Search

Reset

Searching in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania

Showing 51-60 of 84 results

Pages

  • Document

    The effect of increased education on employment for Kenyan women

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Creation of wage jobs has not kept up with rapid growth in the workforce in sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, since the 1990s employment has become dominated by the informal sector, particularly for women. How has this affected the gender gap in employment? Does education increase women’s participation in the labour force?
  • Document

    The destination of exports determines wages in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    International trade is believed to stimulate growth and raise wages in developing countries. But there is little evidence on the impact of trade on individual workers’ incomes. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) does exporting tend to raise or lower wages for manufacturing workers?
  • Document

    Exports are key to raising incomes in Ghana and Tanzania

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Donors and policymakers have placed poverty reduction at the top of their agenda. Raising the incomes of people in poor countries will be essential. What causes incomes to rise? What policies are needed to promote better paying jobs in sub-Saharan Africa?
  • Document

    Trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2007
    Conventional approaches to measuring poverty and inequality that use money-metric data overlook social aspects of poverty. This paper uses the multidimensional, asset index, approach to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries including Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
  • Organisation

    Research ICT Africa Network

    The Research ICT Africa Network conducts research on ICT policy and regulation that facilitates evidence-based and informed policy making for improved access, use and application of ICT for social dev
  • Document

    Political parties in Africa: challenges for sustained multiparty democracy

    International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2007
    This paper analyses the status of multiparty democracy in Africa, looking particularly at the role of political parties.
  • Document

    Alcohol production and use in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Socio-economic changes have influenced an increase in alcohol consumption in Africa during the last half of the 20th century. Public health problems linked to alcohol have also risen. How has alcohol consumption in Africa changed and what have been its effects?
  • Document

    Health workforce issues and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: an analytical review

    Human Resources for Health, 2006
    This article, from Human Resources for Health, explores how the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) addresses the challenges of a health workforce bottleneck to the successful implementation of priority disease programmes.
  • Document

    Case studies of non-formal education by distance and open learning

    Commonwealth of Learning, 2000
    This research report contains case studies of distance and open learning for non-formal education (NFE) from Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
  • Document

    Birth intervals and injectable contraception in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Short intervals between births increase the risk of children dying during their first year and beyond. Use of contraception should help to increase birth intervals, but does it work? Research in nine African countries suggests that use of the injectable contraceptive, depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), actually increases the odds of short birth intervals.

Pages