To address the problem of underfunding of health systems in SSA the Abuja Declaration of 2001 set a target to allocate 15% of a country’s budget to public health expenditure. However there is no empirical evidence on whether ...

Though child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa has declined since 2000, they are still higher than other regions of the world. This has provided impetus for increasing effectiveness of health expenditure through improved ...

The paper looks at the magnitude and evolution of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1980–1998. It examines the spread, depth and severity of poverty for the region as well as for specific countries, in part ...

This paper investigates whether form of ownership of health facilities affects the pattern of distribution of health services, their quality and composition. Kenyan data show that public ownership of health facilities is ...

This paper studies theoretically, the welfare consequences of the interaction between environment, the health status of the community, and irrigation schemes in the context of developing countries. An idea that environment, ...

As local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) assume a greater role in improving the well-being of the communities in which they operate, donors and government agencies are increasingly scrutinizing their performance and ...

The objective of this study was to analyse the cost of the gender gap in agriculture in both Kenya and Rwanda. Data were collected in Makuyu in Muranga County in Kenya and in Musambira in the Southern Province of Rwanda. ...

Gives the pattern of population distribution, as based on the 1969 Census, and outlines the changes in the demographic situation of the city's population. A comparison with the 1962 Census shows us a changing balance between ...