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Job satisfaction: a measurement of employment quality compared with aspirations in eight African capitals

Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2011

(english) This paper analyzes the level of job satisfaction expressed by individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa. The approach is original in three respects. no in-depth economic study has ever been produced on the determinants of job satisfaction on this continent; the approach aims at isolating the...

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Women's empowerment across the life cycle and generations: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arestoff, Florence; Djemai, Elodie - DIAL - 2013

(english) Does female empowerment evolve over the life cycle, and has it changed across generations? We use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys covering a sample of about 191,000 adult women to evaluate the age, period and cohort effect regarding individual attitudes to marital...

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Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar

Nordman, Christophe; Vaillant, Julia - DIAL - 2013

of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

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Comment les femmes concilient-elles mariage et travail à Dakar et à Lomé ?

Adjamagbo, Agnès; Antoine, Philippe; Beguy, Donatien; … - DIAL - 2006

(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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Report on Impact Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mendiratta, Vibhuti - DIAL - 2011

(english) Impact evaluation has recently gained significant momentum with good reason, as they help to quantify the social impacts of interventions. With increased importance being attached to evaluation, one spillover effect could be capacity development in African countries with increased...

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Politics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi-democracy. The case of Ghana, 1996-2004

André, Pierre; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - DIAL - 2011

The body of literature on purely democratic countries can sometimes fail to explain the behavior of government in semi-democratic African countries. Empirical and theoretical political economic papers find that public funds target ruling party supporters and swing districts. Our results,...

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Partenaires émergents : quels enjeux pour la soutenabilité de la dette africaine ?

Dahoun, Dieudonné Bleossi; Raffinot, Marc - DIAL - 2012

(english) After debt cancellations, in particular MDRI (Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative) debt ratios in Low Income Country dropped to historic lows. They are now getting into debt again, because of Bretton Woods Institutions (BWI) new loans, of emerging countries’ (namely China) loans, and...

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Decomposing Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Seven West African Cities

Nordman, Christophe; Robilliard, Anne-Sophie; Roubaud, … - DIAL - 2009

(english) In this paper, we analyse the size and determinants of gender and ethnic earnings gaps in seven West African … coming from the 1-2-3 Surveys conducted in the seven cities from 2001 to 2002. Analysing gender and ethnic earnings gaps in …. Our results show that gender earnings gaps are large in all the cities of our sample and that gender differences in the …

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The Sikasso Paradoxe: Cotton and Poverty in Mali

Delarue, Jocelyne; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Naudet, … - DIAL - 2009

(english) In Mali, the situation of cotton growing households has traditionally been considered as more favorable than that of food crop producers. However, official statistics on poverty suggest that the cotton growing region of Sikasso is among the poorest regions of the country and that...

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Etude sur la croissance partagée au Sénégal, 2001-2005

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Robilliard, Anne-Sophie - DIAL - 2010

(english) The objective of this study is to take stock of the economic and social achievements of Senegal during the first part of president Wade’s term of office (2001 to 2006). More specifically, we examine the efficiency of the “Accelerated Growth Strategy” (Stratégie de Croissance...

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