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With more than 10million children out of school, Nigeria is the country furthest away from universal primary education …. A tradition of religious education in northern Nigeria has been seen as an opportunity for expanding access to secular …
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Nigeria by an MNC working through a nonprofit organization and local business actors. Supply and demand-side analyses show …
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productive assets in Nigeria. Using recall data, difference-in-differences, and propensity score matching approaches, the study …
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We wondered how corruption, endemic in Nigeria, is experienced by a specific and understudied set of actors …
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towns in Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa’s most populous country with the region’s most complex urban system. This paper also … urban in sub-Saharan Africa has slowed or is even stagnating. This has major policy implications. Many standard reviews of … attempts to address this knowledge gap and shows how Nigeria’s level of urbanization has also been significantly over-estimated. …
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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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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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Voluntary standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. We analyze and compare impacts of three sustainability-oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score...
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This paper analyzes the adoption and welfare impacts of improved maize varieties in eastern Zambia using data obtained from a sample of over 800 farm households. Using both propensity score matching and endogenous switching regression models, the paper shows that adoption of improved maize leads...
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Using the longitudinal household panel data drawn from rural Tanzania (1991–2004), this study investigates impacts of the land reform on women’s marriage-motivated relocation. During the period under study, several villages that initially banned a widow’s land inheritance abolished this...
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