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The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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This paper examines the scope for a rights-based perspective on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by focusing on right to water. The paper adapts Hohfeldian framework of elements of a right developed by Wenar. According to this, a right should be interpreted in terms of powers, privileges,...
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In 2005, Uganda’ government fundamentally shifted the direction of its microfinance (MF) policy. Hitherto it had … direction served the objectives of Uganda’s politicians to maintain political power, as it offered them an avenue to create …
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Water service to the urban poor presents challenges to political leaders, regulators and managers. We identify technology mixes of yard taps, public water points (with and without pre-paid meters) to meet alternative constraints, and reflecting populations served and investment requirements....
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We examine the viability of inorganic fertiliser use in Uganda, using the 2005/06 Uganda National Household Survey data …-crop profitability is likely to be counter-productive to the drive of increasing agricultural productivity and household income in Uganda …. Hence, the drive to increase fertiliser use in Uganda can succeed only if farmers are widely sensitized not about the …
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. fish and minibus (“matatu”) services in Uganda, East Africa since the mid-1980ties. …
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This paper uses a panel data set of 1309 households in Uganda to measure vulnerability to poverty between 1992/93 and … poverty increases with higher education attainment of the household head. Also households resident in northern Uganda are … about 60 percent more vulnerable compared to their counterparts in central Uganda. The study also finds that causes of …
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This companion paper to Chatelain and Ralf (2012), “Spurious regressions with near-multicollinearity” put their results into the contexts of the history of statistics, of the current publication bias in applied sciences and of the substantive versus statistical significance debate. This...
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Official flows account for close to half of capital flows to developing countries, and close to 90 per cent of receipts for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper documents trends in these official flows over the last three decades. The most striking trend has been declining aid volume. Following two...
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The paper carries out a deep case study of the international aid that Equatorial Guinea receives. This is an extremely interesting country because, not being a failed state, it presents very low indexes in institutional quality. Its oil richness, which began to be exploited by foreign investors...
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