{"title":"Urbanisation and Conflicts in North and West Africa","authors":"","doi":"10.1787/3fc68183-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/3fc68183-en","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152730,"journal":{"name":"West African Studies","volume":"217 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131602519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Borders and Conflicts in North and West Africa","authors":"","doi":"10.1787/6da6d21e-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/6da6d21e-en","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152730,"journal":{"name":"West African Studies","volume":"43 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124784877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women and Trade Networks in West Africa","authors":"Sahel, West Africa Club","doi":"10.1787/7D67B61D-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/7D67B61D-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152730,"journal":{"name":"West African Studies","volume":"115 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129047965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sahel and West Africa Club","authors":"Sahel, West Africa Club","doi":"10.1787/585A037A-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/585A037A-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152730,"journal":{"name":"West African Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127893478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obstacles and perspectives","authors":"Sahel, West Africa Club","doi":"10.1787/5CE14FB2-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/5CE14FB2-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152730,"journal":{"name":"West African Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114886490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender and cross-border trade networks","authors":"Sahel, West Africa Club","doi":"10.1787/b9b47dbd-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/b9b47dbd-en","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 maps the women and men involved in the rice sector of the Niger River valley, between Benin, Niger and Nigeria. Using a relational approach, this analysis shows that women occupy a structurally peripheral position in the network relative to men no matter which measure of centrality is used. There are fewer women in the sector, they have fewer commercial partners, they are less likely to be intermediaries and are much less well-connected to very central actors than their male counterparts. These findings demonstrate the importance of social networks to regional economic development and the social inequalities that they can generate. From a spatial perspective, this study shows that three-quarters of entrepreneurs develop business relationships within their own countries. Only a minority of wholesalers are capable of delivering rice to the large Nigerian consumption markets despite Nigeria’s import restrictions.","PeriodicalId":152730,"journal":{"name":"West African Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125404221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women’s participation in markets in West Africa","authors":"Sahel, West Africa Club","doi":"10.1787/00099C2C-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/00099C2C-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152730,"journal":{"name":"West African Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116786191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The governance networks supporting women entrepreneurs in West Africa","authors":"Sahel, West Africa Club","doi":"10.1787/A69A96D5-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/A69A96D5-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152730,"journal":{"name":"West African Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132389651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping trade and governance networks in West Africa","authors":"Sahel, West Africa Club","doi":"10.1787/250D9291-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/250D9291-EN","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 discusses the methodological characteristics of social network analysis and its application to the study of the role of women in trade networks and the governance of women’s economic activities in West Africa. It shows that the analysis of social networks differs from that of value chains, usually used to visualise the phases of the process at which actors are integrated from raw materials to final product. Rather, social network analysis maps the ensemble of actors involved in an agricultural sector or in a type of public policy and measures their structural importance with respect to their attributes, such as gender or nationality. In recent years, social network analysis has seen a resurgence of interest amongst international organisations, progressively becoming a tool for public policy and a lever for local autonomy.","PeriodicalId":152730,"journal":{"name":"West African Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122243938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}