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Building Synergies Between Ethical And Business Values For Better Institutional Performance In Africa
(2011)
Businesses and corporate organizations globally are struggling to stay afloat amidst the
biting effects of the economic crisis. The global economic crisis, increasing competition
and the increasing cases of corporate and ...
Unobserved heterogeneity and the relation between earnings and firm size: evidence from two developing countries
(Elsevier, 2005)
Large firms in Ghana and Kenya pay much higher wages than small ones. We use panel data to show this is not the result of employing high-ability individuals. The size effect remains substantial with controls for individual ...
Adopting electricity prepayment billing system to reduce non-technical energy losses in Uganda: Lesson from Rwanda
(Elsevier, 2012)
Uganda is contemplating adopting an electricity prepayment billing system (EPBS) as an intervention to reduce non-technical energy losses. To provide more insight on EPBS a study was formulated to assess potential benefits ...
Linking the Role of Government to Internet Diffusion in Nigeria: Is the 'Giant'of Africa Awakening?
(2012)
This paper focuses on the role of government in the development of the Internet, as a representative artifact of a National Information Infrastructure (NII) of a country. We consider Nigeria, a developing country that has ...
Poverty reduction in Africa: Challenges and policy options
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2002)
The paper looks at the magnitude and evolution of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa over
the period 1980–1998. It examines the spread, depth and severity of poverty for the
region as well as for specific countries, in part ...
Persistence of Features of Traditional Healing in the Churches in Africa: The Case of the Akurinu Churches in Kenya
(2009-12)
One of the attractions of new converts from mainline churches to the African
Instituted Churches (AICs) is faith healing. Healing understood in its wider sense as
the restoration of the wholeness of life is not new to ...
Impacts of rural energy costs and availabilities in Kenya
(1987-01-01)
This study sought to examine energy-consumption patterns in a cross section of rural households in Kenya and to analyze how these use patterns relate to socio-economic, demographic, institutional, and energy market factors. ...
Introduction. China-Africa Relations: Interdisciplinary Question and Theoretical Perspectives
(BRILL, 2020-10-20)
The study of China-Africa relations has been approached from a wide array of disciplines. Three theoretical perspectives are now common in the literature: Realism, Liberalism and Social Constructivism. Realism sees China’s ...
China, region-centric infrastructure drives and regionalism in Africa
(Routledge, 2020-11-30)
This article provides a structural reading of the complexities of
region-centric infrastructure drives, African regionalism and the
role of China. Four structural layers underlying China’s
engagement in the region are ...