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1. Quality of clinical laboratory services in Rwanda
Abstract : Introduction: Poor quality health care is a serious silent public health problem worldwide, resulting in deaths, disabilities and long hospital stays with unnecessary costs. It affects patients in all countries regardless of their level of development. READ MORE
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2. Strategies of New Firms in the Formative Years of a Developing Economy : The Case of Rwanda
Abstract : This thesis explores how new firms navigate the regulatory environment of a developing economy in its formative stage to ensure their continued operations and survival. The study’s context is Rwanda which is a developing economy that is undergoing a process of reconstruction and transformation after devastation by the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. READ MORE
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3. The challenges of continuity in family businesses in Rwanda
Abstract : Focusing on a developing country, this study investigates how an owning family builds its business’ continuity. While scholars of family businesses tend to depict the continuity of a family firm in terms of family succession, preserving the family legacy, or the firm’s longevity, in the social context of a developing country that is dominated by instability and hostility, family firms are subject to day-by-day survival risks. READ MORE
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4. Effects of violent conflict on women and children : Sexual behavior, fertility, and infant mortality in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Abstract : This thesis investigates the relationship between violent conflicts and sexual and reproductive health in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The aim of the thesis is to investigate how war affects demographic outcomes across individual life courses. READ MORE
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5. Exile Warriors : Violence and Community among Hutu Rebels in the eastern Congo
Abstract : This dissertation is an anthropological study of war and violence in the volatile eastern territories of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ethnographic focus is on one of the largest rebel groups currently operating in the Congo conflicts, the Hutu-dominated Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). READ MORE