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The Effect of Women’s Bargaining Power on Child Nutrition in Rural Senegal
Lépine, Aurélia; Strobl, Eric - In: World Development 45 (2013) C, pp. 17-30
We examine how women’s bargaining power affects child nutritional status using data from rural Senegal. In order to …
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Missing Millions and Measuring Development Progress
Carr-Hill, Roy - In: World Development 46 (2013) C, pp. 30-44
In developing countries, assessments of progress toward development goals are based increasingly on household surveys. These are inappropriate for obtaining information about the poorest. Typically, they omit by design: the homeless; those in institutions; and mobile, nomadic, or pastoralist...
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Adverse Incorporation and Microfinance among Cross-Border Traders in Senegal
Howson, Cynthia - In: World Development 42 (2013) C, pp. 199-208
microfinance through a case study of cross-border traders in Senegal. Although women’s organizations do not exclude even the …
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Reversing Urban Bias in African Rice Markets: Evidence from Senegal
Demont, Matty; Rutsaert, Pieter; Ndour, Maimouna; … - In: World Development 45 (2013) C, pp. 63-74
food markets. We conduct framed field experiments in two major urban markets in Senegal and find that the majority of urban …
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Returning to Dakar: A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Role of Migration Experience for Occupational Status
Kveder, Mezger; Leonie, Cora; Flahaux, Marie-Laurence - In: World Development 45 (2013) C, pp. 223-238
quantitative data from the MAFE-Senegal survey (2008) and qualitative semi-structured interviews with return migrants. While …
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Parental Education as a Criterion for Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Basant, Rakesh; Sen, Gitanjali - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 803-814
Affirmative action, in the form of reservation policies, to address the issues of inclusion has been in place in India for a long time. While its scope has enlarged with inclusion of new social groups, the efficacy remains a matter of debate. This paper explores if parental education is an...
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Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind. Education Networks and International Trade
Murat, Marina - In: World Development 58 (2014) C, pp. 53-66
University students typically develop between them long-lasting ties of friendship and trust, as well as an attachment to their university. If they are foreign students, they also form a bond to their country of study. This paper investigates the impact of university ties on the UK’s trade...
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Magic and witchcraft: Implications for Democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - In: World Development 24 (1996) 8, pp. 1347-1355
The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of...
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Explaining Africa’s (Dis)advantage
Harrison, Ann E.; Lin, Justin Yifu; Xu, Lixin Colin - In: World Development 63 (2014) C, pp. 59-77
Africa’s economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. In this paper, firm-level data for around 80 … productivity levels and growth. Africa’s conditional advantage is higher in low-tech than in high-tech manufacturing, and exists in … manufacturing but not in services. The key factors explaining Africa’s disadvantage at the firm level are lack of infrastructure …
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The Role of Rural–Urban Migration in the Structural Transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa
de Brauw, Alan; Mueller, Valerie; Lee, Hak Lim - In: World Development 63 (2014) C, pp. 33-42
sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we attempt to describe the present state of rural–urban migration from several … and migration policy in Africa. …
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