Import Demand for Dairy Products in Cote d'Ivoire [PDF]
We estimate an LA/AIDS model of demand for imported dairy products for Cote d'Ivoire. We employ a unique set of Ivorian customs data, spanning seven dairy products observed monthly from January 1996 to December 2005. Demand for milk powder is found to be
Balagtas, Joseph Valdes +2 more
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Colonialism and Mandates [PDF]
, 2012 Daily life in contemporary African countries must be understood as determined by their status as members of an interlocking network of postcolonies, striving to imagine themselves as related through Pan-Africanism but struggling first to realize ...
Hawley, John C.
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Climate shocks, democratization and (a culture of) cooperation
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract While the direct economic effects of adverse climate shocks are well known, their indirect institutional impact is still poorly understood. To clarify this, we test the idea that adverse climate shocks push time‐inconsistent elites to enact inclusive political institutions, and non‐elites to embrace strong norms of cooperation.
Giacomo Benati, Carmine Guerriero
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Aging and poverty in Africa and the role of social pensions [PDF]
In many low income African countries, three factors are placing an undue burden on the elderly. First, the burden on the elderly has enormously increased with the increase in mortality of prime age adults due to HIV AIDS pandemic and regional conflicts ...
Kakwani, Nanak, Subbarao, Kalanidhi
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Unequal prospects: disparities in the quantity and quality of labour supply in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
, 2004 ASC – Publicaties niet-programma ...
Cramer, Christopher +2 more
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Pro‐Market Economic Reforms and Resource Curse: Do Initial Conditions Matter?
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The quality of economic institutions plays a crucial role in enhancing a country's economic performance, leading international organisations to recommend pro‐market institutional reforms as a strategy to support economic development. This paper investigates how the natural resource curse affects pro‐market reforms, analysing a sample of 90 ...
Isaac Amedanou, Kwamivi Mawuli Gomado
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RE-EXAMINING THE FINANCE-GROWTH NEXUS: STRUCTURAL BREAK, THRESHOLD COINTEGRATION AND CAUSALITY EVIDENCE FROM THE ECOWAS [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to re-examine the cointegrating and causal relationship between financial development and economic growth in the ECOWAS. To this end, we use the Gregory and Hansen (1996a, 1996b) approach to cointegration with structural change ...
Loesse Jacques Esso
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Linkage Between Electoral Cycle and the Discouragement of African Firms in the Credit Market
International Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes the linkage between the electoral cycle and the discouragement of SMEs in the credit market of 14 African countries. It focuses on 12,145 firms over the period 2006–2020. The results obtained from Probit estimates show elections are negatively linked with the discouragement of firms in the credit market.
Cherif Abdramane, Simplice A. Asongu
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Les vulnérabilités féminines au prisme des masculinités en Côte d’Ivoire : retours de terrains socio-anthropologiques [PDF]
Pensées Genre, Penser AutrementCet article s’intéresse à la façon dont les « théories masculines » produisent la domination des femmes dans différents territoires de Côte d’Ivoire. Il repose sur des retours de terrains socio-anthropologiques, notamment de trois recherches effectuées ...
Zié Adama OUATTARA
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Preserving the CFA Zone : macroeconomic coordination after the devaluation [PDF]
On January 12, 1994, the CFA franc - the currency of the thirteen African states of the CFA Franc Zone - was devalued 50 percent. The event had been expected for some time, but the magnitude and one-shot nature of the devaluation posed problems for ...
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