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Burkina Faso - Reallocating Energy Subsidies Toward Social Safety Net Program
, 2020 Over the past decade, Burkina Faso has experienced sustained economic growth driven by domestic factors such as consumption and investment on the demand side and services on the supply side, and export of commodities such as cotton and gold. This growth,
Semlali, Amina +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien +5 more
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Social services, human capital, and technical efficiency of smallholders in Burkina Faso: [PDF]
This study applies regression analysis as well as a non-parametric method to survey data from Burkina Faso to analyze the role of human capital in explaining technical efficiency in smallholder agricultural production.
Wouterse, Fleur
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Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This empirical study examines the impact of green finance on economic growth and renewable energy in a group of 76 developing nations in 2010–2019. Results from a cointegration analysis, vector error correction model, and Granger causality test confirm a cointegrating relationship between green finance, renewable energy, economic growth, and ...
Xuan‐Hoa Nghiem +2 more
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Food price inflation and schooling [PDF]
In the middle of the nineties the rural population in Burkina Faso was seriously hit by rising food prices. Whereas cotton farmers were able to cope with this shock given the simultaneous boom in the cotton sector, food crop farmers had to withdraw ...
Grimm, Michael
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Burkina Faso after Compaoré: Continuity through change? Egmont Commentary, 7 November 2014
, 2014 This commentary discusses the events which led to the downfall of long-term President Blaise Compaoré in Burkina Faso and the military, political and socioeconomic challenges which lie ahead in stabilising the ...
Arnould, Valerie
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Index Insurance and Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Southern Mali
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate extremes increasingly threaten food security in low‐ and middle‐income countries, where vulnerable smallholder farmers often lack access to risk mitigation tools. Although index‐based insurance has been promoted as a promising adaptation measure to climate shocks, evidence on its welfare effects, especially on food security, remains ...
Anna Mader, Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
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Double‐Edged Bandwagon Effects in International Law—Rationalist and Behavioral Explanations
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines bandwagon effects in international law by integrating rationalist and behavioral perspectives. While the diffusion of treaties and norms has often been understood as a progressive process leading to broader participation and compliance, states also imitate negative examples, resulting in treaty withdrawals, non‐compliance,
Anne van Aaken
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Burkina Faso: New life for the Sahel? [PDF]
, 1990 Burkina Faso, known as Upper Volta before the revolution of 1983, is one of the poorest nations in the world. Like other African nations in the arid Sahelian region, it faces formidable environmental problems.
Sharp, Robin
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