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Coping with the Upheavals of Globalization in the Shea Value Chain: The Maintenance and Relevance of Upstream Shea Nut Supply Chain Organization in Western Burkina Faso
Rousseau, Karen; Gautier, Denis; Wardell, D. Andrew - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 413-427
Market globalization has had only a weak impact on the regional shea nut supply chain in western Burkina Faso despite the boom in the shea trade and the arrival of leading foreign firms. We show that despite the fact that wholesalers have kept the shea chain locked in an oligarchic organization...
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Rural People’s Reliance on Forests and the Non-Forest Environment in West Africa: Evidence from Ghana and Burkina Faso
Pouliot, Mariève; Treue, Thorsten - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 180-193
Based on data from 1014 households in Ghana and Burkina Faso, we demonstrate that non-forest environmental products play a crucial role in rural livelihoods, especially for women and the poorest. Forest incomes are generally small but richer households and especially men from these derive...
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Income Risk and Household Schooling Decisions in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan - In: World Development 40 (2012) 8, pp. 1647-1662
I study the effects of income uncertainty on household schooling decisions. Households with more volatile incomes have a greater incentive to build a buffer stock to insure against unforeseen adverse shocks, and non-enrollment can be part of such a strategy. I use data from rural Burkina Faso,...
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Privatization of Education and Labor Force Inequality in Urban Francophone Africa: The Transition from School to Work in Ouagadougou
Calvès, Anne E.; Kobiané, Jean-François; N’Bouké, … - In: World Development 47 (2013) C, pp. 136-148
research investigates a largely unexplored issue in Africa: the impact of private schooling on subsequent transition to paid …
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Capturing the Margins: World Market Prices and Cotton Farmer Incomes in West Africa
Bassett, Thomas J. - In: World Development 59 (2014) C, pp. 408-421
cotton prices and producer prices in West Africa. A comparative study of Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire shows that national … structure of West Africa’s cotton economies exert a strong influence on the share of world market prices that producers …
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Tradeoffs or Synergies? Assessing Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement through Case Studies in Burkina Faso and Guatemala
Harou, Aurélie P.; Upton, Joanna B.; Lentz, Erin C.; … - In: World Development 49 (2013) C, pp. 44-57
We compare the impacts across a range of criteria of local and regional procurement (LRP) relative to transoceanic shipment of food aid in Burkina Faso and Guatemala. We find that neither instrument dominates the other across all criteria in either country, although LRP commonly performs at...
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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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Aiding and Abetting: Project Aid and Ethnic Politics in Kenya
Briggs, Ryan C. - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 194-205
I analyze a unique dataset of sub-national resource allocations in Kenya from 1989 to 1995 and show that project aid and local funds were disproportionately directed to the president’s political base. Per-donor analyses of aid flows show that bilateral donors and the African Development Bank...
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