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Building national M&E systems in the context of changing aid modalities: The underexplored potential of National Evaluation Societies

Holvoet, Nathalie; Dewachter, Sara - In: Evaluation and Program Planning 41 (2013) C, pp. 47-57

Changes in the aid architecture have provided a renewed impetus for monitoring and evaluation (M&E), while simultaneously imposing a major reform agenda on the key players involved. More specifically, since 1999, aid-dependent countries have been facing pressure to strengthen their national M&E...

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Social Capital and Human Capital in the Colonies: A Study of Cocoa Farmers in Western Nigeria

Obikili, Nonso - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013

I examine the relationship between social and human capital in colonial Western Nigeria. Using data on expenditure of cocoa farmers in 1952, I show that farmers in townships with higher social spending individually spend more on education. The relationship holds after controlling for various...

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Estimates of Age-Specific Reductions in HIV Prevalence in Uganda: Bayesian Melding Estimation and Probabilistic Population Forecast with an HIV-enabled Cohort Component Projection...

Clark, Samuel J.; Thomas, Jason; Bao, Le - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 26, pp. 743-774

We estimate age-specific HIV incidence and prevalence in Tanzania and Uganda in the late 1990s and forecast forward assuming no change in incidence. Comparisons between our forecasts of HIV prevalence and direct measures from the HIV/AIDS Indicator and Demographic and Health Surveys in the...

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Occupational trajectories and occupational cost among Senegalese immigrants in Europe

Obucina, Ognjen - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 19, pp. 547-580

This paper analyzes the mechanisms of occupational trajectories and occupational cost of migration among Senegalese immigrants in France, Italy and Spain. The occupational path of the Senegalese in Europe takes a U-shaped form, as the average job score declines just after the migration, but then...

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Rough Road to Market: Institutional Barriers to Innovations in Africa

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji; Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and instititonal barriers. Research into and translation of new technologies such as biotechnology products to the market requires even greater...

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Innovation performance and embeddedness in networks: evidence from the Ethiopian footwear cluster

Gebreeyesus, Mulu; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This study focuses on innovation in a cluster of informal shoemaking firms in Ethiopia - namely the Mercato footwear cluster. It examines how differently those firms are embedded in networks and how heterogeneous they are in absorptive capacity, and how this heterogeneity affects their...

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The economic importance and impacts of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in Sudan

Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This paper explains the importance of IPRs and examines the factors hindering and those contributing toward enhancing IPRs in Sudan. We find that the inadequacy of IPRs protection in Sudan is attributed to low integration in the international institutions, lack of legal issues, lack of...

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Internet Access in Africa: An Empirical Exploration

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji; Adeya, Catherine Nyaki - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2002

use of the Internet in Africa. Cross country exercise using regression shows that Internet use is constrained by …

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Systems of Innovation and Human Capital in African Development

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji; Barclay, Lou Anne - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2003

conditions the emergent systems of innovation in Africa. These effectively determine the development trajectory of the region. We … the system of innovation. Our findings suggest that Africa's present underdeveloped system of innovation in part has its … long-run development in Africa within the systems of innovation framework …

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Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities for Africa in the Information Economy

Adeya, Nyaki; Cogburn, Derrick L. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2000

Two of the key characteristics defining this historical period are the twin concepts of globalization and the information economy. This transformation - which embodies social, economic, political, technical and cultural processes - is affecting nearly all of the world's people and economies and...

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