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A geospatial analysis of the impacts of maternity care fee payment policies on the uptake of skilled birth care in Ghana
No full textBackground: Many low and middle income countries have initiated maternity fee exemption and removal policies to promote use of skilled maternity care. After two and a half decades of these policies, uptake of skilled birth care remains low and inequalities continue to exist in many low and middle income countries. This study uses 2 decades of birth histories data to examine four maternity fee paying policies enacted in Ghana over the past 3 decades and their geospatial impacts on uptake of skilled delivery care.Methods: Bayesian Geoadditive Semiparametric regression techniques were applied on four conservative rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys in Ghana to examine the extent of geospatial dependence in skilled birth care use at the district level and their associative relationships with maternity fee paying policies focusing on the temporal trends when the policies were functional.Results: The results show that at the country-level, the policies had a positive influence on use of skilled delivery care; however their impacts on reducing between-district inequalities were trivial.Conclusions: The findings suggest that targeted interventions at the district level are essential to strengthen maternal health programmes in Ghana.<br/
AMOAKO to deliver Africa address at downing street
No full textEconomic Commission for Africa Executive Secretary K.Y. Amoako deliver an address on Africa's development challenges to an audience that entitled "Fulfilling Africa's Promise". In his address, Mr. Amoako will stress that to meet its goal of halving poverty in the next 14 years, Africa will have to double its growth rates to about 7 percent a year, a target that only Africa's fastest-growing, best-managed economies have met to date. Mr. Amoako will highlight important upcoming opportunities to meet Africa's major challenges, and will offer proposals on how Africa can address issues of debt, aid and trade. He will stress the primacy of governance, which, in addition to being about human rights and democracy, is also about building a capable state as a foundation for a new kind of international partnership
Amoako completes decade as executive secretary of UNECA
No full textEconomic Commission for Africa Executive Secretary, K.Y. Amoako Friday completes his term at the helm of the continent’s leading development think-tank. As he departs, the institution looks back on a decade of institutional reform and increasingly prominent programmatic work at the cutting edge of policy-making for African development. “My work at ECA has been the most professionally rewarding of my career,” Amoako said. “We have worked closely with African policy makers and leaders to sharpen economic and social policy and I’m proud of what we have achieved.” The Vice-President of the Canadian International Development Agency, Paul Hunt, said Amoako’s “vision, wisdom and dedication to the eradication of poverty have been inspirational.” He singled out, in particular, the contribution ECA and Amoako had made to the development of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development
Consultative meeting on partnership with ECA: opening address by K.Y. Amoako
No full textThis opening Address delivered by K.Y. Amoako at the Consultative Meeting on Partnership with ECA. Mr. Amoako, on his remarks highlighted that, ECA plans to play a significant role in enhancing the pace of these development trends in Africa
Amoako proposes new global compact with Africa
No full text"The UNCTAD Conference is being referred to as the 'New global deal for least developed countries'," said Mr. K.Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). "I want to propose that out of this, and the Financing for Development Conference, comes a 'New Global Compact with Africa'. Mr. Amoako was speaking at the opening of the Eighth Session of the ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, being held at the ECA Headquarters here from 21 - 22 November 2000, to prepare African countries for the two major events that have been mandated by the UN General Assembly to be convened during 2001: the UN High-Level Meeting on - Financing for Development -- and the 'Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs)'. "The compact would be with Africa, not for Africa," stressed Mr. Amoako. "If the rich countries are willing to invest the necessary resources, through aid, debt relief and market access to give African economies the jump-start they need, much of Africa should be able to put in place the necessary political and economic reforms to ensure that their economies take off.
Remarks of K. Y. Amoako at the Special Session on Peace
No full textRemarks of K. Y. Amoako at the Special Session on Peace. Mr. Amoako, on his remarks outlined that, the long history of women’s experiences with violence and discrimination have given them a greater understanding of the need to address peace comprehensively, a preference for constructive, rather than destructive power and often, a greater empathy for other marginalized and disadvantaged groups
Developing a CFD methodology for the analysis of flow stability in heated channels with fluids at supercritical pressures
No full textThe paper presents the first results of a systematic methodology aimed at assessing the feasibility of analyses by CFD codes of flow instabilities in heated channels containing supercritical fluids. The research makes use of features presently available in CFD models, in the aim to move step-by-step from simple channel cases towards the analysis of more realistic fuel bundle subchannels.
In the present step, basing on previous experience, the STAR-CCM+ code is adopted to solve flow stability problems in circular channels and fuel bundle slices without heating structures, in the aim to characterise the response of CFD models in the analysis of purely thermal–hydraulic instability phenomena. Some of the effects related to numerical discretisation, flow direction with respect to gravity and fluid properties are studied, comparing the stability thresholds identified by transient calculations with maps set up by in-house 1D codes developed and adopted in previous work. Both static and dynamic instabilities are observed, clearly showing the contiguity of these two kinds of phenomena as a function of inlet fluid subcooling.
Conclusions are finally drawn about the promising features of CFD codes for such applications, sketching the lines of the work already going on in order to address more realistic reactor scale conditions
The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa: address By K.Y. Amoako
No full textAddress by K.Y. Amoako at the Development Studies Centre Dublin, Ireland 03 February 2004 on Impact of HIV/AIDS on Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa. Mr. Amoako, on his remarks emphasized the important role that productive international partnerships and a new development paradigm would have to play in helping Africa to tackle these challenges successfully
The 12th Conference of African Ministers of Transport and Communications: Opening statement by K. Y. Amoako,
No full textOpening Statement by K. Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of ECA, at the 12th Conference of African Ministers of Transport and Communications. Mr. Amoako, on his statement outlined that, Regional integration has to bring equitable benefits. The international donor community is in the midst of taking increasingly concerted actions to reduce poverty in a much more focused way than in the past
Statement by K. Y. Amoako
No full textThis statement delivered by K. Y. Amoako Under Secretary-General, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa at the Conference of Planning Ministers and Resident Representatives. Mr. Amoako, on his remarks highlighted that, the timing of this Conference practically at the mid-point of the last decade of the Twentieth Century gives it great significance. Africa continues to face acute challenges. There is not a single country, which can afford to be complacent. the new world order poses grave difficulties for countries and communities that fail to adjust rapidly enough in response to shifts in global patterns of demand and supply. There are useful lessons that we can learn from the dynamic economies of South-East Asia, which have traveled from wide-spread absolute poverty to a measure of universal social well-being along the road of export-led growth and progressive integration into the world economy. This is also the Office of the UNDP Resident Representative. We are opening an exciting new chapter in our relationship
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