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(english) This paper tests if agricultural and climatic shocks have persistent impacts on consumption growth in 7 rural areas from Madagascar. The empirical framework is inspired by a standard Solow growth model. Shocks are introduced directly in the reduced form model as controls for factor...
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(english) Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in exercising an economic activity and in assuming their domestic activities. Husbands’ insufficient or inexistent income has increased women’s role in household survival...
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(english) The objective of this study is to take stock of the economic and social achievements of Senegal during the … analysis of the macroeconomic foundations of growth in Senegal and then examine the evolution of labor market and social … économiques et sociales du Sénégal durant la première période de la présidence Wade (2001 à 2006). Plus particulièrement, on s …
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Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim of reducing poverty by half …
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survival chance before two years old of siblings of same gender in Senegal. The analysis is based on nationally representative … exist in Senegal that helps mothers, with an out-of-wedlock birth, to compensate and sometime over-compensate for lack of … cours des deux premières années de vie d'enfants de même sexe et issus d'une même fratrie au Sénégal. L'analyse est réalisée …
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. _________________________________ (français) Cet article utilise les données des Enquêtes Démographiques et de Santé collectées en 2005 et en 2010 au Sénégal pour … répandue au Sénégal où 34,4% des femmes mariées sont concernées. Il existe trois canaux via lesquels le mariage précoce réduit …
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(english) The aim of this work is to propose a critical analysis of the recent research works on the Senegalese associations in Italy. First, the main socio-economic characteristics of the Senegalese migration are described. Second, the literature review on Senegalese associations in Italy focus...
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(english) This article explores the importance of fertilizer profitability in explaining the relative, apparent low use of chemical fertilizers by farmers in Burkina Faso. Using large-scale plot data, we estimate maize yield response to nitrogen to be 19 kg/ha on average and to vary with soil...
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(English) This article briefly describes the Soninke labor migration, and interprets it as a means of diversifying risk in a context of missing insurance and credit markets. Historical and anthropological studies on this ethnic group are briefly surveyed, and suggest that it is not only the...
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(english) This paper investigates the dynamics of the informal sector in Madagascar during a period of fragile growth. Overall, the behavior of informal firms in terms of earnings, employment and capital accumulation points to a degree of heterogeneity which goes beyond a simple dualistic model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364977