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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

Managing resources in erratic environments: an analysis of pastoralist systems in Ethiopia, Niger, and Burkina Faso [PDF]

This study analyzes the links between risk and the kinds of property rights that have evolved to provide the mobility necessary to raise livestock in drought-prone countries in this case Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Niger.
Drabo, Boureima, Dutilly-Diane, Celine, Kamara, Abdul, McCarthy, Nancy, Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul   +4 more
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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

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

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

Environmental isolation and characterization of Escherichia coli phages from Burkina Faso. [PDF]

BMC Microbiol
Ouédraogo N, Zerbo M, Traoré AK, Addablah A, Soro O, Kakou-Ngazoa S, Barro N.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

TEAM‐UP: Mixed‐Methods Data for Understanding Traditional and Modern Contraceptive Use Dynamics in Four Sub‐Saharan African Countries

Studies in Family Planning, EarlyView.
Abstract This Data Article describes a novel dataset from the “Re‐Examining Traditional Method Use” (TEAM‐UP) project, which systematically collected data on the measurement of and motivations for use of non‐modern (traditional and folkloric) contraceptive methods and/or modern methods, in four sub‐Saharan African countries: the Democratic Republic of ...
Nurudeen Alhassan, Jamaica Corker, Nyovani Janet Madise, Ernestina Coast, Naa Dodua Dodoo, Themba Mzembe, Jacques B.O Emina, Elizabeth Omoluabi, F. Nii‐Amoo Dodoo, Saseendran Pallikadavath, Maame B. Peterson, John A. Mushomi, Funmilola M. OlaOlorun, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu   +13 more
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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

Methodological Innovations for Evidencing and Estimating Modern and Traditional Contraceptive Prevalence and Use Dynamics in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Studies in Family Planning, EarlyView.
Abstract Contraceptive prevalence estimates are indicators of the performance of family planning programs. Yet, available evidence suggests that national surveys may be underestimating the prevalence of traditional methods. The apparent underestimation of traditional methods stems from current approaches for collecting, analyzing, and reporting ...
Nurudeen Alhassan, Nyovani Janet Madise, Jamaica Corker, Naa Dodua Dodoo, Ernestina Coast, F. Nii‐Amoo Dodoo, Jacques B. O. Emina, Saseendran Pallikadavath, Elizabeth Omoluabi, Maame B. Peterson, John A. Mushomi, Themba Mzembe, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Respiratory Viral Co-Infections in SARS-CoV-2 Positive Patients in Burkina Faso: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
Kaboré BWO, Gouba N, Ilboudo AK, Cissé A, Lingani M, Sawadogo C, Ouédraogo EW, Ouoba JB, Savadogo M, Tarnagda Z.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source