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urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time and risk preferences through the individual's intertemporal discount rate and …
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-trained farmers. Based on a study in Senegal this paper hypothesizes that the question of the project placement strategy is vital when … analyzing knowledge diffusion effects of FFS in Africa. Results show that the share of trained farmers in a community is a …
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This article examines the determinants of various rates of agricultural subsidies (output, input, exchange rate distortions, and aggregate) using commodity-level data from eight African countries in the 1980s. Econometric results indicate that structural adjustment policies were more effective...
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deforestation. This paper evaluates the impacts of an ICS dissemination project in urban Senegal implemented by Deutsche … households, we examine the effects of the intervention on charcoal consumption. Given a complex cooking behavior in urban Africa …
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In Senegal mutual health organizations (MHOs) have been present in the greater region of Thiès for years. Despite their …
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In Senegal mutual health organizations (MHOs) have been present in the greater region of Thiès for years. Despite their …
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The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa — Benin, Burkina … Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo — and explores how climate …
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Senegal is the most westerly state of West Africa. The country is relatively flat, with low relief. Its total land area … is 196,192 square kilometers. Its northern border, which is shared with Mauritania, is defined by the Senegal River. The … Falémé River delineates part of the eastern border with Mali; Guinea and Guinea-Bissau are Senegal’s southern neighbors, and …
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(english) Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in exercising an economic activity and in assuming their domestic activities. Husbands’ insufficient or inexistent income has increased women’s role in household survival...
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urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time and risk preferences through the individual's intertemporal discount rate and …
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