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Abstract Formal credit plays an important role for the development of the agriculture sector in developing countries because many farmers are characterized as liquidity constrained. Access to credit can increase farmers' purchasing power for inputs and agricultural technology, thus raising the overall productivity.
Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
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Political elites in Bamako articulate different understandings of the war in northern Mali, though share the same view on the restoration of Malian sovereignty.
Roland Marchal
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Ecology and power in the periphery of Maasina : the case of the Hayre in the nineteenth century [PDF]
This article explores political tensions between successive nineteenth-century rulers of the inland delta of the Niger in central Mali (the Fulbe Diina of Hamdullahi and the Futanke successors of al-Hajj Umar) and the pastoral interests of the Fulbe ...
Bruijn, M., de, Dijk, H., van
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Henri Duveyrier et Cheikh ‘Othmân, cartographes du Sahara
The book published by Henri Duveyrier in 1864 under the title Tuaregs of the North included a 1/3000000 scale map which was considered for decades as the reference map of the Sahara.
Dominique Casajus
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Power, Law and Blood: Sources of Patriarchy in the Middle East [PDF]
This unpublished article was kindly provided to BU's institutional repository for deposit by the ...
Lindholm, Charles
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An understanding of the variability of snake venom composition is of high relevance for adequate treatment of snakebites. Clinical observations of bite victims are considered as a first step in the study of venom variability.
Tilman Musch
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Goyemide on slavery: the liberating power of the word [PDF]
This article looks at Etienne Goyemide's novel, Le Dernier survivant de la caravane, a mythical foundation story set in the last years of the 19th century which records an episode of the northern slave trade in Banda land, RCA, and throws some light on ...
Ugochukwu, F.
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Roving Bandits? The Geographical Evolution of African Armed Conflicts [PDF]
The fighting in some civil wars primarily takes place in a few stable locations, while the fighting in others moves substantially. We posit that rebel groups that do not primarily fight for a specific ethnic group, that receive outside military ...
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La proliferación estatal: Kosovo, Sudán del Sur y ¿Azawad?
Aunque el ideal de la independencia es frecuentemente asociado con la libertad, no existe certeza de ello. Por el contrario, la ausencia de una serie de reglas claras con respecto a las condiciones para acceder al estatuto de Estado-nación termina ...
Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir
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