Search for dissertations about: "development ethiopia"

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2. 1. Governing Development : The Millennium Development Goals and Gender Policy Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

   Author : Helena Hede Skagerlind; Jonas Tallberg; Kristina Jönsson; Jeffrey Checkel; Mathias Koenig-Archibugi; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Millennium Development Goals; sustainable development; gender equality; human rights; performance indicators; United Nations; Sub-Saharan Africa; Kenya; Ethiopia; economic conditionality; social influence; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Recent decades have witnessed an upsurge in the use of different forms of global performance assessments as a means to influence the behavior of states. Within the area of international development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reinforced the practice of development governance through global performance indicators (GPIs) and gained considerable agenda-setting power among the international development community. READ MORE

4. 2. Literacy and development : A study of Yemissrach Dimts literacy campaign in Ethiopia

   Author : Margareta Sjöström; Rolf Sjöström; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Adult; education; Development; Education for women; Ethiopia; Evaluation; Literacy; Literacy methods; Motivation; Rural education;

   Abstract : The problem of illiteracy has been the object of many studies during recent decades. In Ethiopia, a country which reports one of the lowest literacy rates in Africa, the Yemissrach Dimts Literacy Campaign (YDLC) was started in 1962. Its activities were concentrated to rural areas and directed primarily towards adults. READ MORE

5. 3. Agriculture for Development in the 21st Century : Evidence from Ethiopia

   Author : Emelie Rohne Till; Ekonomisk utveckling i det globala Syd; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agriculture; economic development; social capability; sub-Saharan Africa; Ethiopia; Agriculture; economic development; social capability; sub-Saharan Africa; Ethiopia;

   Abstract : The 21st century has seen a rise of optimism about the prospects for African economic development, and Ethiopia, with its rapideconomic growth in the last two decades, is at the forefront of this current wave of optimism. The rapid growth has been achievedunder a policy focus on the agricultural sector – another aspect of development that has seen a renewed wave of optimism in the21st century. READ MORE

6. 4. Trading out? : A study of farming women’s and men’s access to resources in rural Ethiopia

   Author : Åsa Torkelsson; Árni Sverrisson; Eva Meyersson Milgrom; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ethiopia; gender; economic sociology; social resources; local markets; trade; female-headed households; resource index; rural development; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : Women are over-represented among the rural poor in developing countries, and the difficulties they face in raising themselves out of poverty are well established. This thesis examines how gender structures trade in local markets and forms of sociability in rural Ethiopia, using survey data from four rural communities and three local market places. READ MORE

7. 5. Peri-Urban Land Tenure in Ethiopia

   Author : Achamyeleh Gashu Adam; Peter Ekbäck; Erling Berge; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ethiopia; formal; informal; land tenure; peri-urban; peri-urbanization; Real Estate and Construction Management; Fastigheter och byggande;

   Abstract : Urban areas in Ethiopia have been growing very quickly in recent decades, which haveled to ever increasing demand for land in peri-urban areas for housing and other nonagriculturalactivities. This has had several transformative impacts on the transitionalperi-urban, areas including engulfment of local communities and conversion of landrights and use from an agricultural to a built-up property rights system. READ MORE