Scientific newssheets
Human and social sciences -
South Africa,
Angola,
Archipelago of the Canaries,
Benin,
Burkina Faso,
Cameroon,
Cape Verde,
Central Africa,
Congo,
Ivory Coast,
Gabon,
Gambia,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Equatorial Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Liberia,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Niger,
Nigeria,
Democratic republic of Congo,
Rwanda,
Sao Tomé and Principe,
Senegal,
Sierra Leone,
Chad,
Togo,
Botswana,
Burundi,
Comoros,
Djibouti,
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Mauritius,
Kenya,
Reunion,
Lesotho,
Madagascar,
Malawi,
Mayotte,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Uganda,
Seychelles,
Somalia,
Sudan,
Swaziland,
Tanzania,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe
December 2007
The population of Sub-Saharan Africa is continuing to grow at twice the rate recorded in Latin America and Asia. This exceptional population growth is a major handicap for efforts to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Objectives (MDO) in most of the countries lying South of the Sahara. With ...
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Scientific newssheets
Human and social sciences -
Burkina Faso,
Togo
April 2007
The work of an IRD ethnologist sheds light on an unusual custom, organization of ritual fires, a practice specific to certain groups of the Voltaic culture in Togo and Burkina Faso. This regular ancestral practice, involving annual fire-lighting ceremonies on sites that have been strictly ...
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Scientific newssheets
Human and social sciences -
Benin,
Ivory Coast,
Madagascar
February 2007
Global corruption indicators and, on a broader front, global governance indicators, based principally on experts’ perception, are currently widely used for determining the allocation of public aid for development. However, IRD economists from research unit UR 047 (DIAL) compared results of ...
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