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Financial Inclusion Access and Female Labour Participation in Sub‐Saharan Africa: The Moderating Role of Institutional Quality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between financial inclusion, institutional quality, and female labor force participation in sub‐Saharan Africa over the period 1990–2023. Using panel data for 43 countries and employing OLS, FGLS, and dynamic GMM estimators, the analysis examines whether access to financial institutions and financial markets ...
Joshua Chukwuma Onwe, Busra Agan Celik, Sodiq Olaide Bisiriyu, Odunayo Magret Olarewaju   +3 more
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Effects of Development Finance on Energy Transitions and Green Growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While global agendas promote energy transition and green growth, Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) struggles with low energy access, highlighting a development paradox between climate goals and energy poverty. By aligning aid and development finance with SDGs 7 and 13, we analyze whether development finance is at a crossroads in supporting ...
Clement Oteng, Pius Gamette, Edward Kweku Nunoo, Frederick Takyi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contribution of the Baobab Value Chain to Equitable Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Non‐timber forest products (NTFPs) are central to income diversification and livelihood resilience in Sub‐Saharan Africa. However, the welfare implications of baobab commercialisation remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by analysing the contribution of the baobab value chain to household income, poverty reduction, and income ...
Frederick Frimpong, Emmanuel Donkor, Victor Owusu, Dietrich Darr   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ASSESSMENT OF THE QUALITIES OF NEW AROMATIC RICE ACCESSIONS STORED AT FARMERS LEVEL IN BENIN EVALUATION DES QUALITES DES NOUVELLES ACCESSIONS DE RIZ AROMATIQUE STOCKEES EN MILIEU PAYSAN AU BENIN

Scientific Study & Research: Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Food Industry
The objective of this study was to evaluate the physio-chemical and sensorial qualities of five new parfum rice accessions stored under the farmer’s conditions.
PAUL A. F. HOUSSOU, VALÈRE DANSOU , ABEL B. HOTEGNI , KOWIOU ABOUDOU , HUGUE ZANNOU , ROSANOFF Y. S. KOUKÈ   +5 more
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Do Sovereign‐Environmental, Social and Governance (S‐ESG) Commitments Promote Financial Inclusion?

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the need to respect humanity, the environment, and society, and the progressive development of social responsibility, environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments and the need for ethical and sustainable finance, this paper aims to examine the impact of sovereign ESG on financial inclusion (FI).
Inès Gharbi, Simplice A. Asongu, Aïda Kammoun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Insuffisance pondérale et facteurs associés chez les sujets infectés par VIH sous antirétroviraux suivis à Cotonou (Bénin) en 2014

Revue Malienne d’Infectiologie et de Microbiologie, 2016
Objectif : l’objectif de cette étude est de déterminer la prévalence et les facteurs associés à l’insuffisance pondérale chez les personnes vivant avec le VIH sous antirétroviral suivies à Cotonou.
Alassani A, Dovonu AC, Attinsounon AC, Gninkoun J, Gomina M, Wanvoegbe A, et.al.   +6 more
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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PREVALENCE DES CARDIOPATHIES RHUMATISMALES CHEZ LES JEUNES COLLEGIENS A PARAKOU EN 2012 (BENIN).

Revue Malienne d’Infectiologie et de Microbiologie, 2015
RESUME : L’objectif était de déterminer la prévalence des cardiopathies rhumatismales dans le Collège d’Enseignement Général (CEG) Okédama de Parakou. Une étude transversale et descriptive a été menée sur deux mois (07 Mai au 05 Juillet 2012).
HL Codjo, CA Attisounon, CA Dovonou, E Foundohou, SHM Dohou, DM Houénassi   +5 more
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source