The effects of improved sanitation on diarrheal prevalence, incidence, and duration in children under five in the SNNPR State, Ethiopia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Diarrhea is one of the leading causes of death, killing 1.3 million in 2013 across the globe, of whom, 0.59 million were children under 5 years of age.
Beyene, Habtamu +9 more
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The Effect of Targeting Credit to Married Women on Intra-household Expenditure Roles in Ethiopia [PDF]
This paper is attempted to explore the potential effects of microfinance targeted at married women on intra-household expenditure roles and women’s economic power taking the cases of two microfinance institutions in ...
Bock, B.B., Haile, H.B.
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Doing development and being Gurage : the embeddedness of development in Sebat Bet Gurage identities [PDF]
This thesis aims to contribute towards an understanding of the relationship between ethnicity and development in Africa. I examine the complex relationship between ethnicity and communal action in the Gurage People's Self-help and Development and Organisation (GPSDO), a federation of ethnically based Development Associations in Ethiopia.
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Roots and patterns in Beja (Cushitic): the issue of language contact with Arabic [PDF]
A large part of the morphology of Beja, the sole language of the Northern branch of Cushitic (Afroasiatic), belongs to the root and pattern system. This system is typologically similar to the Semitic one (particularly robust in Arabic) and is also found ...
Vanhove, Martine
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Spatial distribution of Glossina sp. and Trypanosoma sp. in south-western Ethiopia [PDF]
Background Accurate information on the distribution of the tsetse fly is of paramount importance to better control animal trypanosomosis. Entomological and parasitological surveys were conducted in the tsetse belt of south-western Ethiopia to describe ...
Abatih, Emmanuel +13 more
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Linguistic Distance among Gurage Language Varieties
Abstract This article measures linguistic distance and classifies Gurage language varieties, the branches of South Ethiosemitic languages. Previous classifications were inconsistent in sub-grouping the language varieties due to data shortage in each language variety, and the methodologies used.
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Ethnolinguistic perception and identity in Gurage
Abstract This study was conducted with the objectives of exploring the perceptions and attitudes of speakers towards language use and ethnolinguistic identity within the complex sociopolitical and linguistic milieu of the Gurage people in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional ...
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Study on street children in four selected towns of Ethiopia [PDF]
The child is the most precious asset and the focal point of development for any country. However, unless children are brought up in a stimulating and conducive environment getting the best possible care and protection, their physical, mental, emotional ...
Adefrisew, Azeb +2 more
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Some Berber Etymologies XI [PDF]
My series „Some Berber Etymologies” is to gradually reveal the still unknown immense Afro-Asiatic heritage in the Berber lexical stock. The first part with some miscellaneous Berber etymologies was published back in 1996. Recently, I continued the series
Takács, Gábor
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