In Kenya, some foreign economists thought it wise to disconnect some residents of a Nairobi slum from access to public water supply to test the hypothesis that – drumroll- it induces landlords to pay water rates. Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) is an experimental design that has curiously become popular with American and European social scientists […]
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The common facts of today are the product of yesterday’s research – Duncan MacDonald. On December 17, 1903, history was made when the Wright brothers took an assembly of wood, fabric and metal to the skies, going down on record as the first successful powered flight. This incredible feat was only possible thanks to decades
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What is Research? Jonathan O’Donnell of the Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne, Australia, defined research on The Research Whisperer as “the creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies and understandings”. Research deals a lot with bringing previously unknown
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We are delighted to be taking this step. After our first launch as Ibadan Review to publish research by Africans, we discovered that there was much more to be done for us to get a consistent stream of people sharing their research works. Our findings led us to taking this new multipronged approach that see
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