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From Conflict Escalation To Conflict Transformation: Actual And Potential Role Of Stories And Storytelling Among Marginalized Occupational Minorities In Southern Ethiopia, Federica De Sisto
From Conflict Escalation To Conflict Transformation: Actual And Potential Role Of Stories And Storytelling Among Marginalized Occupational Minorities In Southern Ethiopia, Federica De Sisto
International Journal of African Development
Throughout Ethiopia there are minority groups of craft workers and hunters that are excluded from the mainstream society. Pottery is fundamental for carrying water and making food, hoes and iron plough shares are essential for agriculture; cotton cloth is indispensable for clothing; leather products are used for transporting grain or storing. And yet, the specialized workers who produce these items have such a low status that many of them are still considered to be “not human” by their surrounding majorities. The phenomenon of marginalised occupational minorities is so widespread in the country that Levine described it as a “pan-Ethiopian cultural …
The Fall Of American Soft Diplomacy In Ethiopia: A Victim Of Its Own Success, Assefa Mehretu
The Fall Of American Soft Diplomacy In Ethiopia: A Victim Of Its Own Success, Assefa Mehretu
International Journal of African Development
Ethiopia’s soft diplomatic history with the United States goes back to the dawn of the twentieth century when King Menelik in 1905 responded favorably to the overtures by the United States for official relations between the two countries when Ethiopia was the only independent country in Africa. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the benchmarks of a successful engagement that had lasted for over seventy years only to suffer reversals from critical events both internal and external. A brief historical analysis will be rendered to highlight the role of the United States in the modernization of Ethiopia and …
Environment Stress And Increased Vulnerability To Impoverishment In Rural Ethiopia: Case Studies Evidence, Tesfaye Teklu
Environment Stress And Increased Vulnerability To Impoverishment In Rural Ethiopia: Case Studies Evidence, Tesfaye Teklu
International Journal of African Development
Integral to the global trends in climate change, there are slow but notable long-term changes in level of weather (e.g. slow increase in temperature and decline in rainfall) accompanied with increased weather extremes such as increased frequency and intensity of drought in Ethiopia. These changes are occurring over large geographical area including the most populous and arable highlands. Rural households in these environmentally stressed areas employ multiple strategies to manage environmental risk. However, as evident from the empirical regularities below, vulnerability to poverty persists because of households’ diminished capacity to mitigate and cope with frequent occurrence of weather extremes. The …
Comesa’S Trading With China: Patterns And Prospects, Matias Assefa
Comesa’S Trading With China: Patterns And Prospects, Matias Assefa
International Journal of African Development
As trade between China and African countries continues to expand, so does the debate as regards the developmental outcomes it is likely to produce. This paper examines the trade relations that have developed between the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and China since 2000. The bilateral trade—composed largely of exports of primary goods and imports of manufactures by the COMESA region—has registered very high rates of growth. The trade balance has been for the most part in China’s favor. The paper uses a gravity model of bilateral trade estimated by the Hausman-Taylor method for a reference sample …
Maternal Education, Linkages And Child Nutrition In The Long And Short-Run: Evidence From The Ethiopia Demographic And Health Surveys, Ambel Alemayehu Azeze, Wei-Chiao Huang
Maternal Education, Linkages And Child Nutrition In The Long And Short-Run: Evidence From The Ethiopia Demographic And Health Surveys, Ambel Alemayehu Azeze, Wei-Chiao Huang
International Journal of African Development
We used the 2000 and 2005 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys to analyze the effect of maternal education and its pathways on chronic (long-run) and acute (short-run) malnutrition inEthiopia. The pathways examined in this study are socioeconomic status, maternal health-seeking behavior, maternal knowledge of health and family planning and reproductive behavior. We find that maternal education works through all except health-seeking behavior. We also find that maternal education and its pathways are more relevant and robust in explaining chronic than acute malnutrition. Socioeconomic status is the most important factor linking maternal education and child nutritional status. Although girls’ education is …
Editor's Note, Sisay Asefa
Editor's Note, Sisay Asefa
International Journal of African Development
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International Journal Of African Development, Vol. 1, Issue 2
International Journal Of African Development, Vol. 1, Issue 2
International Journal of African Development
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