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GENDER, LAND ACCESS AND RURAL POVERTY IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to examine the link between land access (property rights) and gender (female and male) poverty in rural areas in Côte d’Ivoire, which economy is mainly based on agriculture products.
AKA, Bédia F
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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
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The Mental Health of the Young in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We report on the wellbeing of the young in twenty‐eight countries located in Eastern Europe and Central Asia including fifteen post‐Soviet countries. We find no evidence of the decline in the mental health of the young relative to older people, which characterizes Western Europe and English‐speaking advanced economies. The mental health of the
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
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Studies in Family Planning, EarlyView.Abstract Obtaining reliable estimates of the prevalence of induced abortion remains a significant challenge in abortion research. Recently, one indirect, survey‐based technique for measuring abortion outcomes, the confidante method, has gained particular attention.
Marija Pejchinovska, Monica Alexander
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Institutional Evolution, static and dynamic approaches in assessing performance related to development goals [PDF]
1. The Resocot Projet is a research project which brought together teams of researchers from the North and Africa, not all of which were familiar with the theoretical approach used at the outset.
Michel Fok, Sophia Tazi
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A climate‐sensitive tropical urbanism under extreme heat†
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.Tropical urban dwellers face twin climate challenges that impinge on their quality of life: climate overheating and the urban heat island (UHI). The latter superimposed on the former to lead to high levels of thermal discomfort, carbon and energy consequences.
Rohinton Emmanuel
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Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers [PDF]
Liberalization of tropical agricultural markets has brought globalization, in the sense that all producers now face world rather than domestic prices.
Christopher L. Gilbert, Panos Varangis
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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Specific features of hypercalcaemia in patients of Cocody University Hospital - Côte d’Ivoire. [PDF]
Tunis MedCoulibaly AK +9 more
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