hold ulterior motives, which are favourable to donors, but condemn food insecure recipients to their desperate circumstances. This debate, calling into question the motivations and effectiveness of food aid, remains unsettled in the literature as well as in practice. The world can no longer risk the implementation of possibly ineffective or detrimental measures in response to food insecurity. This study investigates the purported relationship between food aid and food security. It considers the different arguments within this debate and ultimately determines how valid these arguments are in a Sub-Saharan African context, specifically in the cases of Kenya and Mozambique. The Human Security approach, the Capabilities Approach, as well as Theories of Dependency are deployed as analytical tools according to which a framework of analysis is constructed and applied to both case studies. Along with insight gained from interviewed experts, this study is able to conclude that the relationship between food aid and food security in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically the cases of Kenya and Mozambique, is not directly relational. Positive arguments in the debate regarding food aid and food security are not valid in the cases of Kenya and Mozambique, while the negative arguments of dependency and underdevelopment are much more likely to be realised. Both countries receive predominantly emergency food aid, the alternative to which may often be destitution. It is thus neither helpful nor realistic to suggest that food aid provision should be halted due to its negative consequences. This study concludes that although the provision of emergency food aid seems a necessary evil, it should no longer be considered a method of sustainably increasing recipients’ food security. The findings of this study may assist in the development of more effective practices regarding food aid and food security. By addressing the root causes of food insecurity, and enabling food aid dependant countries to recognise their weaknesses, positive and sustainable development may be promoted, which may in turn improve food security and lower the necessity of, and dependency on, food aid.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hongersnood is wêreldwyd een van die grootste bedreigings vir die mensdom. Voedselproduksie vermeerder teen ʼn hoër tempo as die populasie en tog neem die hoeveelheid mense wat aan hongersnood ly toe. Hierdie teenstrydigheid kan toegeskryf word aan die gevolge van ʼn gebrek aan voedselsekuriteit. Skenkers bied…
Advisors/Committee Members: Fourie, P P, Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Political Science..
Subjects/Keywords: Hunger – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Food relief – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Food security – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Security, Food – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Malnutrition – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Food supply – Africa, Sub-Saharan; UCTD
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Ehlers, L. (2019). Curse or Cure? The relationship between food aid and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Mozambique and Kenya. (Masters Thesis). Stellenbosch University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107033
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ehlers, Landi. “Curse or Cure? The relationship between food aid and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Mozambique and Kenya.” 2019. Masters Thesis, Stellenbosch University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107033.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ehlers, Landi. “Curse or Cure? The relationship between food aid and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Mozambique and Kenya.” 2019. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Ehlers L. Curse or Cure? The relationship between food aid and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Mozambique and Kenya. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Stellenbosch University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107033.
Council of Science Editors:
Ehlers L. Curse or Cure? The relationship between food aid and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Mozambique and Kenya. [Masters Thesis]. Stellenbosch University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107033
University of Oklahoma
21.
Andzie-Quainoo, Lord.
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN THE TROPICS: WHY AFRICA RECIEVES LESS FDI AND HAS LOW AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY?.
Degree: PhD, 2011, University of Oklahoma
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/318721
► I discuss what needs to be done in Africa for it to increase its agricultural productivity in chapter 4. I review all the various interventions…
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▼ I discuss what needs to be done in
Africa for it to increase its agricultural productivity in chapter 4. I review all the various interventions that have taken place in
Africa with the goal of boosting its agricultural productivity, but failed to realize that goal. In particular I look at why the earlier Green Revolution that transformed agricultural productivity in most of the Asian and Latin American countries stalled in
Africa. I then examined the two main approaches (i.e. focused approach and comprehensive approach) that have been suggested in the literature to improve
Africa's agricultural productivity. The proponents of the comprehensive approach note the complex nature of
Africa's agricultural problems and hence propose that the solution should be multifaced and coordinated. Those who advocate for the focused approach argue that with scarce budgets, the solution to
Africa's agricultural problems should be concise and focused on the more binding constraints to agricultural productivity. Finally, I argue that the approach that
Africa adopts (be it comprehensive or focused approach) is not the key, but rather the significant role that African leaders will need to play. African leaders will have to improve rural infrastructure, make technology adoption affordable through the use of subsidies and micro-financing. Also African leaders will have to provide safety nets for farmers to reduce the risk in adopting new technology. Without African leaders providing these facilities, none of the approaches suggested stands a chance to succeed.
Advisors/Committee Members: Grier, Robin (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Agricultural productivity – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Investments, Foreign – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa, Sub-Saharan – Economic conditions
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Andzie-Quainoo, L. (2011). FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN THE TROPICS: WHY AFRICA RECIEVES LESS FDI AND HAS LOW AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY?. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oklahoma. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11244/318721
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Andzie-Quainoo, Lord. “FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN THE TROPICS: WHY AFRICA RECIEVES LESS FDI AND HAS LOW AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY?.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oklahoma. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11244/318721.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Andzie-Quainoo, Lord. “FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN THE TROPICS: WHY AFRICA RECIEVES LESS FDI AND HAS LOW AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY?.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Andzie-Quainoo L. FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN THE TROPICS: WHY AFRICA RECIEVES LESS FDI AND HAS LOW AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY?. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oklahoma; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/318721.
Council of Science Editors:
Andzie-Quainoo L. FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN THE TROPICS: WHY AFRICA RECIEVES LESS FDI AND HAS LOW AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY?. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oklahoma; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/318721
22.
Ferreira, Thomas.
The extension of existing data and methods to measure poverty and mobility in data-poor, agrarian Sub-Saharan Africa.
Degree: DCom, Economics, 2017, Stellenbosch University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102939
► ENGLISH SUMMARY : In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), poverty rates have declined, but the absolute number of poor has increased (Beegle et al., 2016). The poor…
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▼ ENGLISH SUMMARY : In sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA), poverty rates have declined, but the absolute number of poor has increased (Beegle et al., 2016). The poor are disproportionately found in rural households which practise smallholder agriculture. Poor data availability and quality have no doubt curbed poverty alleviation efforts. Smallholder agriculture is hard to measure and the statistical capacity of many developing countries in SSA is low (Carletto et al., 2015). In this environment, this thesis shows through three separate
studies, how existing data and methods can be extended to overcome usual data deciencies in SSA and enhance knowledge on welfare. In the rest study, econometric techniques used in analysis of the formal labour market are extended to understand the educational returns in agricultural productivity in Malawi. Poverty in Malawi ts the typical pattern in SSA. The majority of the poor live and work in smallholder agriculture. In settings like these, schooling is believed to be a valuable tool in lifting people out of poverty. Yet, little is known about how schooling affects agricultural productivity. The effect of education on smallholder agricultural production has been estimated for countries in SSA but no
studies deal with the endogenous nature of education in the production process. This chapter contributes to the literature by estimating for the rst time, the causal effects of education on agricultural productivity in SSA. An instrumental variable (IV) approach is used, using the introduction of free primary education (FPE) and the age of paternal orphanhood as IV's for education. The instruments are shown to calculate local average treatment effects for individuals who only entered school due to FPE and only left school due to paternal orphanhood. It is found that there are large differences in returns to education between the subgroups. Returns are low and insignicant when FPE is used as an IV but they are larger and there is a signicant effect when age of paternal orphanhood is used. Thus, while education can have large effects on agricultural productivity, this is not so for most of the population, especially individuals specically targeted by large scale expansions in educational access. The second study shows how existing satellite data can be used to enhance knowledge of welfare in rural agrarian areas where data on poverty is infrequent and only statistically representative for large geographic areas. Satellite data overcomes both of these limitations as small geographic areas are captured at high frequency. Night lights satellite data have been shown to correlate well with GDP but are not in areas that are not electried, such as rural, agriculturally based communities in developing countries. This is why this study explores the use of daytime satellite data. Satellite data measuring land use and vegetation quality, have been used to model socioeconomic outcomes across regions, but no
studies have explored whether daytime satellite data can be used to track welfare longitudinally. This…
Advisors/Committee Members: Van der Berg, Servaas, Von Fintel, Dieter, Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Economics..
Subjects/Keywords: Agricultural productivity – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Subsistence farming – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Poverty – Africa, Sub-Saharan; Economic mobility – Africa, Sub-Saharan; UCTD
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Ferreira, Thomas. “The extension of existing data and methods to measure poverty and mobility in data-poor, agrarian Sub-Saharan Africa.” 2017. Thesis, Stellenbosch University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102939.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ferreira, Thomas. “The extension of existing data and methods to measure poverty and mobility in data-poor, agrarian Sub-Saharan Africa.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Ferreira T. The extension of existing data and methods to measure poverty and mobility in data-poor, agrarian Sub-Saharan Africa. [Internet] [Thesis]. Stellenbosch University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102939.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Ferreira T. The extension of existing data and methods to measure poverty and mobility in data-poor, agrarian Sub-Saharan Africa. [Thesis]. Stellenbosch University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102939
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Addis Ababa University
23.
INNOCENT, RUGAMBWA.
INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
.
Degree: 2012, Addis Ababa University
URL: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/2842
► This thesis examines the trends in information science education being offered at master's degree level within Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa, with a view to identifying its…
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▼ This thesis examines the trends in information science education being offered at master's
degree level within Anglophone Sub-
Saharan Africa, with a view to identifying its current
status, core competencies shared in common, problems, and implications, and to draw
suitable recommendations for its improvement. Analysis of the master's programmes being
offered in the selected schools in the US and UK was done to identify the situation in the
"Developed World".
A survey was conducted using self-administered questionnaires, interviews and informal
discussions. Respondents included the Deans of schools of LIS, SISA graduates from 1990
to 1996, and experts in the field. Analysis of the survey findings was based on the Unesco
Modular Curriculum for Information
Studies, with special emphasis on Information
Science.
Findings reveal that (1) information science as an academic discipline is relatively new in
SSA, and almost exclusively offered in library schools except ARCIS and SISA
programmes; (2) the size of information scientists is very small; (3) there's a general lack
of highly qualified faculty; (4) small level of IT in the curricula; (5) limited laboratory and
bibliographic facilities; (6) lack of standards for accreditation; (7) inadequate funding; and
(8) lack of alumni association, and academic links. Due to the differences in the levels of
development, the situation in the US and UK was comparatively better. The overall pattern
of the courses, their durations, and admission requirements share many features in all
programmes.
iv
SISA programme has been recognized as very strong, more IT oriented, and relevant to
LIS employment and market demands. Career developments of SISA graduates seem to
be excellent, and career prospects for information scientists are promising within
governmental, private, and international organizations.
Future possibilities and recommendations focus on active service and unity of purpose
among LIS schools, professional associations, professionals in the field, and the user
community. Recognition of information as a vital resource for socio-economic
development, by the governments and the private sector, is paramount to the future of
information science education in SSA. The need for the curricula to reflect and remain
responsive to the developments in the "Information Age" has been underscored. Profiles
of information scientists and schools of information science in SSA have been developed
to facilitate the invisible college.
This study, as is expected, would help Library and Information Science Schools in SSA
improve their academic programmes, build cooperation among schools and their products
thereby building and strengthening a strong community of information professionals in the
region.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr.G.G.Chowdhury (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: INFORMATION SCIENCE;
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
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INNOCENT, R. (2012). INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
. (Thesis). Addis Ababa University. Retrieved from http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/2842
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
INNOCENT, RUGAMBWA. “INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
.” 2012. Thesis, Addis Ababa University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/2842.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
INNOCENT, RUGAMBWA. “INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
.” 2012. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
INNOCENT R. INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
. [Internet] [Thesis]. Addis Ababa University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/2842.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
INNOCENT R. INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
. [Thesis]. Addis Ababa University; 2012. Available from: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/2842
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Addis Ababa University
24.
INNOCENT, RUGAMBWA.
INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
.
Degree: 2012, Addis Ababa University
URL: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/2847
► This thesis examines the trends in information science education being offered at master's degree level within Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa, with a view to identifying its…
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▼ This thesis examines the trends in information science education being offered at master's
degree level within Anglophone Sub-
Saharan Africa, with a view to identifying its current
status, core competencies shared in common, problems, and implications, and to draw
suitable recommendations for its improvement. Analysis of the master's programmes being
offered in the selected schools in the US and UK was done to identify the situation in the
"Developed World".
A survey was conducted using self-administered questionnaires, interviews and informal
discussions. Respondents included the Deans of schools of LIS, SISA graduates from 1990
to 1996, and experts in the field. Analysis of the survey findings was based on the Unesco
Modular Curriculum for Information
Studies, with special emphasis on Information
Science.
Findings reveal that (1) information science as an academic discipline is relatively new in
SSA, and almost exclusively offered in library schools except ARCIS and SISA
programmes; (2) the size of information scientists is very small; (3) there's a general lack
of highly qualified faculty; (4) small level of IT in the curricula; (5) limited laboratory and
bibliographic facilities; (6) lack of standards for accreditation; (7) inadequate funding; and
(8) lack of alumni association, and academic links. Due to the differences in the levels of
development, the situation in the US and UK was comparatively better. The overall pattern
of the courses, their durations, and admission requirements share many features in all
programmes.
iv
SISA programme has been recognized as very strong, more IT oriented, and relevant to
LIS employment and market demands. Career developments of SISA graduates seem to
be excellent, and career prospects for information scientists are promising within
governmental, private, and international organizations.
Future possibilities and recommendations focus on active service and unity of purpose
among LIS schools, professional associations, professionals in the field, and the user
community. Recognition of information as a vital resource for socio-economic
development, by the governments and the private sector, is paramount to the future of
information science education in SSA. The need for the curricula to reflect and remain
responsive to the developments in the "Information Age" has been underscored. Profiles
of information scientists and schools of information science in SSA have been developed
to facilitate the invisible college.
This study, as is expected, would help Library and Information Science Schools in SSA
improve their academic programmes, build cooperation among schools and their products
thereby building and strengthening a strong community of information professionals in the
region.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. G. G. Chowdhury (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: INFORMATION SCIENCE;
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
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INNOCENT, R. (2012). INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
. (Thesis). Addis Ababa University. Retrieved from http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/2847
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
INNOCENT, RUGAMBWA. “INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
.” 2012. Thesis, Addis Ababa University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/2847.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
INNOCENT, RUGAMBWA. “INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
.” 2012. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
INNOCENT R. INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
. [Internet] [Thesis]. Addis Ababa University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/2847.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
INNOCENT R. INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: PRESENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
. [Thesis]. Addis Ababa University; 2012. Available from: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/2847
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Ghana
25.
Akambase, A.B.
Banking Competition and Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Degree: 2018, University of Ghana
URL: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30675
► This study aimed at evaluating the effects of competition on cost efficiency in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) banking sector. The study also evaluated how competition…
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▼ This study aimed at evaluating the effects of competition on cost efficiency in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) banking sector. The study also evaluated how competition affects bank cost efficiency in the various income classifications of countries in SSA. Due to the endogeneity issue between competition and cost efficiency, a two-stage least square method was employed to examine the data of 235 banks from 17 SSA during the period 2006-2012. The results of the study show evidence that competition and cost efficiency levels in SSA banking system are low and have been unstable over the study period, although they have improved marginally. There is also evidence of significant variations in cost efficiency of banks operating in the three different income groups of countries in SSA. Higher market power of banks in SSA banking industry is found to improve cost efficiency and, thus, it does not allow bank managers in SSA to enjoy a quiet life with no motivation to increase cost efficiency. Concerning the control variables, the coefficients of bank size and asset growth are positive and have no significant effect on bank cost efficiency. Market share, bank capitalization, Credit risk and asset growth square have a negative and significant effect on cost efficiency. The coefficients of inflation rate and Per capita GDP growth are positive and statistically significant. Regarding how competition affects cost efficiency of banks in the three-income classification of SSA countries, the findings reveal that competition is harmful to cost efficiency in low- and lower-middle income countries. However, it has no effect on cost efficiency in upper-middle income countries. The control variables in the various income groups of countries also exhibit different effects on cost efficiency in terms of significance and signs of coefficient and this suggests varied policy prescriptions.
Subjects/Keywords: Banking;
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Akambase, A. B. (2018). Banking Competition and Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Masters Thesis). University of Ghana. Retrieved from http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30675
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Akambase, A B. “Banking Competition and Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.
” 2018. Masters Thesis, University of Ghana. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30675.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Akambase, A B. “Banking Competition and Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.
” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Akambase AB. Banking Competition and Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.
[Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Ghana; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30675.
Council of Science Editors:
Akambase AB. Banking Competition and Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.
[Masters Thesis]. University of Ghana; 2018. Available from: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30675
University of Ghana
26.
Osei, O.K.A.
Foreign Direct Investment, Institutions and Industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
.
Degree: 2018, University of Ghana
URL: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30392
► This study aims at establishing the role that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and institutions played in the industrialisation process of 40 sub-Saharan African countries,…
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▼ This study aims at establishing the role that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and institutions played in the industrialisation process of 40 sub-Saharan African countries, over the period of 1996 through 2015. The study used a fixed effect method (FEM) of estimation for the analysis of data which was sourced from the world development indicators (WDI) database of the world bank and the world governance indicators (WGI) database, also of the world bank.
The findings of the study based on the model employed show that inward FDI played a neative role in the industrialisation process of the countries under study. That is to say FDI was detrimental to industrialization. Institutions were however important in the promotion of the manufacturing sector of these countries. Good institutions provide a good business climate that enable the growth of the industrial sector of Sub- Saharan African countries. Other findings from the study showed that Agriculture and Export had a negative relationship with Industrialization, whereas, Imports had a positive relationship with Industrialization.
Subjects/Keywords: Investment;
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Osei, O. K. A. (2018). Foreign Direct Investment, Institutions and Industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
. (Masters Thesis). University of Ghana. Retrieved from http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30392
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Osei, O K A. “Foreign Direct Investment, Institutions and Industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
.” 2018. Masters Thesis, University of Ghana. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30392.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Osei, O K A. “Foreign Direct Investment, Institutions and Industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Osei OKA. Foreign Direct Investment, Institutions and Industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Ghana; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30392.
Council of Science Editors:
Osei OKA. Foreign Direct Investment, Institutions and Industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
. [Masters Thesis]. University of Ghana; 2018. Available from: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30392
University of Ghana
27.
Wahab, S.
Trade Openness and Unemployment: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
.
Degree: 2018, University of Ghana
URL: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/28119
► Whiles unemployment remains a challenge in Sub-Saharan African countries, trade openness has been identified in the literature as unemployment inducing. Nevertheless, the assessment of the…
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▼ Whiles unemployment remains a challenge in Sub-Saharan African countries, trade openness has been identified in the literature as unemployment inducing. Nevertheless, the assessment of the effect of trade openness on unemployment has not received much attention in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study therefore empirically investigates the effects of trade openness on aggregate unemployment and youth unemployment in SSA.
The study adopts the system GMM estimator in order that consistent and efficient estimates are obtained and to control for endogeneity in the estimation model. Using data for thirty-five SSA countries for the years 1991 to 2015, this study finds that an increase in trade openness results in lower aggregate and youth unemployment in the region. However, the magnitude of the effect of trade openness on youth unemployment is higher than that of aggregate unemployment.
The study further shows an inverse relationship between real GDP per capita and unemployment. On the other hand, government expenditure, urbanization, real GDP growth, inflation and credit to the private sector are found to have a positive significant effect on unemployment in SSA. However, no significant relationship is observed between FDI and unemployment and Domestic investment and unemployment.
It is recommended that Governments of SSA countries should take pragmatic measures to promote trade especially through the reduction of tariff and non-tariff barriers. In addition, inflation must be controlled and investments must also be channeled to sectors that are employment generating.
Subjects/Keywords: Trade;
Sub-Saharan Africa;
Unemployment
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Wahab, S. (2018). Trade Openness and Unemployment: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
. (Masters Thesis). University of Ghana. Retrieved from http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/28119
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wahab, S. “Trade Openness and Unemployment: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
.” 2018. Masters Thesis, University of Ghana. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/28119.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wahab, S. “Trade Openness and Unemployment: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Wahab S. Trade Openness and Unemployment: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Ghana; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/28119.
Council of Science Editors:
Wahab S. Trade Openness and Unemployment: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
. [Masters Thesis]. University of Ghana; 2018. Available from: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/28119
Drexel University
28.
Johnson, Rachelle.
Coca-Cola and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of Sustainable Development in Education in Kenya.
Degree: 2019, Drexel University
URL: https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/idea%3A11026
► The launch of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 included the private sector as a key actor to improve sustainable development across 17…
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▼ The launch of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 included the private sector as a key actor to improve sustainable development across 17 targets, including education. Utilizing a qualitative case-study approach, the research provides insight into the implementation of a Fortune 500 U.S.-based company's investment in sustainable development through exploration of the Coca-Cola Company's corporate social responsibility (CSR) education programs in Kenya and their impact on the beneficiary. The following questions guided this research: a) How does Coca-Cola represent its CSR education activities in public relations materials? b) Who are Coca-Cola's partners for program planning, implementation, and evaluation of CSR education activities in Kenya and what is the value of Coca-Cola's work to these partners? c) What challenges have Coca-Cola partners experienced implementing CSR education activities in Kenya? d) What strategies did Coca-Cola develop to overcome such challenges? e) What challenges or tensions remain and what does this suggest for the futher of CSR in education? Through an exploration of Coca-Cola's partners, specifically those working on water conservation, entrepreneurship, and scholarships, this study illuminates the ways business-society relationships in education can work to overcome structural barriers limiting access to education, such as financial constraints, discriminatory sociocultural beliefs, and gender inequality. The study contributes to the literature on corporate social responsibility, education, and international development.
Ed.D., Educational Leadership and Management – Drexel University, 2019
Advisors/Committee Members: Kelly, Kristy, School of Education.
Subjects/Keywords: Education; Sub-Saharan Africa; Sustainability
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Johnson, R. (2019). Coca-Cola and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of Sustainable Development in Education in Kenya. (Thesis). Drexel University. Retrieved from https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/idea%3A11026
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Johnson, Rachelle. “Coca-Cola and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of Sustainable Development in Education in Kenya.” 2019. Thesis, Drexel University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/idea%3A11026.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Johnson, Rachelle. “Coca-Cola and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of Sustainable Development in Education in Kenya.” 2019. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Johnson R. Coca-Cola and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of Sustainable Development in Education in Kenya. [Internet] [Thesis]. Drexel University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/idea%3A11026.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Johnson R. Coca-Cola and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of Sustainable Development in Education in Kenya. [Thesis]. Drexel University; 2019. Available from: https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/idea%3A11026
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Rutgers University
29.
Ilunga, Yvan Yenda, 1986-.
Go green or stay on red: critical time in humanitarian action.
Degree: PhD, Global Affairs, 2019, Rutgers University
URL: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60532/
► This dissertation focuses on humanitarian action and security in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the DRC and the Central Africa region. Using the humanitarian-security-development paradigm, I…
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▼ This dissertation focuses on humanitarian action and security in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the DRC and the Central Africa region. Using the humanitarian-security-development paradigm, I tackle the problem of the ineffectiveness of the traditional approach to humanitarian intervention in Africa, and provide a critical path to a systemic shift towards long-term stability and security by developing innovative institutional and operational mechanisms for peace recovery.
On the security front, I argue that peace recovery through humanitarian action requires that the anchors of traditional security in indigenous Africa, based on sociological factors such as ethnicity and cultural dynamics, be integrated into the modern security framework. In addition to the security factor, I contend that addressing the issue of identity crises that are engendered and fueled by displacement during violent conflicts is equally important for long-term recovery. I argue that this could best be accomplished by applying an overarching ideology, such as Pan-Africanism, to aid in the victims’ construction of a more inclusive identity.
Additionally, to further ensure effectiveness in humanitarian operations and delivery, I argue that the crisis of institutional deficits should be addressed through the empowerment and participation of local actors such as church leaders, organizations in civil society, traditional leaders, and other local authorities who are currently excluded or ignored in the design and implementation of humanitarian policies and strategies, despite their influential roles in local communities. I further emphasized that such an effort by itself would not be successful if sustainable solutions to the problem of post-conflict military integration are not provided. Hence, I suggest the use of transitional public security principles, focusing on rebuilding trust within the military ranks, professionalization of the defense forces, and the restoration of civilian-military relations as critical elements.
To the above systemic and structural efforts, I argue for the adoption of practical solutions that address the issue of refugees and IDPs who are living in the camps. These strategies should be people-centered, with the victims making any decision regarding their readiness to return or reintegrate into their old communities. This readiness must be followed by an assessment of factors such as the institutional viability and legitimacy of actors in the country or communities to which refugees or IDPs might return. I conclude that it is only when these factors are considered and implemented under one integrated humanitarian framework that security will be recovered and peace guaranteed, both in the DRC and in the broader region.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bronner, Stephen Eric (chair), Hinton, Alexander (internal member), Ramsamy, Edward (internal member), Matyók, Thomas (outside member).
Subjects/Keywords: Humanitarian intervention – Africa; Sub-Saharan
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Ilunga, Yvan Yenda, 1. (2019). Go green or stay on red: critical time in humanitarian action. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rutgers University. Retrieved from https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60532/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ilunga, Yvan Yenda, 1986-. “Go green or stay on red: critical time in humanitarian action.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60532/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ilunga, Yvan Yenda, 1986-. “Go green or stay on red: critical time in humanitarian action.” 2019. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Ilunga, Yvan Yenda 1. Go green or stay on red: critical time in humanitarian action. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60532/.
Council of Science Editors:
Ilunga, Yvan Yenda 1. Go green or stay on red: critical time in humanitarian action. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2019. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60532/
Indiana University
30.
Schauert, Paul W.
Staging nationalism| Performance, power, and representation in Ghana's state dance ensembles.
Degree: 2011, Indiana University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3449575
► Through an application of a phenomenological lens, this dissertation explores the lived experiences of participants in Ghana's state dance ensembles as they negotiate the…
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▼ Through an application of a phenomenological lens, this dissertation explores the lived experiences of participants in Ghana's state dance ensembles as they negotiate the matrix of local and global power dynamics that inform the process of staging their nation. The author argues that performance, power, and representation are inextricably linked, forming a fundamental part of individuals' experience of nationalism. Supplementing studies of nationalism that focus on its function as a broad, or mass, social movement, this work concentrates on the subjectivities and experiences of individuals, foregrounding the voices of consultants to highlight the multiple perspectives of Ghanaian nationalism that coexist and compete with one another. With this focus, the author illustrates that while artists work to engender and propagate unity, or unitary identity, participants embody national ideology subjectively as uniquely situated individuals. As such, while many may believe in the nation and the ideals of nationalism, individuals do not lose sight of their own personal goals. Thus, this work shows how individual performers break through disciplinary mechanisms of control to "instrumentally" harness state/national institutions, such as the dance ensembles, to effectively empower themselves through their ingenuity, creative talents, and entrepreneurial efforts. Additionally, throughout the dissertation, the author shows how power is "glocalized," or, how global and local practices and markers of authority co-mingle to create idiomatic power structures within Ghana. Building on the notion of cosmopolitanism put forth by Thomas Turino, the author proposes the concept of "cosmopolitan modes of power" to describe this phenomenon. Furthering the author's exploration of glocal power, this study investigates the ways in which performers overtly, and covertly, express their views and criticisms of state power, showing that artists come to understand the state and their relationship to it through artistic performance. Finally, unlike many studies of African nationalism, this work primarily focuses on the post-independence period, exploring how nationalism remains relevant when it is not in direct opposition to colonial rule. The author argues that nationalism requires a relentless re-formation to meet the demands of contemporary circumstances, resulting in a profound renewal and re-shaping of the nation as well as the individual self.
Subjects/Keywords: Anthropology, Cultural; Dance; Music; Sub Saharan Africa Studies
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Schauert, P. W. (2011). Staging nationalism| Performance, power, and representation in Ghana's state dance ensembles. (Thesis). Indiana University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3449575
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Schauert, Paul W. “Staging nationalism| Performance, power, and representation in Ghana's state dance ensembles.” 2011. Thesis, Indiana University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3449575.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Schauert, Paul W. “Staging nationalism| Performance, power, and representation in Ghana's state dance ensembles.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Schauert PW. Staging nationalism| Performance, power, and representation in Ghana's state dance ensembles. [Internet] [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3449575.
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Council of Science Editors:
Schauert PW. Staging nationalism| Performance, power, and representation in Ghana's state dance ensembles. [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2011. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3449575
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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