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African family and child welfare: Tradition in transition
(Joensuu University Press, 1999)
Many aspects of African traditional family patterns and child-rearing practices are increasingly being challenged by news pressures, reevaluated against emerging values and replaced by new arrangements as part of a continuing ...
Adapting to Climate Change through a Paradigm Shift in Rural Development: The Case of Westgate Conservancy in Samburu County, Kenya
(2012-08)
Climate change poses a plethora of challenges to agro-pastoral production in Africa resulting in different adaptation practices; some household-based, others community-based; many studies focus on the former. This paper ...
National culture and organizational capabilities of IT offshoring services in Kenya
(2013)
The pervasive adoption of outsourced information technology (IT) services has made the multi-billion
dollar information technology outsourcing industry become important to individual organizations and
governments as well. ...
Mitigating African Conflicts Through Securitization of Development
(DBA, Africa Management Review, 2013-08)
The 1990s introduced profound shifts in the realm of peace and security in Africa. With the demise of the Cold War, the East-West tension eased considerably. South Africa and Namibia installed democratically elected ...
Exit the State: Decentralization and the Need for Local Social, Political, and Economic Considerations in Water Resource Allocation in Madagascar and Kenya1
(2008)
This paper focuses on the iconoclasticism of water as a plentiful resource and the near universalization of decentralizing institutions to manage it. The authors explore two agro‐pastoral regions — Ambovombe District ...
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 ...
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 ...