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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"rural Ethiopia"”.
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Biomedical disenchantments: practices, discourses, and imaginaries of transnational biomedicalization in rural Ethiopia
… spaces produced by transnational processes in a rural Ethiopian community. I examine how Ethiopian and volunteer American physicians navigate intersections of globalized standards and technologies with site-specific clinical realities and sociopolitical structures to provide patient care and …
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Family planning for women with severe mental illness in rural Ethiopia: a qualitative study
… of women with SMI who reside in a predominantly rural area of Ethiopia Methods: A qualitative study design was used. Women with SMI who were participating in the ongoing population-based cohort study in Butajira were selected purposively on the basis of responses to a quantitative survey of …
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The determinants of off-farm employment and the impact of off-farm employment on food consumption in rural Ethiopia
… the determinants of off-farm employment in rural Ethiopia using a representative sample farm households from four regions of the country. Very few previous regional case studies assess the impact of off-farm employment on household food consumption. To fill this gap the study goes on to …
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Using Asset Poverty Measures to Understand Poverty Dynamics, Poverty Traps and Farmer Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Focus on Rural Ethiopia
… This dissertation uses panel data from Ethiopia to generate an asset-based poverty classification scheme. Regression results are used to derive an asset index and classify households into various categories of poverty. Asset index dynamics are also explored to test for the existence of …
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Non-specialist delivery of the WHO Caregiver Skills Training Programme for children with neurodevelopmental disorders: stakeholder perspectives about acceptability and feasibility in rural Ethiopia
… for delivery in diverse global contexts. Ethiopia, the country of focus in this study, has a largely rural population and a lack of specialist service providers. Additional contextual challenges, including poverty, low literacy, limited access to healthcare and a lack of specialist child …
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Rural Credit Markets in Ethiopia: Coexistence, Persistence, and Demand
… transition, persistence, and loan demand in the rural credit market using panel data. The data was collected for seven rounds (1994-2009) from 15 villages in Ethiopia. The sample size is about 1500 households for each round. . Chapter one examines the determinants of simultaneous borrowing and …
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Land tenure, investment, land markets, off-farm employment, and rural welfare in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is one of the few countries in Africa to implement large-scale land titling programmes aiming to improve land related-investments. Since 1995, Ethiopia also has partially liberalised rural land rental markets with the aim of improving the functioning of these markets. Evidence on whether …
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Three Essays on the Interactions between Agriculture and the Environment
… essay), and weather shocks and their impacts on rural households in developing countries (in the second and third essays). The first essay proposes a multimarket equilibrium approach to estimating the consumer surplus for environmentally-friendly technologies adopted by farmers. Compared to …
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Three essays on the adoption and impacts of improved maize varieties in Ethiopia
… and impacts of improved maize varieties in rural Ethiopia. The first essay estimates poverty impacts. Field-level treatment effects on yield and cost changes with adoption are estimated using instrumental variable techniques, with treatment effect heterogeneity fully accounted for in …
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Rehabilitation and sustainable use of degraded community forests in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia
The livelihoods of the people living in rural Ethiopia is closely linked to the utilisation of natural resources, particularly forests. However, the exclusion of local people from decisions relating to the use and management of the forests has resulted in a situation whereby they utilise the forest …
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Health and Poverty: The Issue of Health Inequalities in Ethiopia
… among different socio-economic groups in Ethiopia; and identify issues for policies and programmes at national and sub-national levels. This thesis examines the effect of parental socioeconomic status, maternal and delivery care services, mothers¿ bio-demographic and background …