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The UN Committee Against Torture: Human Rights Monitoring and the Legal Recognition of Cruelty [PDF]
, 2009 Focusing on the Committee Against Torture, this article argues that human rights monitoring can hide as much as it reveals. In particular, monitoring Should he understood as a "second order" process that displaces the discussion of the Causes and ...
Kelly, Tobias
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation on income inequality across 24 Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries from 2000 to 2020. Using IV‐Tobit and 2SLS models, we consistently find that greater trade openness significantly exacerbates inequality in the region. Critically, we document an inverted U‐shaped relationship between trade
Guivis Zeufack Nkemgha +2 more
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Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and their Impacton Education in Africa [PDF]
Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, manycountries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby teachers are no longer engaged on civil servant positions ...
Jean Bourdon +2 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama +3 more
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La calcinose scrotale : une observation au Togo et revue de la littérature
African Journal of Urology, 2017 Introduction: La calcinose scrotale est une pathologie idiopathique rare. Nous rapportons le cas d’un jeune patient traité par exérèse chirurgicale.
T.M. Kpatcha +10 more
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A Compositional Semantics for Stochastic Reo Connectors [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we present a compositional semantics for the channel-based coordination language Reo which enables the analysis of quality of service (QoS) properties of service compositions. For this purpose, we annotate Reo channels with stochastic delay
Alexandra Silva +5 more
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Does Digital Banking Promote Remittance Receipts? Evidence From Developing Countries
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the realm of technological advancement, like many sectors, the financial sector swiftly embraced digital transformation to help facilitate financial transactions, especially remittance receipts. The digitalisation of the banking sector has made transfers and access to funds quite easier, faster, and more economical by reducing transaction ...
Syed Ali Abbas +2 more
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Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public HealthIntroduction : Les envenimations par morsure de serpent (EMS) sont des maladies potentiellement mortelles causées par les toxines contenues dans l’inoculât des serpents.
Abalo Mazamesso Palanga +7 more
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Campagne Nizery Togo 7 (19 au 21-O7-84): resultats des chalutages [PDF]
, 1984 This publication gives the results of the bottom trawlings made during the cruise TOGO 7 by the oceanographic research vessel Andre Nizery on the continental shelf of Togo during the estimation program of halieutic ...
Lhomme, F.
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