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Showing 1 to 20 of 233 for “"Sub-Saharan African"”.
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Essays on Development in Sub-Saharan African Countries
… the most important topics for the development of sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. This dissertation is composed of three chapters that investigate the economic returns to education (Chapter 1 and 2) and assess the policy influence on fertilizer usage (Chapter 3) in two SSA countries, Zimbabwe …
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Public debt in sub-Saharan African countries: determinants and economic effects
… researchers and policy makers, this has been the subject of an intense and ongoing debate that mainly seeks to address two issues, namely, the determinants of the growing debt and the economic effects thereof. While most of the debate centres on the advanced and emerging market economies, only a …
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Gender analysis: Sub-Saharan African nurses' migration experiences - a systematic review
… is one of these factors. Nurses' migration from Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) increases the nurse shortage in the region and further constraints the already struggling health systems. Migration literature has dominantly focused on macro push-pull, brain drain and ethics theories of migration with …
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Corporate governance and bank performance in the sub-Saharan African emerging economy.
… these regulations and corporate governance has a substantial impact on the performance of banks. Furthermore, corporate governance standards are critical in establishing and sustaining public trust in the banking sector, as poor governance can have serious negative macroeconomic effects. This …
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Heterosexual penile/anal intercourse and HIV in five sub-Saharan African countries
The HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is understood to be primarily 'sexually transmitted'. The majority of HIV prevention efforts in the region have focused on 'heterosexual sex' as the key transmission vector, without defining what 'heterosexual sex' refers to. Penile-anal intercourse (PAI) has …
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Project finance in Sub-Saharan African power plants : prevalence and influence of drivers
Electricity supply in Sub-Saharan Africa is inadequate, unreliable and costly. With cheap energy resources such as sun light, wind, hydropower, and natural gas widely available in the region, the problem is infrastructure to harness them. Given the high cost of infrastructure and other pressing …
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Accounting for the increasing securitization of LGBTI groups in sub-Saharan African states
Societies in Sub-Saharan African states demonstrate a growing hostility towards sexual minorities. SSA states have politicized LGBTI identity and characterized it as being not an authentic African identity, but a product of Western values. LGBTI identity being characterized as an existential threat …
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An overview of adult corrosive ingestion injuries in a sub-Saharan African setting
… management of adult corrosive injuries from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is scarce, with international investigative algorithms, relying heavily on computerised tomography (CT), having limited availability in this setting. AIM To investigate the corrosive injury spectrum in a low-resource setting …
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Impact of Taxation on Economic Growth: Case study of sub-Saharan African Countries
… panel regression analysis on 35 countries in sub–Saharan Africa (SSA)1 region over the 2009–2020 period. The analysis is executed using a dynamic panel regression model, System Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM). The findings of this paper suggest that different tax types have different …
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Factors influencing dignity in sub-Saharan African health systems: a qualitative systematic review
… and barriers to supporting dignity in sub- Saharan African health systems according to the three levels of the health system: interpersonal (micro), organizational (meso), and system-wide (macro). This study found facilitators and barriers to dignity are prominent and present within the …
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Perceptions, Attitudes and Acceptability of HIV Testing Among Sub-Saharan African Immigrants in Chicago
… to HIV care services and support. However, African immigrants delay testing and are often diagnosed with late stage HIV infection and symptoms suggestive of AIDS. Little attention has been devoted to understanding the barriers to testing among sub Saharan African immigrants in the United …
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Bridging the urban energy divide: equity-focused transition pathways for sub-Saharan African cities
… alternative urban energy transition pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa could simultaneously address the imperatives of equitable energy access and use across different income groups, while meeting other development and sustainability goals. Through detailed analysis of six cities - ranging from …
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Determinants and macro-volatility impact of international capital flows in selected sub-saharan African countries
… capital flows have been an important subject of discussion in the finance and development literature as well as among policymakers. Discussion on international capital flows is inspired by the associated potential benefits which, in turn, have motivated a number of countries in …
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Quantifying the Energetic Costs of Photovoltaic Pumping Systems (PVPS) for Sub-Saharan African Smallholder Farms
… smallholder farmers in developing markets like Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the high upfront cost of PVPSs remains a financial burden for many low-income farming communities. Although numerous efforts have been made to further increase the affordability of PVPSs, there is still a lack of …
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Understanding the Professional Lives of Female Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan African Schools: A Capability Perspective
… lives of female teachers in rural communities in Sub Saharan Africa. Teachers from five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sudan) provide a focus for exploring the relationship between official representations of teachers' work and the professional lives teachers create and …
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On chiefs and peace: Examining the role of traditional governance in sub-Saharan African conflict dynamics
… non-state governance structures. Particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, traditional governance structures, e.g. traditional and indigenous leadership, chieftaincies, kings and headmen, are de facto relevant in providing governance and exercising political influence alongside and beyond the state. …
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Correlates of tuberculosis and non-tuberculosis morbidity and immunity in sub-Saharan African HIV-exposed, uninfected infants
… but uninfected (iHEU), particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. These infants experience an increased risk of morbidity compared to infants who are HIV-unexposed and uninfected (iHUU), predominantly due to infectious diseases. Although the mechanisms underlying this increased vulnerability …
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Analysing the role of external debt and corruption on economic growth in the Sub-Saharan African Region
… external debt and economic growth in the Sub-Saharan African region as the roles of external debt and corruption as growth drivers or deterrents remains inconclusive. The paper employs a two-step system generalized method of moments (sysGMM) model to estimate the relationship between …
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The impact of domestic savings, financial depth, and financial innovation on economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries
… of domestic savings on economic growth in the Sub Saharan African (SSA) countries. This paper examines at what point do excessive domestic savings have detrimental effects on economic growth and in which cases can domestic savings be classified as excessive domestic savings. The dynamic panel …
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