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Le paradoxe de Sikasso : coton et pauvreté au Mali

Delarue, Jocelyne; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Naudet, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

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 cotton producers are on average poorer than all other farmers. This article offers a …

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Those in Kayes. The impact of remittances on the recipients in Africa

Azam, Jean-Paul; Gubert, Flore - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

Kayes area (Western Mali), the main source of Soninke labor migration to France. …

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Migrants' Home Town Associations and Local Development in Mali

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Mercier, Marion; Gubert, Flore; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2015

local public goods in Mali. To this end, we compute an original dataset on all the HTAs that have been created by Malian … and without an HTA, before and after HTAs developed their activity in Mali. We find that Malian HTAs have significantly …

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Does monetary poverty reflect caloric intake?

Bocoum, Ibrahima; Dury, Sandrine; Egg, Johny; Herrera, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

The use of expenditure surveys to measure food insecurity is widely discussed. In this study, we investigate food insecurity in terms of monetary poverty. Using a Malian survey that incorporates exceptionally detailed information on food consumption, we estimate that 35 % of the households are...

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Migrants' Remittances and the Household in Africa: A Review of Evidence

Azam, Jean-Paul; Gubert, Flore - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

survey of the literature, it draws some lessons from two surveys performed in the Senegal River valley in Mali and in Senegal …

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Do remittances affect poverty and inequality ? Evidence from Mali

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Lessourd, Thomas; Gubert, Flore - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones …

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The impact of income shocks on children education: the 1987-1989 locust plague in Mali

Guilbert, Nathalie; de Vreyer, Philippe; Mesplé-Somps, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

-1989 locust invasion in Mali. Using exhaustive Population Census data, we construct birth cohorts of individuals and compare those …

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Perspectives on growth and poverty reduction in Mali

Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Raffinot, Marc - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2004

Since the 1994 devaluation, growth resumed in Mali without any significant decrease of poverty. This may be explained …

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The 1987-1989 Locust Plague in Mali: Evidences of the Heterogeneous Impact of Income Shocks on Education Outcomes

de Vreyer, Philippe; Guilbert, Nathalie; Mesplé-Somps, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

-1989 locust invasion in Mali. Using exhaustive Population Census data, we construct birth cohorts of individuals and compare those …

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Migration and Development: Mixed evidence from western Mali

Gubert, Flore - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007

Flore Gubert examines the investment-oriented initiatives of Malian migrants in their home to illustrate that out migration has a strong impact on poverty reduction in the Kayes area. She proposes that migration-cum-remittances alone do not create the right conditions for genuine development...

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