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  1. Seeking Impact and Visibility
    Author: Trotter, Henry; Kell, Catherine; Willmers, Michelle; Gray, Eve; King, Thomas
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  African Minds, Cape Town ; OAPEN FOUNDATION, The Hague

    African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms. In addition, traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impact... more

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    African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms. In addition, traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impact Factor, fail to make legible all African scholarly production. Many African universities also do not take a strategic approach to scholarly communication to broaden the reach of their scholars'work. To address this challenge, the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was established to help raise the visibility of African scholarship by mapping current research and communication practices in Southern African universities and by recommending and piloting technical and administrative innovations based on open access dissemination principles. To do this, SCAP conducted extensive research in four faculties at the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius and Namibia.To address this challenge, the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was established to help raise the visibility of African scholarship by mapping current research and communication practices in Southern African universities and by recommending and piloting technical and administrative innovations based on open access dissemination principles. To do this, SCAP conducted extensive research in four faculties at the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius and Namibia.

     
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  2. Interdisciplinarity and impact
    distinct effects of variety, balance and disparity
    Author: Wang, Jian; Thijs, Bart; Glänzel, Wolfgang
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  KU Leuven, Fac. of Economics and Business, Leuven

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: MSI ; 1422
    Subjects: interdisciplinarity; impact; citation delay; variety; balance; disparity
    Scope: Online-Ressource (21 S.), graph. Darst.
  3. South Africa's post-apartheid microcredit-driven calamity
    comparing 'developmental' to 'anti-developmental' local financial models
    Author: Bateman, Milford
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  ÖFSE, Wien

    Microcredit was once universally lauded in international development community circles as a 'magic bullet'. Using the example of South Africa, this paper shows that microcredit has actually been an 'anti-developmental' local financial model, and one... more

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    Microcredit was once universally lauded in international development community circles as a 'magic bullet'. Using the example of South Africa, this paper shows that microcredit has actually been an 'anti-developmental' local financial model, and one of the most calamitous financial sector interventions in South Africa's short post-apartheid history. This disastrous performance is compared to a benchmark local financial model that I call the 'developmental' local financial model, a financial model that was quite decisive to much recent European and Asian local economic development success. Overall, microcredit can be viewed as South Africa's own sub-prime-style disaster which, like the original US version, has mainly served to benefit a tiny financial elite working within and around the microcredit sector, whilst simultaneously destroying many of the most important pillars of the economy and society. It clearly behoves policymakers in South Africa, as well as policymakers in other African countries and elsewhere in the international development community, to learn from South Africa's negative experience with 'anti-developmental' microcredit to date and promote alternative 'developmental' local financial models.

     
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    hdl: 10419/98815
    Series: Working paper / ÖFSE, Österreichische Forschungsstiftung für Internationale Entwicklung ; 47
    Subjects: Microcredit; South Africa; impact; poverty; informal; SME; institutions
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  4. Putting it all together
    aggregating impacts of school-feeding programmes on education, health and nutrition: two proposed methodologies
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  WIDER, Helsinki

    School-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of school-feeding cover several domains. Key to the overall assessment of these benefits is understanding how different implementation... more

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    School-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of school-feeding cover several domains. Key to the overall assessment of these benefits is understanding how different implementation models compare to each other and to other interventions with similar aims and objectives. Herein, we outline two approaches to aggregating outcomes for school-feeding. One involves a discreet choice experiment to derive utility scores combining outcomes into one measure. The other focuses on quality-adjusted school days as a measure that encompasses the varied benefits from school-feeding. The discrete choice experiment offers a robust method to integrate utility for different benefits. However, it necessitates a complex design. The quality-adjusted school days method has greater simplicity. When developed, different interventions that aim to foster learning could be meaningfully compared.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    hdl: 10419/96338
    Series: Working paper / World Institute for Development Economics Research ; 2014/036
    Subjects: impact; school-feeding; learning; economic indicators
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