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ICT pathways to poverty reduction : empirical evidence from East and Southern Africa / edited by Edith Ofwona Adera, Timothy M. Waema, Julian May, Ophelia Mascarenhas and Kathleen Diga.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--Africa, East.
- Poverty.
- Poverty--Africa, Southern.
- Information technology--Social aspects--Africa, East.
- Information technology.
- Information technology--Social aspects--Africa, Southern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Distribution:
- Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- Rugby [England] : Practical Action Publishing ; Ottawa [Ontario] : International Development Research Centre, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 and Uganda. It addresses the questions: Do women benefit economically from using ICTs? Are the livelihoods of rural users boosted? Which ICTs are being used by low-income entrepreneurs?
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Figures and tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; 1 Introduction: The ICT/poverty nexus in Africa; 2 Information and communication technologies as a pathway from poverty: evidence from East Africa; 3 Political economy of ICTs and their effect on poverty; 4 Livelihood and ICTs in East Africa; 5 Access and use of ICT and its contribution to poverty reduction in Kenya; 6 Impact of enhanced access to ICTs on small and microenterprises in Tanzania; 7 Mobile phones and the food price crisis in Rwanda
- 8 The complexities of establishing causality between an ICT intervention and changes in quality of life: CLIQ in South Africa9 Internet gone mobile in Namibia; 10 Conclusion and recommendations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4619-5872-5
- 1-55250-539-1
- OCLC:
- 876861033
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