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In this study, we use a long panel dataset of Ethiopian manufacturing firms for the period 1996-2009 to test certain hypotheses regarding firm performance and exporting, namely export hysteresis, self-selection, and learning-by-exporting. We find evidence for export hysteresis and the presence of high sunk costs associated with exporting. However, the magnitude of this effect has become lower when controlling for unobserved firm heterogeneity using a dynamic random effect probit model...

This chapter focuses on how teachers understand and manage the transitionfrom mother tongue education to English medium education in Uganda. Itseeks to investigate how teachers employ English and the mother tongue in theteaching and learning process. The findings reveal that government and privateschools in Uganda implement the current language policy in different ways,creating different environments for the exposure of the learners to the Englishlanguage. Moreover, teachers in the two sets...

Compulsory education in Egypt has faced many changes. During the 20th century, the main feature of Egypt’s compulsory education system has been ‘change’. Over the century the system has undergone successive changes, and the lack of any long period of stability has not helped students, parents and teachers. International organisations led by developed countries have recommended basic education to Egypt, but that contrast with educational trends in those countries. The purposes and principles...

HIV/AIDS continuous to impact young adults globally despite the gains achieved globally in infection and mortality reductions but the impact is greatest on youth in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). Rural youth in developing countries of SSA countries are equally impacted by HIV/AIDS and the major ways of preventing continuous infection and spread have been to information and encourage consistent condom use. What is least studied as initial step in the prevention of HIV infection globally and...

The effectiveness of radio as mass medium derives from its capacity to go beyond barriers of illiteracy, to strengthen democracy and governance. Participatory democracy entails a broad involvement of people in administering their nations or organizations. The populace gets involved in decision making by getting their voices heard. Private radio stations, more than the state-owned ones are better positioned and poised for the task of enhancing the mass participation in government business, by...

Cross-cultural awareness is an essential skill for managers of multinational corporations. In an increasingly globalized world, global awareness is a key proficiency that is essential to include in the curriculum of business schools (Ang, Van Dyne, & Koh, 2006 Ang, S., Van Dyne, L., & Koh, C. (2006). Personality correlates of the four-factor model of cultural intelligence. Group & Organization Management, 31(1), 100–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1059601105275267 doi:...

Purpose To investigate the relationship between two distinct measures of disability: self-reported functional limitations and objectively-screened clinical impairments. Methods We undertook an all age population-based survey of disability in two areas: North-West Cameroon (August/October 2013) and Telangana State, India (Feb/April 2014). Participants were selected for inclusion via two-stage cluster randomised sampling (probability proportionate to size cluster selection and compact segment...

The high plateaus of Algeria is a critical region to policymakers in terms of social, economic, and infrastructure development. The main goal of the present work was to monitor the climatic drought and its impact on vegetation health across the Algerian high plateaus using remote sensing techniques. Vegetation health index (VHI) showed a clear drought in the western region of the study area. The results show practically three periods of drought were evident: October to December 2006,...

This study focused on re-visiting the instructional processes in Universities and Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs) of the Amhara Region, Ethiopia.The research design was descriptive survey type and data were obtained from 204 instructors, department heads and deans.Both University and CTE instructors' practices of the instructional processes and their conceptions on effective teaching were examined.Results indicated learning into effect, the three interactive instructional processes...

This is an exploratory account of English as a Foreign Language learning strategies used by Tanzanian secondary school students. Data were gathered from 70 EFL learners in two ordinary level secondary schools in Tanzania, through a questionnaire inventory adapted from Oxford (1990). The data were then analyzed and results tabulated. Findings show that the majority of the respondents were using social strategies and relatively few were using compensation and memory...

Many adolescents are exposed to a significant amount of sexual content in the media. This has far-reaching effects on their sexual practices as this exposure is occurring at a period when most adolescents are often not sure of the choices to make, and the choices they make during adolescence affect their health when they become adults. The aim of this study was to assess the association between exposure of in-school adolescents to sexual content in the electronic media and their sexual...

Headline SOUTH AFRICA: Students pose long-term threat to ANC

Climate change and its impact has become a global and prime event of the 21 st century. Its effects on almost all spheres of human existence are worrisome and the low awareness and complete disregard for its causes, impacts and adaptation strategies call for an urgent solution. One of its effects is a sharp variability in available water resources for human use. Created in 1976 and with a current population of over 1.6 million, Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city has a growing water supply...

The Samburu region of northern Kenya is undergoing significant change, driven by factors including greater value on formal education, improvements in infrastructure and development, a shift from community to private ownership of land, increased sedentary lifestyles and global climate change. One outcome of these changes are an increasingly greater likelihood for adolescent boys to be enrolled in school rather than herding livestock on behalf of the family in a landscape shared with numerous...

In this investigation, the impact of cement dust pollution on respiratory systems of Lafarge cement workers was evaluated.A total of 120 respondents; 60 from the factory workers and 60 (controls) from Ifo, a nearby village 22 km NE of the factory were interviewed in 2014 using a modified respiratory symptom score questionnaire.Two hypotheses were formulated in null form and tested at 95% probability level.Descriptive statistics, independent and dependent t-tests were used to compare...