The article reports that several Western multinationals have exploited the bioresources in Africa. U.S.-based environmental group Edmonds Institute published a report that identifies several materials taken from African to laboratories in Western countries. Among the companies named in the report, Great...
Central Africa - Colonialism, Resources, Exploitation: The pioneer colonizer in Central Africa was Leopold II, king of the Belgians. The early attempts of his father, Leopold I, to found colonies in remnants of the Spanish empire in the Pacific or Americ
Important trading partners include the United Kingdom, France, the United States, South Africa, and China. Services, labour, and taxation Significant growth in tourism since the 1970s has made it a major earner of foreign exchange. Information and communication technology is becoming increasing ...
Many reviewers of the state of the public services in Africa today have very hard words to say about them. The services are described as ineffective, inefficient, performing poorly and a host of basically negative de scriptions. The poor performance is either ascribed to; 1) the failure to ...
health status. Malmquist index model was selected for estimating the changes in total factor productivity of provinces and exploring whether their performance had improved over the years. Tobit regression model was then employed in which the efficiency score obtained from the DEA computations used as ...
Due to the armed conflict, agricultural production has been substantially reduced, leading to food shortage on the global scale, with countries of Middle East and Africa most affected11. A lack of access to safe water and the environmental threats urge prompt action. Priority activities should ...
The Great War of Africa, a conflagration that has sucked in soldiers and civilians from nine nations and countless armed rebel groups, has been fought almost entirely inside the borders of one unfortunate country – the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
Report of the FAO Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagic Fish off Northwest Africa, Dakar, Senegal, 21-25 May 2012 The eleventh meeting of the FAO Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagic Fish off Northwest Africa was held in Casablanca, Morocco from 24 to 28 Ma......
Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa: From Soil Science to Agricultural Impact; Earthscan: Oxford, UK, 2007. [Google Scholar] Agboh, G.C.; Asamoah, J.; Mensah, I.; Iddrisu, I.M. Determinants of access to water and sanitation among persons with disabilities in Tamale Metropolis of...
These nations have different cultures, traditions, values and customs than those of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region; therefore, their results cannot be applied to the Middle East [156]. According to Hofstede (1984), approaches to reducing work–life conflict vary across cultures ...