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Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan
Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim - 1989
Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438848
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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986
Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and …The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … low in Eastern and Southern Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438868
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Use of decision support systems to improve dam planning and dam operation in Africa. [Report of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food project on Improved Planning of Large...
McCartney, Matthew; King, J. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907343
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Displaced Populations, Humanitarian Assistance and Hosts: A Framework for Analyzing Impacts on Semi-urban Households
Alix-Garcia, Jennifer; Bartlett, Anne; Saah, David - In: World Development 40 (2012) 2, pp. 373-386
This paper presents a framework for understanding the impacts of civil war, displaced populations, and humanitarian assistance on host populations in semi-urban areas. Our model shows that under conditions of conflict where populations flow from rural to urban areas and food aid follows, changes...
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The economic importance and impacts of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in Sudan
Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
IPRs in Sudan. We find that the inadequacy of IPRs protection in Sudan is attributed to low integration in the … industry and lack of coordination. The inadequate IPRs protection in Sudan leads to poor national system of innovation …, hindering FDI and hindering transfer of technology. The factors contributing toward enhancing IPRs in Sudan include promotion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712175
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A tale of industrial stagnation from Africa
Dagdeviren, Hulya; Mahran, Hatim - In: International Review of Applied Economics 24 (2010) 4, pp. 495-510
-known explanation is that resource endowments in Africa favour land not labour, which results in high wages, especially in comparison … with 'labour abundant' Asian economies. This paper examines the validity of this view on the basis of the case of Sudan. We …
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Forced displacement and behavioral change: An empirical study of returnee households in the Nuba Mountains
Rahim, Asha Abdel; Jaimovich, Dany; Ylönen, Aleksi - Households in Conflict Network - 2013
started returning to their communities of origin in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. We use unique data gathered shortly after the …
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WORLD DEVELOPMENT, 2000-2010: PRODUCTION, INVESTMENT AND SAVINGS IN 21 AREAS OF AMERICA, AFRICA, ASIA-PACIFIC, EUROPE AND EURASIA
GUISAN, Maria-Carmen - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 14 (2014) 2
countries. We analyze the evolution of investment and savings in 132 countries of America, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and …
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L'invention africaine des sociétés civiles : déni théorique, figure imposée, prolifération empirique
Poncelet, Marc; Pirotte, Gautier - In: Mondes en développement n° 139 (2007) 3, pp. 9-23
For some fifteen years, the debate relating to civil society and the roles of the latter accompanied the crisis of post-colonial African societies and the reshaping of international development policies. The "historical hindsight" allows to highlight a vast debate, of a theoretical nature, on...
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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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