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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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Horizontal Inequalities and Violent Conflict. Côte d’Ivoire Country Paper [PDF]
human development, aid, trade ...
Arnim Langer
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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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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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Surveillance de la rougeole en Côte d’Ivoire de 2010 à 2022: Épidémiologie – Facteurs associés – Recommandations. [PDF]
J Public Health AfrEkra KD +3 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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Yaws active case detection surveys in 15 districts of Cote d'Ivoire. [PDF]
PLoS OneKoffi AP +16 more
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The Development Costs of Revolution: Evidence From Violent and Nonviolent Transitions
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using data from the Varieties of Democracy (V‐Dem) project and the NAVCO catalog (1950–2019), we estimate the developmental effects of successful revolutions through difference‐in‐differences models and event studies. Our findings differ from common expectations: neither violent nor nonviolent revolutions consistently deliver expected ...
Shishir Shakya +2 more
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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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Prediction of measles elimination in Côte d'Ivoire by 2030. [PDF]
J Public Health AfrEkra KD +3 more
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