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Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping School Accessibility in Africa: High‐Resolution Spatial Analysis Uncovers Inequalities in Education Access

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a cornerstone of sustainable development, yet large disparities in access persist across and within countries—particularly in Africa, where millions remain underserved. Among several factors influencing educational participation, physical accessibility to schools (in terms of travel time) is not comprehensively understood ...
Diana Jaramillo‐Araujo, Jim W. Hall
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Enterprises in Small Backward Economies: The Case of Chad and Gabon [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the impact of trade and fiscal reforms and of the 1994 devaluation of the CFA franc on enterprise development in Chad and Gabon. These reforms provide a natural experiment to assess the impact of trade liberalisation in countries with
Bernard Gauthier   +2 more
core  

The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
wiley   +1 more source

“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical composition and antibacterial activity of Azadirachta indica seed oil from Chad

open access: yesInternational Journal of Secondary Metabolite
This study focuses on extracting oil from the seeds of the Azadirachta indica species A. Juss, known in Chad as mim or neem, utilizing a cold-press extraction method.
Omar Belmehdi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Bloodlines: A Review of Succession Planning and Generational Continuity in African Family Businesses

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 107 peer‐reviewed articles on succession planning in African family businesses, offering a conceptual reframing of succession as an institutionally embedded process rather than a discrete managerial task. Moving beyond proceduralist and Eurocentric paradigms, the review integrates institutional theory,
Augustine Okeke
wiley   +1 more source

The current state of international economic relations between Russia and African countries

open access: yesВестник университета
The article analyzes current state of international economic relations among Russia and African countries and reveals their prospects. To date, these relations can be characterized as actively developing, but still relatively insufficiently intensive ...
M. M. Mahamat
doaj   +1 more source

Heidegger’s Distinction between Scientific and Philosophical Judgments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Some commentators, such as Jürgen Habermas, think Martin Heidegger is guilty of a performative contradiction, because he uses judgments to situate judgments in a non-judicative context.
Engelland, Chad
core   +1 more source

Economic Policy Uncertainty and Structural Transformation in Africa: The Conditional Role of Human Resource Development

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study has investigated two objectives. First, it examines the unconditional impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on Africa's structural transformation. Second, it explores the conditional role of human resource development in the nexus between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and structural transformation.
Ekene ThankGod Emeka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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