Child survival and health care among low-income African-American families in the United States

This paper provides an assessment and analysis of the increasing rates of mortality among the children of low-income African-American families in the United States and the intensifying problem of improper health care that seems to have given rise to it. The paper first documents the nature and determinants of the problem and then addresses the issue of policy prescriptions for eradicating the dilemma. The primary problem underlying the health-care access of lowincome African-Americans is that there is neither a system of universal entitlement that ties their health care in with the rest of the population nor an explicit and comprehensive strategy for care outside the dominant private system

Bis[μ-N-(diethyl­amino-κN)dimethyl­silylanilido-κ2 N:N]bis­[chlorido­cobalt(II)]

In the title binuclear CoII complex, [Co2(C12H21N2Si)2Cl2], an inversion center is located at the mid-point between the two Co atoms in the dimeric mol­ecule. The bidentate N-silylated anilide ligand coordinates the CoII atom in an N,N′-chelating mode and provides the anilide N atom as a bridge to link two CoII atoms. The two ends of the N—Si—N chelating unit exhibit different affinities for the metal atom. The Co—Nanilide bond is 2.031 (6) Å and Co—Namino bond is 2.214 (6) Å. The four-coordinate Co atom presents a distorted tetra­hedral geometry, while the dimeric aggregation exhibits a (CoN)2 rhombus core with 1.998 (6) Å as the shortest sides and shows a ladder structure composed of Co, N and Si atoms

Sellers on the street: the human infrastructure of the mobile phone network in Kigali, Rwanda

This paper looks in detail at the social and economic background of mobile airtime sellers on the streets of Kigali. While informal networks have proved to be an invaluable resource for large multinational telecommunication companies seeking to penetrate African markets, changing technological capabilities may soon displace them. As Rwanda develops its Internet and payment systems, companies and institutions hope to provide airtime and services directly. The paper draws on interviews with airtime sellers in three neighbourhoods of Kigali to ask what this temporary source of employment has done to their long-term career prospects. While the Rwandan government information and communication technology (ICT) strategy has hereto focused on high-end ICT and business process outsourcing, this paper uses the experiences of airtime sellers to advocate for a more bottom-up approach to entrepreneurship and economic development in Rwanda. We stress that planners and researchers need to think more critically about value chains at the bottom of the pyramid, not just in terms of how informal networks can be used as temporary appendages to further the reach of formal multinational corporations, but how these new kinds of chains and networks can be re-engineered to provide permanent and sustainable livelihoods to workers and business owners at the base of the economy

The New International Economic Order, Basic Needs, and Technology Transfer: Toward an Integrated Strategy for Developmen in the Future

Conceptual premises and objectives underlying the New International Economic Order are reviewed. New perceptions of development, with respect to basic needs of peoples and the transfer and appropriateness of technology are analyzed. An integrated strategy for development is then encouraged, all within the framework of the NIEO. © 1982, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved