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Female Education and Child Marriage
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine why the education of young girls has historically lagged behind that of young boys across different countries. Using data from 105 countries during 1990–2020, we discover some evidence that is consistent with the idea that parents in many traditional societies reduce investments in the primary schooling of their daughters after they
Hasan A. Faruq
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Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The heavy reliance of many African nations on a few export products (typically primary products) for export earnings often creates significant development challenges. China's participation in Africa has been steadily growing, presenting both opportunities and risks for the continent's economic progress. This study aims to analyse the impact of
Aliyu Buhari Isah
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Assessment of sardinella and othter small pelagics in West Africa: Progress Report 2002 [PDF]
The co-operation between the Dutch fisheries research institute RIVO and the Mauritanian fisheries research institute IMROP (Institut Mauritanien des Recherches Océanographiques et de Pêche) in the field of pelagic stock assessment was continued in 2002.
Corten, A.A.H.M.
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Aid to Fight AIDS: An Empirical Analysis of HIV‐Specific Development Aid Effectiveness
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using an excludable instrument for HIV‐specific aid, we investigate its effectiveness on HIV outcomes viz., prevalence and death rates. We theorize that HIV‐specific aid fills the funding gap that prevents governments from committing adequate resources to effectively address the epidemic.
Derek Nolan +1 more
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Commodity price fluctuations and their impact on monetary and fiscal policies in Western and Central Africa [PDF]
Commodity prices play an important role in economic developments in most of the 24 Western and Central African (WCA) countries covered in this paper. It is confirmed that in the light of rising commodity prices between 1999 and 2005, net oil exporters ...
Adalbert Winkler +2 more
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Internet, Inequality, and Regime Stability
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the link between income inequality and political instability, focusing on the moderating role of Internet penetration. Using data from over 120 countries (1996–2020), we find a conditional relationship: in low‐Internet countries, higher inequality associates with lower instability, likely due to limited political awareness ...
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan +1 more
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Expenditure incidence in Africa: microeconomic evidence [PDF]
In this paper, we examine the progressivity of social sector expenditures in eight sub-Saharan African countries. We employ dominance tests, complemented by extended Gini/concentration coefficients, to determine whether health and education expenditures ...
David E. Sahn, Stephen D. Younger
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Zoologica Scripta, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Bar‐tailed Lark Ammomanes cinctura is a polytypic bird species with a wide distribution. One of its three subspecies, A. c. arenicolor, has previously been found to show deep mitochondrial divergence between its geographically most distant populations, from Morocco and Saudi Arabia, respectively.
Zongzhuang Liu +9 more
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Notes and comments on the ex-post evaluation of the fisheries agreement EU-Morocco [PDF]
This report presents a summary of the content of the ex-post evaluation of the fishing agreement between the EU and ...
Brunel, T.P.A.
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Replenishment in Stochastic Assembly Systems
MathematicsThis study presents a reinforcement learning–based approach to optimize replenishment policies in the presence of uncertainty, with the objective of minimizing total costs, including inventory holding, shortage, and ordering costs. The focus is on single-
Lativa Sid Ahmed Abdellahi +4 more
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