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Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method
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
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Effets de l’accès au microcrédit sur la pauvreté multidimensionnelle au Burkina Faso [PDF]
Burkina Faso is committed to improving the living conditions of its population by 2030 through Axis 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which focuses on the socio-demographic characteristics of Burkina Faso households through education, their ...
Saïdou NIKIEMA +2 more
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Molecular Characterization of β-Lactamase Producing Genes and Integrons in Diarrheagenic Escherichia Coli From Diarrheal Children Less Than Five Years of Age in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. [PDF]
Réné Dembelé +14 more
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Female Education and Child Marriage
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
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Dengue Fever and Its Burden in Burkina Faso: An Overview. [PDF]
Fatimata Belem W +3 more
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Informal Firms' Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Under Uncertain Times: Evidence From Burkina Faso
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
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Natural Resources and Political Patronage in Africa: An Ethnicity Level Analysis
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
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Burkina Faso's infrastructure : a continental perspective [PDF]
Infrastructure contributed 1.3 percentage points to Burkina Faso's annual per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth over the past decade, much of it due to improvements in information and communication technology (ICT).
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia +1 more
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