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Growth, distribution and poverty in Madagascar [PDF]

This paper presents an applied microsimulation model built on household data with explicit treatment of heterogeneity of skills, labor preferences and opportunities, and consumption preferences at the individual and/or household level, while allowing for
Robilliard, Anne-Sophie, Cogneau, Denis
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Advancing a science of sustaining health in Madagascar

Annals of Global Health, 2016
M.H. Bonds, D. Gikic, L.F. Cordier, A. Garchitorena, L. Hall, M.G. McCarty, R. Ramananjato, V. Rafaralahy, H. Andriambolamanana, L. Rakotonirina, T. Raveloson, A. Cripps, T. Loyd, T.R. Gillespie, P.E. Farmer, M. Murray, B. Andriamihaja, A.C. Miller, P. Wright, R. Herrnstein, J. Herrnstein, M.L. Rich   +21 more
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Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby ...
Lena Ajdacic, François Schoenberger, Johanna Behr, Fabio Cescon, Lion Hubrich, Emma Ischinsky, Muneeb Salman, Juliana Mazzucotelli, Laura Mrčela, Alonso Pi Cholula, Céline Roy, Sophie Serrano, Helle Dyrendahl Staven, Tina Thakur   +13 more
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Commune Shocks, Household Assets, and Economic Well-Being in Madagascar

Rural households in developing countries are buffeted by environmental, social, health and economic shocks. This paper provides an empirical vignette of the frequency and spatial distribution of such shocks in Madagascar.
Mills, Bradford F., del Ninno, Carlo, Rajemsison, Harivelo   +2 more
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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1

Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
wiley   +1 more source

Unheard voices: the overlooked mental health toll of climate change in vulnerable communities. [PDF]

BMJ Ment Health
Zeljic K, Rasolomalala N, Michalek JE, Solomon S, Rasamison H, Ramaroson S, Hadfield K, Mareschal I.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

LABOR, LIQUIDITY, LEARNING, CONFORMITY AND SMALLHOLDER TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: THE CASE OF SRI IN MADAGASCAR

Although rice accounts for approximately forty-four percent of land under cultivation and forty-six percent of caloric intake in Madagascar, most farmers cannot produce enough rice to feed their families.
Moser, Christine M., Barrett, Christopher B.   +1 more
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Effects of Green Finance on Economic Growth and Renewable Energy in Developing Countries: A Panel Cointegration Analysis

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This empirical study examines the impact of green finance on economic growth and renewable energy in a group of 76 developing nations in 2010–2019. Results from a cointegration analysis, vector error correction model, and Granger causality test confirm a cointegrating relationship between green finance, renewable energy, economic growth, and ...
Xuan‐Hoa Nghiem, Walid Bakry, Girijasankar Mallik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial variation and distribution of anaemia among children aged 6-59 months in Madagascar: a population-based cross-sectional study. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Lakew G, Gemmechu MM, Tiruneh TM, Atalay YA, Yirsaw AN, Bogale EK, Gebeyehu NA, Tekoye TS, Getahun GK, Seid K, Goshu AT, Lorato SS, Desalegn M, Gelaw KA, Ashebir YG, Getahun OK.   +15 more
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