Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa [PDF]
We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnicity-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa.
Elias Papaioannou, Stelios Michalopoulos
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Do remittances affect poverty and inequality ? Evidence from Mali. [PDF]
Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones in the absence of migration and remittances.
Gubert, Flore +2 more
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Immigració i adquisició de segones llengües: una aproximació als errors en la morfologia verbal [PDF]
, 2003 This article presents a descriptive study about the role of transfer in the second language acquisition of Catalan by immigrant learners. The analysis focuses on errors of verbal morphology produced by six learners of Catalan as a second language whose ...
Gràcia, Lluïsa
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Factors associated with coverage of praziquantel for schistosomiasis control in the community-direct intervention (CDI) approach in Mali (West Africa) [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Despite the progress made in the control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD), schistosome and soil-transmitted helminth infections are far from being effectively managed in many parts of the world.
Abdoulaye Dabo +4 more
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Family Prestige as Old-Age Security: Evidence from Rural Senegal [PDF]
This paper aims at studying the self-enforcing family contract between a migrant son and his ageing father who remained in the village and expects to receive support.
Jean-Luc Demonsant
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Irregular migration in senegal faith, dreams and human smuggling through the desert and sea [PDF]
, 2020 The paper provides a bottom up view on human smuggling facilitation and the rationale behind extremely high-risk and complex irregular migration journeys from the Kolda region of Senegal across the Sahara and through the Atlantic sea.
Deshingkar, Priya, Gueye, Doudou
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Evaluation of Virtual Keyboards for West-African Languages [PDF]
, 2008 Traitement Automatique de la langue naturelle ; clavier virtuel ; langue peu dotée ; langue en danger ; langue d'Afrique de l'Ouest.International audienceWest African languages are written with alphabets that comprize non classical Latin characters.
Enguehard, Chantal, Naroua, Harouna
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African Immigration Research [PDF]
, 2010 Outlines the findings, activities, and impact of an oral history research project about African immigrants' experiences in the Bronx and their social, cultural, economic, political, and intellectual institutions and contributions.
Jane Kani Edward
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De treballadors a soldats: treball forçat i reclutament a la Guinea Espanyola i a la Nigèria oriental, 1930-1970 [PDF]
, 2017 Este artículo conecta dos formas de coacción que raras veces son analizadas de forma conjunto en los estudios sociales y de la guerra. Se trata de la experiencia de la mano de obra forzosa emigrante y la experiencia de ser soldado. Los nigerianos orienta
Fury Daly, Samuel
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, 2019 The written register used in various Soninke manuscripts differs in many ways from the modern Soninke spoken varieties. This presentation is a preliminary comparative overview of phonological, morphological and syntactic features identified in the written Soninke and in the Soninke dialects. The comparison will be based on the data from ten manuscripts,
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