South African municipalities.Practical implicationsTo provide efficient services for the inhabitants to curtail aggravated service delivery protests, there is an urgent need for the municipalities to institute effective measures to manage and maintain the infrastructure that serves the communities.Originality/...
this process and certain key factors that directly affect the poor, such as access to electricity, the affordability of electricity services, quality, and reliability of supply, access to such social services as electrified clinics and schools, economic development, and net impacts on public finances...
The majority of urban dwellers in Uganda including Nansana Municipality are daily wage earners [28], residing in slum HHs characterized by informal and unplanned settlements with poor infrastructure and inadequate sanitation facilities [23, 24]. A repeated community cross-sectional study that was ...
The Inter-American Development Bank estimated that up to 90 per cent of the roads and other infrastructure in the Honduras were destroyed. Farming, the backbone of the region’s economy, was severely crippled. About 70 per cent of the Honduras’ key crops, including ban...
Inequalities in access to and utilization of maternal and child health (MCH) care are hampering progress on the path to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. In a number of Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) population subgroups at dispropor
Many of these Southern towns and cities are dealing with crises which are compounded by rapid population growth, particularly in peri-urban areas; lack of access to shelter, infrastructure and services by predominantly poor populations; weak local governments and serious environmental issues. There is...
But times change. Refrigerated transport and the whole supermarket infrastructure made a much wider variety of fresh fruit and vegetables easily affordable (while we may have grown our own corn, growing up I never saw mushrooms or asparagus or even pineapple that didn’t come from a can). More...
Highly corrupt countries tend to under-invest in human capital by spending less on education, to over-invest in public infrastructure relative to private investment, and to have lower levels of environmental quality (Mauro1997, Tanzi and Davoodi 2002a, Esty and Porter 2002). High levels of ...
ICUs in resource-restricted settings have to function with important limita- tions, including both infrastructure and materials and human resources. It is impor- tant to address economic aspects around the provision of relatively expensive intensive care in low-income countries. Most LMICs have ...
“The current health system in Zimbabwe is in crisis. COVID-19 has made obvious all the shortfall in the system, poor funding, corruption, shortage of health workers and lack of adequate vital medicines, poor referral system and dilapidated health infrastructure,” says Bhebhe. ...