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This paper estimates the preferences of farmers for cattle traits in southern Burkina Faso using Conjoint analysis, a survey-based system for measuring preferences for multiple-attribute goods. Here the technique is used in the context of a West African country where literacy is low, where...
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and downstream country, Burkina Faso and Ghana respectively, where the latter country faces a tradeoff of water use … between the countries sustaining in the event of climate change. Our results indicate that during cooperation, Ghana will have … stromabwärts gelegenen Ghana, das vor der Aufgabe steht, zwischen der landwirtschaftlichen Nutzung des Wassers im Norden und der …
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Burkina Faso and Ghana. It employs Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data for both Burkina Faso and Ghana 2014 in achieving …
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moving south towards the four countries of interest of this paper (Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal and Togo). At the time of … writing, all except Ghana have experienced direct jihadist attacks, and all have reported extremist encroachment and recent … flows could be equivalent to between 1.3% (Ghana) and nearly 5% (Senegal) of GDP. Another pathway is through 'conflict …
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This book investigates the diverse and dynamic forms of migration within Africa. Centring themes of agency, resource flows, and transnational networks, the book examines the enduring appeal of the Global South as a place of origin, transit, and destination. Popular media, government...
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. The environment literature highlights important environment issues in air, land and water, including deforestation … Burkina Faso's government and donors in environment and development areas, acknowledge the urgent need of facing these … challenges efficiently, the first of which seems to be deciding how to finance the environment strategies. Of the €8 million …
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Ghana, where there has been a rising industrial growth amidst low regulatory and institutional frameworks. We analyze the … 842 firms (447 for Nigeria and 395 for Ghana) distributed across different regions of both countries for our descriptive … protection is dismally low in both Nigeria (32 percent) and Ghana (17 percent), with policies focused on reducing solid (38 …
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In Namibia, as in many parts of Africa, households are highly dependent on fastdegrading forest resources for their livelihoods, including energy needs. Using data originally collected for Namibia's forest resource accounts and insights from a nonseparable household model, this paper empirically...
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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is built on a conceptual framework that links biodiversity to the services ecosystems provide to society. Based on this framework, we first compile market and non-market forest valuation studies and, secondly, explore the potential of an econometric modeling...
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