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Using memories to assess the intrapersonal comparability of wellbeing reports

Kaiser, Caspar - 2020

Research on subjective wellbeing typically assumes that responses to survey questions are comparable across respondents and across time. However, if this assumption is violated, standard methods in empirical research may mislead. I address this concern with three contributions. First, I give a...

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Determinants of tuberculosis incidence in East Asia and Pacific: A panel regression analysis

Alipio, Mark - 2020

exposure, unemployment (percent of total labor force), percent of people using at least basic sanitation services, percent of …, for every one unit increase in the kiloton of CO2 emission and in the percent of people using at least basic sanitation … expenditure, high carbon dioxide emission and high percent of people using at least basic sanitation service, had low incidence of …

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Does Turkey support development in West Africa? The example of Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Turkey considered only North Africa a substantial part of the Ottoman Empire and neglected sub-Saharan Africa unless vital interests were at stake. However, the apathy of successive Turkish governments changed with the 1998 "Africa Action Plan". Since then, the...

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On the impact of the 2023 Sudanese war on Africa and beyond

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

For decades, the history of Sudan, Africa's third largest country with around 46 million inhabitants, has been marked by violent clashes between the northern, Muslim and Arab military elites of the capital Khartoum at the expense of the civilian population. Since Sudan gained independence in...

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Moral Money in Sub-Saharan Africa ? Ensuring ethics to drive sustainable investment

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

Money rules the world. But the importance of money is far greater than conventional economic theory and its heroic equations suggest. People have invented their own forms of currency, they have used money in ways that baffle market theorists, they have incorporated money into friendship and...

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L'impact de la guerre du Soudan de 2023 sur l'Afrique et au-delà

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

Depuis des décennies, l'histoire du Soudan, troisième plus grand pays d'Afrique avec environ 46 millions d'habitants, est marquée par de violents affrontements entre les élites militaires du Nord, musulmanes et arabes de la capitale Khartoum aux dépens de la population civile. Depuis que le...

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Le Brésil, soutient-il le développement en Afrique de l'Ouest ? L'exemple du Nigeria, du Ghana et du Sénégal

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

Les relations étrangères et commerciales du Brésil avec l'Afrique subsaharienne (ASS) remontent à la traite négrière portugaise. Sur les 9,5 millions de personnes capturées en Afrique entre le XVIe et le XIXe siècle et amenées dans le Nouveau Monde, près de 4 millions se sont...

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L'eau, une bénédiction et une malédiction: comment résoudre les conflits liés à l'eau en Afrique de l'Ouest?

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

Pour de nombreux Africains, l'eau n'est pas seulement la source de la vie, mais aussi un moyen de purification et un centre de régénération. Les rituels et les cultes de l'eau, tels que «Mami Wata», conduisent leurs adeptes à la libération du corps et de l'esprit. Mais les rites...

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La Turquie soutient-elle le développement en Afrique de l'Ouest ? L'exemple du Nigeria, du Ghana et de la Côte d'Ivoire

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

Aux XIXe et XXe siècles, la Turquie ne considérait que l'Afrique du Nord comme une partie substantielle de l'Empire ottoman et négligeait l'Afrique subsaharienne à moins que des intérêts vitaux ne soient en jeu. Cependant, l'apathie des gouvernements turcs successifs a changé avec le «...

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Does Brazil support development in West Africa? The example of Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

Brazil’s foreign and trade relations with Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) date back to the Portuguese slave trade. Of the 9.5 million people captured in Africa and brought to the New World between the 16th and 19th centuries, nearly 4 million landed in Rio de Janeiro, i.e. ten times more than all...

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