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Yaws active case detection surveys in 15 districts of Cote d'Ivoire. [PDF]
PLoS OneKoffi AP +16 more
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Are natural resources a curse on the distributional consequences of financial development?
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines how natural resource dependence shapes the distributional effects of financial development in developing economies. Using a balanced panel of 90 countries from 1995 to 2022 and dynamic panel and nonlinear threshold methods, we show that financial development reduces wealth inequality when resource dependence is low, but ...
Dong‐Hyeon Kim +2 more
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Prediction of measles elimination in Côte d'Ivoire by 2030. [PDF]
J Public Health AfrEkra KD +3 more
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Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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[Variability in urban malaria transmission across health districts in Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire]. [PDF]
Med Trop Sante IntAssouho KF +4 more
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No Cocoa Without Deforestation? A Field‐Type Analysis of Forest Frontiers in West Africa
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyses the interrelations of production systems, class relations and deforestation in a smallholder forest frontier. Using the concept of field types, we provide a plot‐level analysis of deforestation processes in West Africa, where smallholders convert forest into cocoa farms.
Sarah Lena Graf +5 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the paradox of seeking local solutions in rural development when conflicts result from structural transformations of the agrarian economy driven by national political choices. Since the 1990s, participatory approaches inspired by neo‐institutionalist theories of local governance have encouraged development actors to view ...
Toni‐Giovanni Pegurri
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Education and the Shadow Economy: A Panel Cointegration Analysis
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of education on the shadow economy across 132 countries over the period 1991–2020. To this end, panel cointegration and panel error‐correction models are employed. The results of the panel cointegration tests indicate a stable long‐term relationship among the selected variables.
Salvatore Ciucci
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Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.Large variations exist in the availability of essential nutrition commodities and services across seven sub‐Saharan African countries, highlighting disparities in health system readiness. Despite high procurement rates for key commodities, logistical challenges impede consistent service delivery at the facilities, especially for newer interventions ...
Romance Dissieka +4 more
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