Africa has been widely recognized as the poorest continent (World Bank, 1989, 2001, 2006; Mabogunje, 2004; Bigsten and Durevall, 2008; Ogbuji, 2009; Olaopa and Uzodike, 2009; Assefa, 2010). In 2005, ...

The first part of this paper lays out the process of program design and briefly describes some of the analytical tools--including the financial programming framework, the balance sheet approach, and ...

The Nigerian Economic Society (NES) President, Prof. Adeola Adenikinju, the Nigerian Association of Macro-economic Modelers (NAMM) President, Prof. Philip Alege, and a former Director-General of the ...

The use of science in policy is a human activity embedded in social processes and structures, a point now emphasized several times. We have emphasized as well that every field of science produces ...

UnitedHealthcare is incorporating real-world evidence into pathways design and policy formulation, leveraging its members' data to evaluate the impact of different regimens on health resource ...

Social identity theory explains how people's behavior is influenced by their group identities and intergroup relationships. It has been applied in a variety of fields but has not yet been fully ...