ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction: Empirical Evidence from East and Southern Africa
Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC);Practical Action Publishing (2014), 254 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-1-55250-539-7 (IDRC ebook); 978-1-85339-816-2 (pbk)
1 Introduction: The ICT/poverty nexus in Africa / Julian May, Timothy M. Waema, and Elise Bjåstad, 1
2 Information and communication technologies as a pathway from poverty: evidence from East Africa / Julian May, Vaughan Dutton, and Louis Munyakazi, 33
3 Political economy of ICTs and their effect on poverty / Obadia Okinda Miroro and Edith Ofwona Adera, 53
4 Livelihood and ICTs in East Africa / Aileen Agüero, Roxana Barrantes, and Timothy M. Waema, 77
5 Access and use of ICT and its contribution to poverty reduction in Kenya / Timothy M. Waema and Obadia Okinda Miroro, 101
6 Impact of enhanced access to ICTs on small and microenterprises in Tanzania / Ophelia Mascarenhas, 133
7 Mobile phones and the food price crisis in Rwanda / Kathleen Diga, Claude Bizimana, Felix Korbla Akorli, and François Bar, 159
8 The complexities of establishing causality between an ICT intervention and changes in quality of life: CLIQ in South Africa / Heidi Attwood, Kathleen Diga, and Julian May, 179
9 Internet gone mobile in Namibia / Christoph Stork and Enrico Calandro, 205
10 Conclusion and recommendations / Ophelia Mascarenhas, 227
2 Information and communication technologies as a pathway from poverty: evidence from East Africa / Julian May, Vaughan Dutton, and Louis Munyakazi, 33
3 Political economy of ICTs and their effect on poverty / Obadia Okinda Miroro and Edith Ofwona Adera, 53
4 Livelihood and ICTs in East Africa / Aileen Agüero, Roxana Barrantes, and Timothy M. Waema, 77
5 Access and use of ICT and its contribution to poverty reduction in Kenya / Timothy M. Waema and Obadia Okinda Miroro, 101
6 Impact of enhanced access to ICTs on small and microenterprises in Tanzania / Ophelia Mascarenhas, 133
7 Mobile phones and the food price crisis in Rwanda / Kathleen Diga, Claude Bizimana, Felix Korbla Akorli, and François Bar, 159
8 The complexities of establishing causality between an ICT intervention and changes in quality of life: CLIQ in South Africa / Heidi Attwood, Kathleen Diga, and Julian May, 179
9 Internet gone mobile in Namibia / Christoph Stork and Enrico Calandro, 205
10 Conclusion and recommendations / Ophelia Mascarenhas, 227
