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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the factors influencing renewable energy consumption and renewable electricity in Sub‐Sahara Africa (SSA) using the Lewbel 2SLS approach, panel quantile regression and Driscoll and Kraay estimator. It focuses on a panel dataset covering 41 countries from 1998 to 2020.
Emmanuel K. Manu, Simplice A. Asongu
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Rainfall Intra-Seasonal Variability and Vegetation Growth in the Ferlo Basin (Senegal)
Remote Sensing, 2016 During the monsoon season, the spatiotemporal variability of rainfall impacts the growth of vegetation in the Sahel. This study evaluates this effect for the Ferlo basin in central northern Senegal. Relationships between rainfall, soil moisture (SM), and
Soukèye Cissé +5 more
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Local ecosystem feedbacks and critical transitions in the climate [PDF]
, 2009 Global and regional climate models, such as those used in IPCC assessments, are the best tools available for climate predictions. Such models typically account for large-scale land-atmosphere feedbacks.
Bodegom, P.M., van +15 more
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Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
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Ranking, risk-taking and effort: an analysis of the ECB's foreign reserves management [PDF]
The investment of the ECB reserves in US dollars and yen, delegated to a network of portfolio managers in the Eurosystem’s national central banks, involves a periodic assessment of performance against a common benchmark, controlled by the ECB and subject
Sahel, Benjamin, Scalia, Antonio
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‘Security — Development’ Nexus in French Academic Discourse: On France’s Policy in the Sahel
Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политикаAgainst the backdrop of rising anti-French sentiments in the Sahel region, debates have intensified within both Russian and foreign scholars regarding the reasons for the apparent crisis, if not the failure, of the Fifth Republic’s African policy. At the
E. A. Abramova
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton +3 more
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An investigation of surface albedo variations during the recent sahel drought [PDF]
, 1979 Applications Technology Satellite 3 green sensor data were used to measure surface reflectance variations in the Sahara/Sahel during the recent drought period; 1967 to 1974.
Hinton, B., Mosher, F. R., Norton, C. C.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Crises sécuritaires et mariage des enfants au Sahel [PDF]
Pensées Genre, Penser AutrementCette étude examine l’impact des crises sécuritaires sur le mariage précoce des adolescentes dans six pays du Sahel. Elle utilise les données des Enquêtes Démographiques et de Santé.
Justin DANSOU
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