Impact Initiative - Urban/Rural: Recent submissions
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A Newcomer's Guide to Life Cycle Assessment - Baselines and Boundaries
(2013)Life cycle assessment (LCA) aims to understand the environmental impact of a product or service (termed a functional unit) over its entire life cycle - using ‘standard methodologies’. The concept of LCA is simple – ... -
Broadband internet and expectations of altered development trajectories for Kenya
(2011)Only a year ago, East Africa was the last major region on Earth without fibre-optic broadband Internet connections. People were forced to rely on painfully slow and prohibitively expensive satellite connections. However, ... -
The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa: Value Chains and Networks of Connectivity-Based Enterprises in Kenya and Rwanda
(2015)Internet connectivity is widely considered to be a game changer for knowledge economies of developing countries. The arrival of submarine fibre-optic underwater cables in East Africa in 2009 and 2010 is seen by many as a ... -
The Internet and Tourism in Rwanda: Value Chains and Networks of Connectivity-Based Enterprises in Rwanda
(2015)East Africa was the world’s last major region without submarine fibre-optic broadband internet access, and until the summer of 2009 had been forced to rely on slow and costly satellite connections for access. However, the ... -
Connectivity and the Tea Sector in Rwanda: Value Chains and Networks of Connectivity-Based Enterprises in Rwanda
(2015)East Africa was the world’s last major region without submarine fibre-optic broadband internet access, and until the summer of 2009 had been forced to rely on slow and costly satellite connections for access. However, the ... -
The Impacts of Broadband Internet on the Value Chain of the Tourism Sector in Kenya
(2013)The tourism sector is regarded as the second largest source of foreign exchange revenue in Kenya. Kenya has witnessed revolutionary development of ICTs, especially the recent development in internet with the arrival of ... -
The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa: Value Chains and Networks of Connectivity-Based Enterprises in Kenya and Rwanda
(2015)Internet connectivity is widely considered to be a game changer for knowledge economies of developing countries. The arrival of submarine fibre-optic underwater cables in East Africa in 2009 and 2010 is seen by many as a ... -
The Impacts of Broadband Internet and Related Technologies on the Value Chain of the Tourism Sector in Kenya
(2013)This paper provides initial findings from a preliminary analysis of the evidence using Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model as an analytical lens. The paper establishes that broadband internet and related ICTs have brought ... -
Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2014)This piece draws on some of our previous empirical research to reflect on what connectivity means to inclusion in the ‘network society.’ Connectivity certainly isn’t a sufficient condition for inclusion and equity, and we ... -
New land, new livelihoods : agrarian change following land reform in Zimbabwe
(2010)Detailed account of research findings on the impact of land reform in Zimbabwe. -
Exploring the long-term impact of development interventions within life-history narratives in rural Bangladesh
(2010)This paper explores the long-term effects of a set of development interventions within the life trajectories of people in rural Bangladesh, using findings from 293 life-history interviews and an accompanying set of focus ... -
Beyond the Grumpy Rich Man and the Happy Peasant: Subjective Perspectives on Wellbeing and Food Security in Rural India
(2013)This paper relates different subjective approaches to wellbeing to different traditions of economic analysis. The dominant formula of ‘Subjective Well-Being’is attractive because it promises a direct ... -
Exploring energy gardens: botanic gardens and biofuels
(2014)This issue of BGjournal addresses one of the most significant global challenges – the provision of alternative energy. With the impacts of climate change ever more evident the search for reduced carbon energy sources and ...