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The Mauritian Election of 2005: An Unprecedented Increase of Women in Parliament [PDF]
, 2013 Before the 2005 election, women’s legislative representation in Mauritius had always been one of the lowest in the African continent, and the lowest in the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
Bunwaree, Sheila, Yoon, Mi Yung
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Rewriting Mauritius: Ananda Devi's postcolonial self-translation [PDF]
, 2017 The Mauritian writer, Ananda Devi, once described the experience of translating her own French-language novel, Pagli, into English as ‘liberating, even exhilarating’, as compared with the more constrained, faithful practice of translating another writer ...
Waters, Julia
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Left ventricular hypertrophy: an ECG-based study of prevalence and risk factors in a multiethnic population. [PDF]
Open Heart, 2023 Taki H +8 more
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The predicate marker li in Mauritian Creole [PDF]
, 2007 There is a morpheme 'li' in Mauritian Creole (MC), which is homophonous with the 3sg pronoun, and which, in the early creole, occurs frequently between the subject and the predicate in affirmative, present tense clauses. I propose that that 'li' may have
Guillemin, Diana
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, 1982 "Possibly all change processes partake of the characteristics of creolization, with the particular historical circumstances making the crucial, but essentially quantitative, difference." (Hoenigswald 1971:479). If Hoenigswald's hypothesis proves to be correct, the implication is that the study of Creole languages has much to offer the theorist of ...
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The Resource Curse - A Natural Experiment [PDF]
This paper compares Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago which have a very similar climate, history, institutional framework, ethnic composition, size, etc., but are different in the natural resources they possess.
Zenthöfer, A.F.
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In the shadow of the healing rainbow: belonging and identity in the regulation of traditional medicine in Mauritius. [PDF]
Griffith Law Rev, 2023 Urquiza-Haas N, Cloatre E.
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Information Asymmetry in Mauritius Slave Auctions [PDF]
Evidence on adverse selection in slave markets remains inconclusive. A necessary prerequisite is that buyers and sellers have different information. We study informational asymmetry on the slave markets through notarial acts on public slave auctions in ...
Désiré VENCATACHELLUM +2 more
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How are polar interrogatives in Mauritian Creole formed?
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of AmericaMauritian Creole is known to form polar questions in two ways: by using the utterance-initial particle eski, derived from French est-ce que 'is it the case that', or by applying a rising intonation to the declarative sentence. This paper asks the question whether both question forms are syntactically interrogative sentences or instead have different ...
Angelika Kiss +2 more
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Adverse Selection in the Market for Slaves in Mauritius, 1825-1835 [PDF]
Evidence on adverse selection in slave markets remains inconclusive. We study this question through notarial acts on public slave auctions in Mauritius between 1825 and 1835, involving 4,286 slaves. In addition to slave characteristics, the acts document
Désiré Vencatachellum +2 more
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