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Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the synthetic control method and data from 20 African countries, this study quantifies the peace dividend in Mozambique, a country that experienced over 15 years of civil war. More specifically, we use data from 1977 to 2018 to investigate whether the end of the civil war in Mozambique in 1992 brought significant benefits to the country ...
Tendai Gwatidzo, Aldo Sitoe, Busani Moyo
wiley   +1 more source

Female Education and Child Marriage

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine why the education of young girls has historically lagged behind that of young boys across different countries. Using data from 105 countries during 1990–2020, we discover some evidence that is consistent with the idea that parents in many traditional societies reduce investments in the primary schooling of their daughters after they
Hasan A. Faruq
wiley   +1 more source

Fasciolosis in a traveler returning from Burkina Faso. [PDF]

Food Waterborne Parasitol
Massamba L, Testa J, Marty P, Sevestre J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Informal Firms' Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Under Uncertain Times: Evidence From Burkina Faso

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how uncertainty affects mobile money adoption and use by informal businesses. Despite the prevalence of the informal sector in developing countries and the recognized potential of mobile money for financial inclusion, empirical research on its adoption and usage among unregistered businesses is limited.
Serge Stéphane Ky, Clovis Rugemintwari
wiley   +1 more source

Dengue Fever and Its Burden in Burkina Faso: An Overview. [PDF]

Rev Med Virol
Fatimata Belem W, Sangare I, Gilbert C, Wenceslas Bazié W.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Natural Resources and Political Patronage in Africa: An Ethnicity Level Analysis

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of resource discoveries on ethnicity‐level political patronage in Africa using a large geospatial dataset of 254 ethnic groups in 15 countries over the period 1960–2004. We find that the first (or single first) resource discovery in a virgin ethnic homeland increases the share of cabinet posts of that ethnicity.
Sambit Bhattacharyya, Nemera Mamo
wiley   +1 more source

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Are Climate-Smart Practices Important in Burkina Faso? [PDF]

Plant Environ Interact
Bado B, Thiombiano N, Tito NT.
europepmc   +1 more source

Food Gifting and Household Food Security

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food gifting provides an important means of risk sharing in agrarian economies where farming households have limited access to formal credit and insurance markets. Food gifting is also an important source of food for households that are struggling with food scarcity.
Shaoyan Sun, Henry An, Philippe Marcoul
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Tougan population towards dengue in Burkina Faso in 2024. [PDF]

J Public Health Afr
Dah TTE, Moné AS, Dahourou DL, Cissé K, Savadogo H, Lengane NI, Ouattara ZD, Sawadogo A, Koubi LA, Traore IT, Ouedraogo S, Gare J, Diallo AH, Ouedraogo S, Konate B, Drabo KM, Meda N.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The effect of devaluation on cattle markets integration in Burkina Faso [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to highlight an aspect of devaluation that is generally ignored in the literature, namely, its positive impact on domestic trade.
Catherine ARAUJO BONJEAN, Claudio ARAUJO, Jean-Louis COMBES, Pascale COMBES MOTEL   +3 more
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