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The shortage of medical workers in Sub-Saharan Africa and substitution policy

open access: yes, 2008
Bourgain A, Pieretti P, Zou B. The shortage of medical workers in Sub-Saharan Africa and substitution policy. Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics. Vol 407.
Zou, Benteng   +2 more
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Poverty and malnutrition in urban sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Poverty contributes to many problems globally and its resultant effects are many,, varied and have their greatest impact in poor countries. One of the major effects of poverty is malnutrition, which has a hold on all facets of life due to the vicious ...
Muriuki, Mercy S. N.
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Fungal Antimicrobial Resistance: Mechanisms, Drivers, and Global Clinical Burden

open access: yesChemFoodChem, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fungal antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing concern for world health caused by an increase in multidrug‐resistant infections, an increase in environmental reservoirs, and the ineffectiveness of current antifungal treatments. Fungal infections continue to be largely excluded from AMR initiatives while causing over 1.6 million deaths ...
Bikash Baral
wiley   +1 more source

Does Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)‐Based CYP2D6 Sequencing Improve Genotype–Phenotype Concordance in Tamoxifen‐Treated Patients?

open access: yesClinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
CYP2D6 metabolizes about 20% of commonly used drugs, including tamoxifen, a major hormone therapy for breast cancer. Although the relationship between tamoxifen pharmacokinetics and CYP2D6 genotype has been demonstrated, residual variability in drug exposure remains unexplained.
Jeanne Petit   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Africa a Net Creditor? New Estimates of Capital Flight from Severely Indebted Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1970-1996 [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper presents estimates of capital flight from 25 low-income sub-Saharan African countries in the period 1970 to 1996. Capital flight totaled more than $193 billion (in 1996 dollars); with imputed interest earnings, the accumulated stock of flight ...
James Boyce, Léonce Ndikumana
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Conflict Management Strategies Among Cohabiting Undergraduate Students in Ilorin, Nigeria

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conflicts among cohabiting partners are often more complex or intractable because their relationships are not formalized culturally or institutionally. The inability to resolve conflicts among cohabiting partners may threaten their safety and well‐being.
Lanre Abdul‐Rasheed Sulaiman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Do We Know About How Companies Manage Waste? The Effect of Tenure and Diversity of Directors on Disclosures

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyze the effect of board tenure on firms' waste management disclosure and explore whether this effect is amplified by board gender and cultural diversity. The analysis is based on data from 832 large firms worldwide from 2011 to 2020.
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patterns of long term growth in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

open access: yes
Using the most recent purchasing power parity data for 44 sub-Saharan African countries, this paper examines the characteristics of long run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005.
Page, John, Arbache, Jorge Saba
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Harmonizing Social Impact Assessment in the Bioeconomy: A Cross‐Regional Fuzzy‐Delphi Approach

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The bioeconomy transition risks underrepresenting social sustainability, while existing Social Life Cycle Assessment (S‐LCA) applications remain insufficient for comparison and decision support due to heterogeneous and non‐standardized selection of social impact categories. This study proposes a cross‐regional baseline set of impact categories
Julia Lessa Feitosa Virgolino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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