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Determinants of diffusion and adoption of improved technology for rice parboiling in Benin

Dandedjrohoun, Lidia; Diagne, Aliou; Biaou, Gauthier; … - HAL - 2012

The widespread use of traditional rice-parboiling methods in Benin leads to poor quality of final rice. To address this … problem, the national agricultural research institute of Benin and Africa Rice Center have developed improved rice parboiling … central Benin to estimate the actual and potential adoption rates of this technology and the determinants of its diffusion and …

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Decentralization in Africa and the nature of local governments' competition: evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie; Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire; Foucault, … - HAL - 2011

a spatial lag model, our analysis provides evidence for the presence of strategic interactions in Benin, contingent on …

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Institutional Evolution, static and dynamic approaches in assessing performance related to development goals

Fok, Michel; Tazi, Sophia - HAL - 2003

1. The Resocot Projet is a research project which brought together teams of researchers from the North and Africa, not all of which were familiar with the theoretical approach used at the outset. This project aims at developing a methodology and materials to help assess the performance of the...

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Life and Death of Roscas : If Power Corrupts, Does Powerlessness Make One Blameless ?

Dagnelie, Olivier - HAL - 2007

roscas from Cotonou, Benin. We notice that the groups run by a president alone are more likely to fall apart. We also present …

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Consumer preferences, aquaculture technology and the sustainability of fisheries

Regnier, Esther; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2013

dependence on reduction fisheries for the feeding of the farmed species and consumet preferences. The model includes the demand …

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Robust viable management of a harvested ecosystem model

Regnier, Esther; Lara, Michel De - HAL - 2013

The Word Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002) encouraged the application of the ecosystem approach by 2010. In this perspective, we propose a theoretical management framework that deals jointly with i) ecosystem dynamics, ii) conflicting issues of production and preservation...

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A Curse or a Blessing? Natural Resources in a Multiple Growth Regimes Analysis

Konte, Maty - HAL - 2012

The literature on the impact of an abundance of natural resources on economic performance remains inconclusive. In this paper we consider the possibility that countries may follow different growth regimes, and test the hypothesis that whether natural resources are a curse or a blessing depends...

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On Political Regime Changes in Arab Countries

Boucekkine, Raouf; Prieur, Fabien; Puzon, Klarizze - HAL - 2014

We develop a dynamic game to provide with a theory of Arab spring-type events. We consider two interacting groups, the elite vs the citizens, two political regimes, dictatorship vs a freer regime, the possibility to switch from the first to the second regime as a consequence of a revolution, and...

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The Dynamics of Lobbying under Uncertainty: On Political Liberalization in Arab Countries

Boucekkine, Raouf; Prieur, Fabien; Puzon, Klarizze - HAL - 2013

We consider a framework à la Wirl (1994) where political liberalization is the outcome of a lobbying differential game between a conservative elite and a reformist group, the former player pushing against political liberalization in opposition to the latter. In contrast to the benchmark model,...

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Living in the garden of Eden: Mineral resources foster individualism

Couttenier, Mathieu; Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2010

Using mineral resources discoveries in the United States since 1800, we argue that mineral mining fosters individualism. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i) individuals living in states with mineral...

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