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There is a growing interest in the debate on aid effectiveness for assessing the impact of aid not only on economic growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence from recent in-depth country work on the impact of government policies and service provision in health and basic education in Zambia, and examines to what extent new aid approaches have contributed to the observed outcomes. It finds that limited coordination...
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The purpose of the study was to determine the perceptions of the stakeholders in early childhood education and their perceptions affect the performance of their roles in the implementation of early childhood education programmes. Parents, community members, early childhood education teachers, members of religious organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations formed population of the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to sample the early childhood schools and stratified...
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Driven by ease of communication, universities attempt to expand their reach to international students using various modes of education service delivery. The decision to expand is, however, not easy since many factors are in play. This study attempts to understand, mainly, the external factors that affect one of the four modes of education service delivery. Using the USA and the UK as destination countries, the study identifies national and multilateral factors that may hinder, or promote,...
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Ethiopia is one of the most vulnerable countries of the world to the impacts of climate change and variability. The impact is even stronger in pastoral areas of the country. However, studies on the actual climate change dynamics and its effect on food security at local and household levels are limited. The present study took Jigjiga district as a case and analyzed changes in local climate; status of household food security; the relative significance of climate related causes of food...
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The Evolution of Geomatics Education in Zimbabwe Geo information management plays a very significant socioeconomic role in the modern world and different professionals in this domain need to take time to appreciate their important contribution. Since the 1960’s a rapid professional evolution has greatly transcended the traditional role of the land surveyor creating clear shifts in role paradigms and blending this skill more firmly with the strengths of several other disciplines to give birth to the science of Geomatics.
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In this paper, I consider how mobile phones have become central to the everyday lives of students in Botswana. Using non-participant observations and focus group discussions, this ethnographic study explored why students in Botswana consider mobile phones as 'must have' technology. The devices promise them extensive connectedness with their families and friends, facilitate learning, and stimulate a sense of personal identity and belonging into social groups. The potency of mobile phones in...
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For the last three years, we have been engaged in ethnographic work with commitments to a postcritical perspective (Noblit, Flores, & Murillo, 2004). From 2008 to 2011, we have been learning and teaching with Burundian children and families with refugee status who live in southern Appalachia. We met the children and their families originally as English as second language [ESL] tutors. Each week we joined them to study English, play games, and complete homework at a ministry center or on a...
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American 2011 Libya Tactics showed super macro and micro control ability in strategic push,tactical layering and combat operation in the transformation of abroad and civil war. Policemen were force to go to the war and became one of the war subjects.So American Libya Tactics should be a special mobilization order. How police,a special armed force out of military,maintains social,state and regime stability and plays more active role in international fights is not only the problem of broad...
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Although many sub-Saharan African countries have seen notable economic growth recently, this has not always translated into good poverty reduction rates. This chapter shows how China’s dramatic poverty reduction was largely driven by growth in smallholder farming, teasing out possible lessons for Africa. The Chinese experience underlines the importance of focusing on effective agricultural growth as a means of poverty reduction in countries where most people live in rural areas, as is the...
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As an important field in comparative education,African education is unique.The author tries to explore the basic connotation of African education.African education may include African critical pedagogy, African cultural education,African scientific education and Sino-African educational relation.African critical pedagogy should be the base of African cultural education which is the base of African scientific education.As long as researchers in African education devote themselves to...
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The river Niger is the 3 rd longest river in Africa, with a stream length of 4200 km, a drainage basin of 2,170,500 km 2 of which 1,500,000 km 2 is an active basin, and an average discharge of about 6000 m 3 /s.The natural variability of its rainfall and discharge is analyzed for several major sub-basins, in the context of the West African drought which has lasted for nearly 40 years, showing two paradoxes: the increase of Sahelian runoff since the beginning of the drought due to land...