Browsing by Author "Kebede, Abeba"

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    Investigating the Importance of Foreign Aid in Poverty Reduction: The case of Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-09) Kebede, Abeba; Goshu Ass.Prof, Andualem
    Many studies which have been conducted and the intense debates about the effectiveness of foreign aid to reduce poverty resulted three different understandings. which includes proponents of aid, opponents of aid and, groups who believes aid can be effective under certain conditions. Therefore, this study was initiated to examine the impact of foreign aid on poverty reduction in Ethiopia. The study was conducted using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model for joint integration and error correction was used to examine the long-term and short-term relationship between poverty-dependent and independent variables. Foreign aid, remittance, inflation, trade openness, gross domestic product and foreign direct investment were variables used to analyze secondary data from the period 1991 to 2015.The data were collected from World Development Indicator (WDI) data base. The result obtained revealed that foreign aid, foreign direct investment, remittance, gross domestic product and inflation have statistically significant and reduce Poverty. whereas, trade openness has significantly risen poverty in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study recommends Government should be monitor and evaluate the implementation of aid funds to make sure more effectiveness and appropriate utilization of the aid funds to reduce poverty in Ethiopia
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    A Qualitative Study on Impacts of the Presence of ASD on Families of the Autistic Children and the Support Systems in Yeka Sub-city of Addis Ababa
    (Addis ababa university, 2020-12) Kebede, Abeba; Kassaye, Commander Demelash (PhD)
    This qualitative study was concerned with exploring the effects of the presence of ASD children on the lives of the families of the autistic children who resided in Yeka Sub City of Addis Ababa, with a specific focus on woreda five, six, and seven. Together with this, the study examined the availability of family support systems for these families. The study deployed an exploratory data collection approach to learn the families’ lived experiences through the study participants’ understanding of the realities, and to answer the research questions: “what impacts does the presence of ASD children have on the lives of their families resided in woreda five, six, and seven of Yeka Sub-City, and what family interventions are available to these families’ to address the families’ life problems and restore family stability?” One male and seven female participants were participated in the data collection. In-depth in-person interview was conducted at participants’ places to explore the families’ life situation, and interview has been audio-taped. A supplementary questionnaire has been administered to the same participants in order to obtain the ASD children’s demographic data and examine availability of early intervention services. Snowball or chain referral sampling technique was used, because the population of interest was uncommon and the size of the population was too small to meet the sampling criteria. The target population was caregivers of the ASD children with diverse sociodemographic backgrounds; because they were appropriate to explain the phenomena from different perspective and provide detailed information. The data analysis involved: transcribing audio data, coding data, categorizing codes, developing themes, and presenting the findings using MS-Word and Excel applications. The study identified five major issues: 1) diagnosis and basic therapy services that the parents received to their ASD Children, (2) impacts of raising an ASD Child on the Family, (3) the influencing factors that contributed to the parents’ stressful situation, (4) parents’ inability to cope with the stressors, and (5) unavailability of family support systems. Key words: ASD, disability, family, children, parent/caregiver, impacts, effects, lived-experience, crisis, stressors, support system, participants, researcher, qualitative research, data, design, methods, themes, findings
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    A Qualitative Study on Impacts of the Presence of ASD on Families of the Autistic Children and the Support Systems in Yeka Sub-city of Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2020-12) Kebede, Abeba; Kassaye, Demelash (PhD)
    qualitative study was concerned with exploring the effects of the presence of ASD children on the lives of the families of the autistic children who resided in Yeka Sub City of Addis Ababa, with a specific focus on woreda five, six, and seven. Together with this, the study examined the availability of family support systems for these families. The study deployed an exploratory data collection approach to learn the families’ lived experiences through the study participants’ understanding of the realities, and to answer the research questions: “what impacts does the presence of ASD children have on the lives of their families resided in woreda five, six, and seven of Yeka Sub-City, and what family interventions are available to these families’ to address the families’ life problems and restore family stability?” One male and seven female participants were participated in the data collection. In-depth in-person interview was conducted at participants’ places to explore the families’ life situation, and interview has been audio-taped. A supplementary questionnaire has been administered to the same participants in order to obtain the ASD children’s demographic data and examine availability of early intervention services. Snowball or chain referral sampling technique was used, because the population of interest was uncommon and the size of the population was too small to meet the sampling criteria. The target population was caregivers of the ASD children with diverse sociodemographic backgrounds; because they were appropriate to explain the phenomena from different perspective and provide detailed information. The data analysis involved: transcribing audio data, coding data, categorizing codes, developing themes, and presenting the findings using MS-Word and Excel applications. The study identified five major issues: 1) diagnosis and basic therapy services that the parents received to their ASD Children, (2) impacts of raising an ASD Child on the Family, (3) the influencing factors that contributed to the parents’ stressful situation, (4) parents’ inability to cope with the stressors, and (5) unavailability of family support systems. Key words: ASD, disability, family, children, parent/caregiver, impacts, effects, lived-experience, crisis, stressors, support system, participants, researcher, qualitative research, data, design, methods, themes, findings