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Predicting cell phone adoption metrics using satellite imagery [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Approximately half of the global population does not have access to the internet, even though digital connectivity can reduce poverty by revolutionizing economic development opportunities. Due to a lack of data, Mobile Network Operators and governments struggle to effectively determine if infrastructure investments are viable, especially in greenfield ...
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Worldviews and the everyday politics of community water management
Water Alternatives, 2021 This article highlights one important reason why attempts to achieve sustainable development through community management often fail – the neglect of worldviews.
Frances Cleaver +2 more
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Small Area Estimation of Health Outcomes [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Small area estimation (SAE) entails estimating characteristics of interest for domains, often geographical areas, in which there may be few or no samples available. SAE has a long history and a wide variety of methods have been suggested, from a bewildering range of philosophical standpoints.
arxiv
Fresh Money for Health? The (False?) Promise of “Innovative Financing” for Health in Malawi
Health Systems & Reform, 2018 Since 2013, the government of Malawi has been pursuing a number of health reforms, which include plans to increase domestic financing for health through “innovative financing.” As part of these reforms, Malawi has sought to raise additional tax revenue ...
Collins Chansa +6 more
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Treated as ‘niggers’ in our own country: lived experiences of Rastafarians in the Democratic Malawi [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2020 The focus of this paper is on the lived experiences of Rastafarians in post-1994 Malawi. The one significant change brought about by the elections of 1994 was the amendment of the constitution which had long ignored issues pertaining to human rights ...
Steward Maganga, Luvuyo Ntombana
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A collaborative tool for mobilizing knowledge in agrobiodiversity and the interface with climate change: the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research [PDF]
, 2015 Poster presented at 2nd ANAFE International Symposium.
Bij de Vaate, M. +4 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores how we might integrate local traditional values into a systems approach for analyzing and maximizing localization in the context of foreign aid. The paper situates localization and its operationalization in the older and broader literature on the political economy of foreign aid.
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
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Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 1996 Malawi is an example of the utter extremes of press censorship. It never experienced press freedom until 1993. The Malawi people are still bitter after three decades of Banda's rule. The people's new experience in press freedom has given them their first taste of democracy.
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Telecommunications Reform in Malawi [PDF]
, 2003 In 1998 the Government of Malawi decided to reform its telecommunications sector. Although the reform was ambitious in some ways, it was modest when compared with the most ambitious reforms adopted elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. The two main accomplishments were splitting the incumbent fixed line monopoly, the Malawi Post and Telecommunications ...
George Clarke +2 more
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The Impact of Rule of Law on the Stocks’ Price Index in Amman Stock Exchange (Jordan): An Econometric Study (1998-2017) [PDF]
, 2023 This study aimed to investigate the impact of Rule of Law on the stocks’ price index in Amman Stock Exchange over the period (1998-2017). Several diagnostic tests have been applied, such as Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) for stationarity. The results have
Malawi, Ahmad Ibrahim
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