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Migrant Remittances, Household Livelihood Strategies and Local Development:
No full textThis research paper explores the impact of migrant remittances on household livelihood strategies on local development in Village 2 of Ward 19 in Tsholot-sho rural district, Zimbabwe. This is important because during the past decade Zimbabwe experienced an unusually heightened exodus of its citizens resulting in it becoming a significant net exporter of migrants. This was due to a gradual deterioration of economic and political conditions which climaxed in the pe-riod between 2008-2009. The significant outflow of human capital led to in-creased amount of remittances flowing into the country. Yet, despite this, not much has been done to attempt to assess their impact on households’ asset status and subsequently on local development especially at rural village level where small but crucial livelihood strategies tend to be invisible to national de-velopment actors.
This study thus traces the impact of remittances transferred through informal channels, exploring their potential in promoting local development, here defined as provision of basic services that promote creation of liveable communities with lessened burdens for access to basic goods and services. At-tention was given to how remittances are utilised to boost the asset base of households, cushioning them against any insecurity that may occur as a result of changes in the economic, political and climatic environments.
The conclusion reached that the utilisation of remittances in household livelihood strategies promotes local development through the promotion of small scale entrepreneurship and growth oriented enterprises which in turn create employment, though on a small scale in the study area. This is through the promotion of productive consumption by the receiving households which results in effective consumer demand due to increased income. The increased income creates opportunities for growth oriented small scale entrepreneurs, whether themselves receivers or not, who provide the demanded services for the villagers. The main effect of remittances on the local economy though was increasing the purchasing power compared to investment capital
Local economic development and migrant remittances:in rural Zimbabwe: building on sand or solid ground?
No full textWorking Paper no 523,The paper explores the impact of migrant remittances on local economic development in a locality where more than half of the households have been recipients for at least five years. The study has taken place in rural Zimbabwe and uses an ethnographic method devised for this research. The method was termed ?follow the money? and consists of a scrutiny of several rounds of
economic exchange of goods and services in the locality, starting when households
receive the cash. Consistent with previous research, the study found that remittances boost the consumption of receiving households and have a limited but positive effect on non-receiving households. Part of the cash transfers are used for equipment and investment, mostly in traditional agricultural activities. This study highlights that remittances are responsible for the creation of a significant number of jobs locally, although insecure and low waged, and a small number of growth-oriented businesses, mostly by non-recipients and
oriented to the local market. The study highlights the potential for government
intervention to further enterprise development with the last group of
entrepreneurs in order to localise the longer-term effects of remittances
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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