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Labor differentiation and cotton productivity in Burkina Faso 布基纳法索劳动力分工与棉花生产率

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African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12751

Aminata Zong-naba, Aké G.-M. N'gbo, Omer S. Combary

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Who supports the African Union? Understanding the determinants of citizens' opinion for African integration 谁支持非洲联盟？了解公民对非洲一体化看法的决定因素

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African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12750

Simplice A. Asongu, Samba Diop, Cheikh T. Ndiaye

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Tax revenue mobilization and institutional quality in sub-Saharan Africa: An empirical investigation 撒哈拉以南非洲的税收动员和机构质量：实证调查

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African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12752

Mamadou Bah

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On the measurement of corporate governance and its impact on bank profitability and credit risk: The case of Tunisian listed banks 公司治理的衡量及其对银行盈利能力和信贷风险的影响：突尼斯上市银行案例

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African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12748

Amal Jmaii, Noomene Zaafouri, Hella Guerchi Mehri

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Impact of carbon pricing on comparative advantage in environmental goods export in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence of asymmetries from South Africa 碳定价对撒哈拉以南非洲环境产品出口比较优势的影响：南非的不对称证据

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African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12742

Chika A. Anisiuba, Hillary Chijindu Ezeaku, Samuel Manyo Takon, Maureen Ifeoma Iyke-Ofoedu, Godwin Imo Ibe, Obiamaka P. Egbo

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Impact de l'intégration financière régionale sur le commerce intra régional des produits manufacturés dans la zone CEDEAO 地区金融一体化对西非经共体地区内制成品贸易的影响

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African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12746

Abdoul Rachid Issoufou Dogo

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Determinants of illicit capital movement in China-Africa trade: Evidence of trade misinvoicing 中非贸易中非法资本流动的决定因素：贸易虚开发票的证据

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African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12747

Arcade Ndoricimpa, Eduardo Araral

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Does foreign direct investment promote access to basic services? The case of drinking water in Africa 外国直接投资是否促进了基本服务的获取？非洲饮用水案例

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African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12743

Armand Totouom, Joseph P. Ngameni, Rosine F. Poumeni

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Educational assortative mating in the Cameroon marriage market: Role of marriage timing 喀麦隆婚姻市场中的教育同配：结婚时间的作用

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African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12744

Fiennasah A. Akem, Ebenezer L. Wirba, Honore Oumbe Tekam

{"title":"Educational assortative mating in the Cameroon marriage market: Role of marriage timing","authors":"Fiennasah A. Akem, Ebenezer L. Wirba, Honore Oumbe Tekam","doi":"10.1111/1467-8268.12744","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8268.12744","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing education of women in developing countries, educational assortative mating has become a significant aspect in the marriage market, with educational assortative mating patterns likely to be dependent on marriage timing. Using pooled data from three recent waves of the Cameroon Demographic and Health Surveys, the paper investigates the effect of marriage timing on educational assortative mating patterns in Cameroon. To achieve the objective, the study employed the Cox proportional hazard model and a control function version of multinomial Probit. Results show that delaying marriage is expected to decrease the likelihood of women engaging in low educationally homogamous marriages while increasing the probability of women entering high educationally homogamous and hypogamous marriages. Findings further depicted that over the period 2004–2018, the likelihood of women engaging in low educationally homogamous marriages decreased meanwhile the likelihood of women considering high educationally homogamous marriages and hypogamous marriages increased. The implications of these findings are in tandem with the wisdom that, programs encouraging the girl child to delay early marriages and stay longer in school can help women engage in high educationally homogamous marriages, empower women and thus improves their socioeconomic status.","PeriodicalId":47363,"journal":{"name":"African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8268.12744","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140225929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Issue Information - Author Guidelines 发行信息 - 作者指南

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African Development Review-Revue Africaine De Developpement Pub Date : 2024-03-11 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8268.12687

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