The Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) is the overarching strategy for Malawi for the five years from 2006/07 to 2010/2011 fiscal years. The purpose of MGDS is to serve as a single reference document for policy makers in government, private sector, civil society organizations, donors...
The Malawi government has created anenabling framework for climate change managementthrough various strategies and plans. These include Vision 2020, National Climate Change Management Policy and the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) I, II and III. These are supported by earlier strategies i...
Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) are the two major threats to cassava production in eastern and southern Africa. There have been several interventions over the years in the fight against the two diseases. Whether these interventions have been effective or not ...
In 2020, there were more than one million cases of cancer in Africa and more than 700,000 cancer-related deaths [4], with exponential growth in cases and mortality expected in the coming decades [5]. It is predicted that by 2060 Africa will have the second greatest proportional regional ...
Alongside revenue, governance impacts SDG progress, and government spending achieves better results in well-governed countries [21,22]. Well-governed countries are more likely to encourage business sector development and investment, enjoy economic growth [23,24], and have robust institutions and politic...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) (2017) drinking-water guideline is 1.5 mg/l; below this, concentrations promote teeth and bone growth; above, fluoride replaces apatite in teeth causing dental fluorosis (DenBesten and Li, 2011). Prolonged, excessive exposure causes skeletal fluorosis (Haimanot...
Models show that introducing or increasing subsidies generally results in positive effects for consumers and wider economic growth. However, the models indicate that the way subsidies are funded, world input prices and beneficiary targeting all have important influences on predicted outcomes. The authors...
For this reason, the population of malaria cases, m(t), can be modelled by the exponential growth during wet season onset and exponential decay in the onset of the dry season. The exponential growth and decay may be simple but may also contain more than two terms due to multivariate ...
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