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Endemic diseases and agricultural productivity: Challenges and policy response
Audibert, Martine - HAL - 2011
. After a long time of disinterest in the agriculture sector in Africa, several voices arise now in favour of greater efforts …Contrary to Asian countries, the agricultural sector in Africa had not benefited from the green revolution success … towards this sector. Several studies tend to show the crucial role of agriculture in African countries' growth and highlight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835404
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The importance of design for firms' competitiveness: a review of the literature
D'Ippolito, Beatrice - HAL - 2014
Scholars dedicated increasing attention towards appreciating how design has changed individuals' perception of new products, firms' understanding and formulation of strategy, or other relevant actors' approach to innovation and technology management. By emphasising the importance of design for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738948
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Creating value : the case of iPhone's launch on the French market
Moreno, Christina; Besson, Madeleine - HAL - 2009
Major theoretical contributions have recently advocated a paradigm shift to a "new dominant logic for marketing", integrating customer-to-customer interactions and balancing "high tech and high touch" services. In this paper we attempt to illustrate the relevance of such a framework to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791701
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Do strategic partnerships create value? "The empirical case of SBF 250 firms"
Saci, Fateh; Aliouat, Boualem - HAL - 2014
Strategic partnerships are theoretically now considered as real levers of value creation. This value creation takes different forms . The objective of our research, after analyzing the results of empirical works focused on the acquisitions announcements impact on the stock market performance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930057
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Discurso y realidad. Relaciones comerciales y cooperación entre Brasil y África
Díaz, Manuel Burón; Mogro-Moreno, Paola Solíz - HAL - 2013
En un mundo progresivamente multipolar, y por tanto ante un sistema internacional cada vez más desordenado, Brasil, así como otras potencias emergentes, buscan diversificar sus relaciones comerciales ante el declive de Europa y el auge de China. De este novedoso reajuste en el tablero...
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Sub-Saharan African Cotton Policies in Retrospect
Delpeuch, Claire; Leblois, Antoine - HAL - 2011
Calls for liberalizing cash crop sectors in sub-saharan Africa have been voiced for decades. Yet, the impact of reforms … West Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738787
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Transportation Infrastructure and Development in Ghana
Jedwab, Rémi; Moradi, Alexandre - HAL - 2011
We study the impact of transportation infrastructure on agriculture and development in colonial Ghana. Two railway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738826
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Transportation Conditions and Access to Services in a Context of Urban Sprawl and Deregulation. The Case of Dar es Salaam
Olvera, Lourdes Diaz; Plat, Didier; Pochet, Pascal - HAL - 2003
Major deficiencies in urbanisation and transportation systems are reinforcing patterns of social and urban segregation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city. Analysis of the 1993 Human Resources Development Survey shows that there are numerous obstacles to the daily travel of the city's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790604
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Meta-analysis of travel of the poor in West and Southern african cities
Behrens, Roger; Olvera, Lourdes Diaz; Plat, Didier; … - HAL - 2004
to transport planners and policy-makers in Africa to bridge the French-English language divide. The aim of the paper is … Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal and South Africa, enables a meta-analysis of African travel survey findings amongst low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790719
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Liberalization and globalization: Trojan Horse for the cotton traders' domination in Francophone Africa
Fok, Michel - HAL - 2006
The Francophone African Countries (FACs) exclusively fight for the abolition of subsidies applied by a few big cotton producing countries. Although legitimate, it is doubtful that the outcome could be so much satisfactory because subsidizing countries have room in re-arranging measures of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791533