Few studies address the real effects of international capital flows. Instead of a crosssectional design, this study exclusively examines time-series data from nine countries. Four cases – Nigeria, Zimbabwe, India, and Pakistan – produce evidence that either FDI or FPI adversely affect growth or savings rates, while two cases produce some evidence of a benevolent effect – Uganda and Sri Lanka. T...

Heavily subsidizing essential health products through existing health infrastructure could substantially improve health in sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, widespread concern that poor governance – in particular, limited health worker accountability – seriously undermines the effectiveness of subsidy programs. Using innovative audits of targeted bed net distribution programs in Ghana, Ken...

We describe a new species of giant spitting cobra, Naja ashei sp. nov., from eastern and north-eastern Africa. The species was previously regarded as a colour phase of the black-necked spitting cobra, N. nigricollis. However, mtDNA sequence data show it to be more closely related to N. mossambica than N. nigricollis. The new species is diagnosable from all other African spitting cobras by the p...

Introduction It is an undisputed fact that the abolition of primary school fees has led to vast enrollment gains in several countries. After fees were abolished in Malawi in 1994 and in Uganda in 1997, enrollment in both countries grew by 68 percent (Avenstrup, Liang & Nellemann, 2004). Lesotho’s graduated abolition of fees, beginning in 2000, led to a Grade 1 enrollment increase of 75 percent,...

LADDER is a research project funded by the Policy Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) that seeks to identify alternative routes by which the rural poor can climb out of poverty. LADDER is working with nearly 40 villages and 1,200 households in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya to discover the blocking and enabling agencies in the institutional environme...

Google Trends (GT) offers a historical database of global internet searches with the potential to complement conventional records environmental hazards, especially in regions where formal hydrometeorological data are scarce. We evaluate extent which GT can discern heavy rainfall and floods Kenya Uganda during period 2014 2018. triangulate counts flood from available media reports build an inven...

HIV/AIDS has had devastating impacts in many countries, Uganda in particular. However, Uganda is depicted as one of the most successful countries in fighting HIV/AIDS. Among others, Uganda's success story is attributed to the open general environment which allows open discussions surrounding HIV/AIDS when other countries such as South Africa and Kenya denied the existence of the disease in thei...

BACKGROUND International initiatives such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the President's Malaria Initiative have significantly increased availability and access to medicines in some parts of the developing world. Despite this, however, skills remain limited on quantifying needs for medications and ordering, receivin...

Previously reported work in Uganda Protectorate included a leprosy survey by samples of the population in a wide range of places (1). The total number of persons examined then was 14,808, and the leprosy prevalence indicated was 54 per thousand; but since the population of Uganda is over 4,000,000 it was emphasized at the time that that survey needed amplifying and extending. In pursuance of th...

Whiteflies, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) are major insect pests that affect many crops such as cassava, tomato, beans, cotton, cucurbits, potato, sweet potato, and ornamental crops. Bemisia tabaci transmits viral diseases, namely cassava mosaic and cassava brown streak diseases, which are the main constraints to cassava production, causing huge losses to many small-scale farmers. The aim of this ...