ICT pathways to poverty reduction : empirical evidence from East and Southern Africa /

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been proven to promote economic growth, but do we know that ICTs reduce poverty? This book provides new empirical evidence on access to and use of ICTs and their effect on poor households in four East African countries: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adera, Edith Ofwona (Editor ), Waema, T. M. (Editor ), May, Julian (Julian D.) (Editor ), Mascarenhas, Ophelia (Editor ), Diga, Kathleen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rugby : Practical Action Publishing, [2014].
Temas:
Poverty > Africa, East.
Poverty > Africa, Southern.
Information technology > Social aspects > Africa, East.
Information technology > Social aspects > Africa, Southern.
Pauvreté > Afrique australe.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect social > Afrique australe.
Poverty & unemployment.
Development studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Information technology > Social aspects
Poverty
Society.
Africa, East
Southern Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The ICT/poverty nexus in Africa / Julian May, Timothy M. Waema, and Elise Bjåstad
  • Information and communication technologies as a pathway from poverty : evidence from East Africa / Julian May, Vaughan Dutton, and Louis Munyakazi
  • Political economy of ICTs and their effect on poverty / Obadia Okinda Miroro and Edith Ofwona Adera
  • Livelihood and ICTs in East Africa / Aileen Agüero, Roxana Barrantes, and Timothy M. Waema
  • Access and use of ICT and its contribution to poverty reduction in Kenya / Timothy M. Waema and Obadia Okinda Miroro
  • Impact of enhanced access to ICTs on small and microenterprises in Tanzania / Ophelia Mascarenhas
  • Mobile phones and the food price crisis in Rwanda / Kathleen Diga, Claude Bizimana, Felix Korbla Akorli, and François Bar
  • The complexities of establishing causality between an ICT intervention and changes in quality of life : CLIQ in South Africa / Heidi Attwood, Kathleen Diga, and Julian May
  • Internet gone mobile in Namibia / Christoph Stork and Enrico Calandro.

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