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Between Dispossession and Inclusion: Land Injustice and Project‐Based Citizenship in the Bagré Irrigation Scheme (Burkina Faso)

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
wiley   +1 more source

Does Valuing Free Speech Affect Norms of Tolerance? Evidence From Individual Preferences

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid intensifying global debates over balancing free speech with protections against hate speech, this paper investigates whether individuals who value free speech exhibit greater racial tolerance. Unlike prior studies focusing on the institutional effects of free speech, this paper examines whether individuals who prioritize free speech hold ...
Claudia Williamson Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

Education and the Shadow Economy: A Panel Cointegration Analysis

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of education on the shadow economy across 132 countries over the period 1991–2020. To this end, panel cointegration and panel error‐correction models are employed. The results of the panel cointegration tests indicate a stable long‐term relationship among the selected variables.
Salvatore Ciucci
wiley   +1 more source

Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment in EMDEs: Nonlinear Effects of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, Capital Stock and Efficiency

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). To this end the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment.
Amat Adarov, Benedict Clements, João Tovar Jalles   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Threshold Regression for Fixed‐T$$ T $$ Panel Data with Interactive Fixed Effects

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops a new toolbox for estimation and inference in panel data threshold regression models with interactive fixed effects and a fixed number of time periods, T$$ T $$. The toolbox is designed to be simple, accurate, and computationally efficient.
Jan Ditzen, Yiannis Karavias, Joakim Westerlund   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amélioration de la croissance et des paramètres agronomiques du maïs (Zea mays L.) par des composts de déchets dans la carrière des calcaires de Sika-Kondji au Sud-Togo

Revue Marocaine des Sciences Agronomiques et Vétérinaires, 2017
Mineral resources exploitation is one of the main causes of soil degradation and pollution. Restoration of mines after exploitation is a priority of mining companies.
O.TOUNDOU, A. AGBOGAN, O. SIMALOU, K. TOZO, K.S.S. DOSSOU, A. BOKOBANA   +5 more
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School Enrollment and Living Arrangements of Children in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract School enrollment has increased in many sub‐Saharan African countries over recent decades, alongside substantial socioeconomic and demographic transitions. However, gains in educational enrollment have not been equal, raising questions about the determinants of access to and variability in school enrollment. The living arrangements of children
Maria Pohl, Ewa Batyra, Albert Esteve
wiley   +1 more source

Conflict, Climate, and Child Health: Evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Many parts of the world are experiencing social and political instability, as well as ongoing climatic changes that are expected to accelerate in the years ahead. These changes can undermine children's health through multiple pathways, and the growing frequency of sociopolitical and environmental stressors increases the likelihood that ...
Brian C. Thiede, Nigel James, Jorden Jackson, Samrin Sauda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The rise of the ecocentric right to a healthy environment before human rights courts in Africa and Latin America

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines jurisprudence from key African and Latin American human rights bodies regarding the right to a healthy environment, with a focus on recent jurisprudence (2023–2025). It identifies a growing trend of an ecocentric interpretation of the right, which acknowledges that the environment and the life forms within it hold ...
Sonja Kahl
wiley   +1 more source

Cost-effectiveness analysis of vitamin A supplementation delivery modalities in the DRC, Togo, and Niger: informing sustainable program design. [PDF]

Health Policy Plan
Corball L, Chappel K, Rowett H, Laillou A, Hasman A, Kawai N.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source