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Settler colonialism and the administrative state: The transfer of the Government of the Northwest Territories to Yellowknife in 1967

Canadian Public Administration, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 149-165, June 2024.
Abstract In September 1967, the federal government transferred the Government of the Northwest Territories from Ottawa to Yellowknife. While the transfer brought the machinery of government closer to the governed, it also established settler institutions in the homelands of Dene, Métis, and Inuit peoples.
Jerald Sabin
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Jules Janssen : un refusé à l'ombre du soleil

Cahiers François Viète, 2015
Born into a middle-class family where art plays a major role, Jules Janssen was a self-taught scientist and had to work in the bank and then as a tutor while collecting university degrees.
Stéphane Le Gars
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When pro‐poor microcredit institutions favour richer borrowers: A moral hazard story

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 225-242, February / Février 2024.
Abstract We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift,” the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to lend money to wealthier borrowers rather than to the very poor. We focus on the relationship between MFIs and external funding institutions. We assume that both the MFIs and the funding institutions are pro‐poor.
Sara Biancini, David Ettinger, Baptiste Venet   +2 more
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Histoire institutionnelle du dispositif d’aide sénégalais

Calenda, 2014
Tout chercheur qui travaille sur les politiques publiques en Afrique est amené à interroger l’omniprésence du dispositif d’aide ; or celle-ci est mal documentée. Le problème d’archivage local lié à un déficit d’organisation, le « turn-over » ou la disparition des mémoires vivantes, mais aussi la rétention d’informations monnayables sur le marché de l ...
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Astronomie de terrain entre Académie des sciences et Armée

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
At the end of the 19th century, transits of Venus in front of the Sun provided opportunities to set up several scientific expeditions around the world.
Martina Schiavon
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Développement de l'espèce et conservation des races. Abel Gruvel (1870-1941) et la protection de la nature dans les colonies françaises

Cahiers François Viète, 2013
Abel Gruvel started his career in the world of marine biology stations at the end of the 19th century and zoology applied to agriculture. He then participated in the foundation of Port Etienne and became the fisheries development officer of the Ministry ...
Josquin Debaz
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Joseph Liouville et le Bureau des longitudes : mettre le pied à l’étrier à de jeunes savants et contrôler les dérives hégémoniques

Cahiers François Viète, 2018
While his mathematical work has been the subject of numerous studies, the role played by Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) in French astronomy remains unknown.
Colette Le Lay
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Les éphémérides nautiques et astronomiques de l’observatoire naval de Lisbonne et de l’observatoire astronomique de l’université de Coimbra, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle

Cahiers François Viète, 2016
The establishment of scientific education at the University of Coimbra was one of the most important features of the Pombal reform of the university (1772).
Fernando B. Figueiredo
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Image et mesure : deux cultures aux origines de l’astrophysique française

Cahiers François Viète, 2006
In the commission preparing the 1874 transit of Venus, debates about the choice of photographic techniques are illustrative of the stakes that would come to characterize the beginning of astronomy in France over the following decades.
Stéphane Le Gars
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Du service de l’heure à l’océanographie : unité et diversité des observatoires navals en Europe (et ailleurs) au XIXe siècle. Première étude d’ensemble

Cahiers François Viète, 2016
This study, the first of its kind, aims to draw up a first overview of the installation and evolution of naval observatories dedicated to the time service and the astronomical training of sailors.
Guy Boistel
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