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Asking Questions to Understand Rural Livelihoods: Comparing Disaggregated vs. Aggregated Approaches to Household Livelihood Questionnaires
Jagger, Pamela; Luckert, Marty K.; Banana, Abwoli; … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1810-1823
This study tests the hypothesis that both disaggregated and aggregated data collection methods produce similar … methods of data collection yield substantively different estimates of livelihood strategies for two indicators: income and … demonstrate that different methods of data collection influence our understanding of rural livelihoods. …
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Donor Assistance and Urban Service Delivery in Africa
Stren, Richard - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
Sub-Saharan African cities have been growing at historically unprecedented rates. Since the early 1970s, they have welcomed international assistance involving a succession of major thematic objectives. The main agency involved in urban assistance has been
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854526
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Optimal angles for harvesting solar electricity in some African cities
Dike, V.N.; Chineke, T.C.; Nwofor, O.K.; Okoro, U.K. - In: Renewable Energy 39 (2012) 1, pp. 433-439
In recent years, the quest for renewable and sustainable energy has been extensive while solar energy has been on the vanguard of sustainable alternative and renewable energy sources due to its clean nature and cost effectiveness for most human activities such as water pumping and electric power...
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Urban economies, urban livelihoods and natural resource-based economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: The constraints of a liberalized world economy
Potts, Deborah - In: Local Economy 28 (2013) 2, pp. 170-187
There is much speculation today about how rapid economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is transforming development prospects in the region. However, in terms of a broad, multi-dimensional, understanding of the term ‘development’, into which social justice must be factored, there are...
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Securing the resurgence of African cities
Turok, Ivan - In: Local Economy 28 (2013) 2, pp. 142-157
After two decades of stagnation and decline, there has been a turnaround in the fortunes of many African economies. The implications of this for the burgeoning urban population remain unclear because the connections between economic development and urbanisation appear to be weaker in Africa than...
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Climate and environmental change and the potential for greening African cities
Simon, David - In: Local Economy 28 (2013) 2, pp. 203-217
Green economic investment has become a tool for technological innovation, energy efficiency, employment generation and environmental improvement that simultaneously mitigates and/or promotes some forms of adaptation to climate change. There is no single recipe for greening urban economies and...
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The Development Complex, rural economy and urban-spatial and economic development in Juba, South Sudan
Grant, Richard; Thompson, Daniel - In: Local Economy 28 (2013) 2, pp. 218-230
Juba, the capital of South Sudan, is the fastest growing city in Africa, exhibiting the most rapid urban expansion and growth ever to take place in the region. Despite its explosive demographic and infrastructural expansion, the urban explosion has received virtually no attention from urban...
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Passage, profit, protection and the challenge of participation
Landau, Loren B. - 2010
Accepting that successful 'development' is premised on a population's participation in a collective undertaking, we must understand urban residents'; interactions and ambitions. In African cities being transformed by geographic and social mobility, it is unclear what forms of inclusion,...
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The challenges of global environmental change for urban Africa
Simon, David - 2010
Cities - especially those with substantial poor populations - will face increasingly severe challenges in tackling the impacts of global environmental change (GEC). As economic dynamos and increasingly important population concentrations, cities both contribute substantially, and often are very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280199
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Donor assistance and urban service delivery in Africa
Stren, Richard - 2012
Sub-Saharan African cities have been growing at historically unprecedented rates. Since the early 1970s, they have welcomed international assistance involving a succession of major thematic objectives. The main agency involved in urban assistance has been the World Bank. But as its goals have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319765