Rena, Ravinder (2006) A Handbook on the Eritrean Economy: Problems and Prospects for Development,
Tanzania: New Africa Press.

ISBN-10: 0-9802534-6-2
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Rena, Ravinder 2006 Financial Institutions in Eritrea , Tanzania : New Africa Press.

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HIV/AIDS Pandemic - Aged Over Two Decades
Posted: 2006-07-13 00:00:00 DR. RAVINDER RENA

Introduction

Millions of people all around the world today are suffering from a terrible pandemic HIV/AIDS, which was found in America in 1986. More than 30 million people in Africa are infected with HIV/AIDS. It is reported that 25 million people died for over two decades. As every country in the world are victims of this disease. Sub-Saharan Africa is by far the worst affected region. But it is devastating in some African countries especially in four southern African countries–Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe–HIV/AIDS prevalence has exceeding 40 per cent And people infected with this fatal disease and more than 5.6 million in South Africa. When we compare with the other African countries the magnitude of the disease in Eritrea is small with about 2.7 per cent. Full Story


The Working Class in Africa – Some observations
Posted: 2006-06-08 00:00:00 DR. RAVINDER RENA, M.A., B.Ed., LL.B., M. Phil., Ph.D., Mai- Nefhi, Eritrea

The working class has received continuous attention from social and political commentators and delegates all over the world. It is to be noted that even in the middle of the 19th century, there was a new expression which brought into focus a new reality created by industrial capitalism, first in England and later other Western countries, and then different parts of the world including Africa. Until that time, it was common to speak about labourers but not about a working class. Before the advent of industrial capitalism, Western society was represented in terms of its division into estates just as African society was represented in terms of its division than of classes.
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Welcome 24 May
Posted: 2006-05-25 00:00:00 By- M. Ashaq Raza

After war of thirty years
Losing thousands of dears
Saw when we first freedom ray
That was 1991’s colorful 24 May
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Team Work - an Important Tool for Development
Posted: 2006-05-12 00:00:00 Dr. RAVINDER RENA

The Fundamental shift from “hard work” to “smart work” is one of the topics that is being discussed in “soft skills” training sessions. Incidentally, this idea has crept and found its place in families and educational institutions as well. Similarly, personality development trainers also insist on many `incredibly quicker and simpler' ways of solving problems. Positive thinking, it seems, is an all-clear formula that possesses curative power beyond comprehension. Many such life saving drugs in the form of ideas and concepts are now available in packages that are offered during a quick and short-term course that promises to develop and unfold one's personality. Full Story


African Partnership - A Corner Stone for Global Economic Development
Posted: 2006-04-26 00:00:00 Dr. RAVINDER RENA [Eritrea Institute of Technology]

The G8 summit, which met in Gleneagles in Scotland from 6-8 July 2005, has put Africa at the top of its agenda. In March 2005, the Commission for Africa that was set up by Tony Blair also called for another $25 billion for the next three to five years. Besides, in January 2005 it unveiled the results of its Millennium Project, which called for a doubling of aid worldwide. The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) has been set up in the year 2000 with a dead line to achieve them by 2010. The MDGs include: halving poverty and hunger, arresting disease and environmental degradation, helping newborn babies survive infancy and educating them in childhood etc. Full Story


Mobile phone transforming African life!!!
Posted: 2006-04-17 00:00:00 Ghirmai Tesfai Kefela (Ph.D.)

A former taxi driver, Mr. Mbaye has run his kiosk for the past year and, despite some concerns, finds business is better than in his previous career (Jon Cronin, BBC, 2005). The reason for this is simple. Tanzania's three main mobile operators, Vodacom, Celtel and Mobitel, offer something the country's older fixed-line company has long failed to supply, a reliable telecoms service. Full Story


The Work That Men Do - • A path to progress, harmony and self-knowledge
Posted: 2006-04-16 00:00:00 Amanuel Sahle

“Who created work?” once asked a friend of mine known for his aversion to anything that vaguely resembled physical or mental work such as lifting one’s fingers to move a chair, having to walk from one bar to the next on foot on a boozing spree, having to guess the day of the month to pay his debts or even trying to figure out whether donkeys belong to the herbivorous or carnivorous group of animals. Some people are really the quintessence of sluggishness. Full Story


Student-Centered Education is the Best Way of Learning
Posted: 2006-04-12 00:00:00 BY: DR. RAVINDER RENA

All educators have to be aware that unless there is close rapport and interaction between the teacher and the pupil, the learning process is bound to be a total failure. The Government of Eritrea has introduced the student-centered learning system as part of its educational reforms in the year 2002. Yet it is observed that there has been a problem in teaching-learning process in Eritrea. On the slightest pretext, the students stay away from classes causing dislocation to their education and loss to the taxpayer. It is to be noted that a student spends roughly a third of his active waking hours at the school /college/university and, the lecture hall or the laboratory is virtually his/her second home. It is the teacher's primary task to open the pupil's mind to new vistas of knowledge. The teacher has not only to motivate the student by the nature of the subject content but also by proper planning, presentation and direction. He must have the courage to project new ideals, adopt novel techniques and be ready to own up his mistakes. Full Story


Famines in Africa – A Case Study on Niger
Posted: 2006-04-09 00:00:00 Dr. RAVINDER RENA

The spate of hunger-related deaths reported across different countries in the Horn of Africa this can no longer be dismissed as an deviation or a passing seasonal setback. In the past six years, per capita food-grain absorption in Africa has fallen significantly. As some of the economists have pointed out, such levels were last seen during the early years of World War II and the Somalia and Ethiopia Famine. It is also observed that, during the food crises in the horn particularly: the 1970s, 1980s and in 2000 in the region. The per capita availability figure conceals the far worse situation of millions of rural Africans in the region. Growing hunger among Africa’s poorer citizens is closely linked with the agrarian crisis sweeping the region, a crisis that is clearly structural and cannot be resolved by band-aid economic measures. Full Story


From shadows to light
Posted: 2006-04-08 00:00:00 Dr. M. Ashaq Raza

From nowhere to somewhere
Without guidance and care
With some hope and despair
With some willpower and dare Full Story


Happiness
Posted: 2006-04-06 00:00:00 Dr. M. Ashaq Raza

Somewhere within us
Lives power franchise
Named happiness
Whom can't we recognize Full Story


Money will not cure Africa's!
Posted: 2006-04-06 00:00:00 Naz Yemane

Twenty-one years ago many international musical celebrities performed in Live Aid, an international concert to raise funds to end starvation in Ethiopia. International artists also released a number of musical singles including, "We Are The World" out of the United States. Artists tried to save millions of lives in Ethiopia, people that were betrayed and exposed to death and starvation by their own greedy leaders. Full Story


Value-based Education in Eritrea for Humanism, and Character Building
Posted: 2006-04-06 00:00:00 DR. RAVINDER RENA [Eritrea Institute of Technology]

These days, the values of life are brushed aside as matters of the past. Eritrea, historically which was looked upon as a “land of Punt” with ancient traditions and culture, has given way to the global trend of materialism. An individual is measured in terms of his wealth and not on the basis of his goodness and/or knowledge. Full Story


Mobile Phones Revitalize Economic Growth In Africa
Posted: 2006-04-03 00:00:00 Ghirmai T Kefela - Ph.D. (Int. Bus.)

The investment in mobile phone and its infrastructure and derived services provide significant benefits to the economy. It is important for developing countries to have such technology and benefit from it in order to further their economic growth. Full Story