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The Case of Côte d'Ivoire
No full textCôte d’Ivoire seeks a development strategy to reach middle-income status—a challenge that would require annual growth rates averaging 10 percent over the next 13 years. Global experience of both developed and emerging economies shows that GDP per capita rises with increased urbanization. However, Côte d’Ivoire’s economy is underperforming relative to its level of urbanization. The country’s urbanization has been negatively correlated with income per capita since the late 1970s, and poverty has been increasing.
Rather than consider development of cities individually, successful urbanization plans in Côte d’Ivoire should consider the country’s cities as a portfolio of assets, each differentiated by characteristics that include size, location, and density of settlements.
The authors of Diversified Urbanization: The Case of Côte d’Ivoire identify three types of cities on the basis of their contribution to growth and job creation: Global Connectors, Regional Connectors along major corridors for regional transport and trade, and Domestic Connectors of localization economies for agribusiness.
Stakeholders from the national government, local governments, and the private sector have a shared vision for urbanization in the country—cities that are planned, structured, competitive, attractive, inclusive, and organized around development poles. To achieve this vision and the goal of middle-income status, Ivorian policy makers need to act urgently to support diversified urbanization across all city types. This book identifies important constraints and opportunities along four dimensions: planning, connecting, greening, and financing cities
Market Access in Troubled Times
Get PDFSub-Saharan Africa represents only a small share of global production and trade while hosting half of the extreme poor worldwide. To catch up with the rest of the world, the continent has no alternative: it must undertake reforms to scale up its supply capacity while better linking its production and trade to the global economy. If it does so, it stands to gain from unlimited demand and innovation along the supply chain. Some progress has been made over the past decade, with the region’s exports and imports growing rapidly. Because most African economies rely heavily on trade for a large share of national income, they will also be more vulnerable to the trade disruptions of external shocks, as illustrated by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Africa in the New Trade Environment: Market Access in Troubled Times provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art analysis by a team of renowned trade economists who present a strategy to bolster Sub-Saharan Africa’s market access in the current global environment
Autisme au Mali : Connaissances, Croyances et Attitudes Pratiques(cas de Bamako)
No full textIntroduction : Le dépistage précoce de l'autisme est crucial pour l'amélioration du pronostic, par des interventions adaptées et précoces. Au Mali, le personnel de santé et d'éducation peuvent jouer un rôle déterminant dans ce(s) dépistage précoce et interventions adaptées ; les professionnels de communication peuvent eux à leur tour jouer un rôle de transmission de message sur le sujet de l'autisme à la population générale. Mais ceux-ci pourraient manquer de connaissances et d'entraînement ; les campagnes de sensibilisation de masse sur le problème n'ayant débuté qu'en 2016 à Bamako. Le but du travail était de déterminer les connaissances, croyances et attitudes pratiques du personnel de santé, d'éducation et de communication sur l'autisme. Méthodes : Nous avons mené de Septembre en Décembre 2017, une enquête sur un échantillon de personnel de santé, d'éducation et de communication dans dix structures sanitaires et trois structures universitaires et à la FEMATH dans la capitale malienne(Bamako). Résultats : Au total, 329 personnes ont participé à l'étude dont 80 médecins ; 204 étudiants et 37 tradithérapeutes. 46.6 p.100 des enquêtés de haut niveau d'instruction ne connaissaient pas exactement la définition de la nature pathologique de l'autisme ; 71.9 p.100 d'entre eux n'avaient jamais identifié un enfant autiste dans leurs expériences et 88.7 p.100 d'entre eux ne connaissaient pas les troubles de communication de l'enfant autiste avec les autres. Les gestes stéréotypés et répétitifs étaient à 100 p.100 ignorés par les huit journalistes. Les tradithérapeutes, dans 62.2 p.100 des cas n'avaient pas pu retenir complètement le diagnostic de l'autisme, malgré le suivi de la présentation sur l'autisme lors du séminaire. Les croyances magico-religieuses étaient beaucoup plus observées chez les tradithérapeutes avec 73.0 p.100 . De même ceux-ci avaient proposé dans 18.9 p.100 des cas, des pratiques néfastes envers les enfants autistes. Conclusion : Cette étude met en évidence des lacunes au niveau des connaissances du personnel de santé, d'éducation et de communication sur l'autisme, des croyances magico- religieuses et attitudes néfastes. Des campagnes de sensibilisation et des ateliers de formation sur le thème, doivent être effectué(e)s et poursuivi(e)s sur l'étendue du territoire national ; ainsi, la création de centres spécialisés doit être faite
A New Dawn for Global Value Chain Participation in the Philippines
No full textA New Dawn for Global Value Chain Participation in the Philippines provides policy recommendations to increase the Philippines’ global value chain (GVC) participation in a post–COVID-19 (coronavirus) world. The Philippines could indeed benefit from the shifting dynamics of GVCs by attracting more investments as investors look for alternative production sources less sensitive to trade tensions. The book uses up-to-date trade data, analysis of megatrends affecting selected value chains, and interviews with multinational companies and their local suppliers to inform a strategic approach to rethink, diversify, and reorient the country’s GVC participation. The main finding is that the crisis can help strengthen the country’s foreign direct investment attractiveness and motivate operators in GVCs to develop the domestic skills they need for more advantageous GVC participation. The book also explores policies to mobilize key stakeholders (government, lead firms, and domestic suppliers) and to foster participation in three strategic GVC clusters: industrial, manufacturing, and transportation; technology, media, and telecommunications; and health and life sciences
Evaluating the trade effect of developing regional trade agreements : a semi-parametric approach
Get PDFMany recent papers have pointed to ambiguous trade effects of developing regional trade agreements (RTAs), calling for a reassessment of their economic merits. The author focuses on seven such agreements currently in force in Sub-Saharan Africa (ECOWAS and SADC), Asia (AFTA and SAPTA) and Latin America (CACM, CAN, and MERCOSUR), estimating their impacts on their members'trade flows. Instead of the usual dummy variables for RTAs, he proposes a variable taking into account the number of years of membership. He then combines a gravity model with kernel estimation techniques to capture the non-monotonic trade effects while imposing minimal structure on the model. The results indicate that except for SAPTA, these RTAs have had a positive impact on their members'intra-trade over the estimation period (1960-99). AFTA seems to be the most successful among them, with an estimated positive impact on its members'imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade diversion), but its impact on their exports to the rest of the world is rather limited. During its first 10 years of existence, ECOWAS appears to have had a positive impact on its members'imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade diversion), but this positive impact vanished over time. SAPTA's negative impact on its members'intra-trade is probably an implicit effect of the India-Pakistan tensions over the estimation period.Free Trade,Trade Law,Trade Policy,Economic Theory&Research,Trade and Regional Integration
Evaluating the Trade Effect of Developing Regional Trade Agreements : A Semi-parametric Approach
No full textMany recent papers have pointed to
ambiguous trade effects of developing regional trade
agreements (RTAs), calling for a reassessment of their
economic merits. The author focuses on seven such agreements
currently in force in Sub-Saharan Africa (ECOWAS and SADC),
Asia (AFTA and SAPTA) and Latin America (CACM, CAN, and
MERCOSUR), estimating their impacts on their members'
trade flows. Instead of the usual dummy variables for RTAs,
he proposes a variable taking into account the number of
years of membership. He then combines a gravity model with
kernel estimation techniques to capture the non-monotonic
trade effects while imposing minimal structure on the model.
The results indicate that except for SAPTA, these RTAs have
had a positive impact on their members' intra-trade
over the estimation period (1960-99). AFTA seems to be the
most successful among them, with an estimated positive
impact on its members' imports from the rest of the
world (hence no trade diversion), but its impact on their
exports to the rest of the world is rather limited. During
its first 10 years of existence, ECOWAS appears to have had
a positive impact on its members' imports from the rest
of the world (hence no trade diversion), but this positive
impact vanished over time. SAPTA's negative impact on
its members' intra-trade is probably an implicit effect
of the India-Pakistan tensions over the estimation period
Urbanization and productivity : evidence from Turkish provinces over the period 1980 - 2000 / Souleymane Coulibaly; Uwe Deichmann; Somik Lall
Get PDFEtude épidémiologique des troubles psychiatriques en milieu rural à Markacoungo
No full textNotre étude avait pour objectif d'évaluation l'ampleur des troubles mentaux en milieu rural Il s'agissait d'une étude transversale et descriptive portant sur 388 cas. La fréquence des troubles psychiatriques étaient de 7,8 p.100 ; les troubles de l'humeur les plus représentés soit 99,2 p.100,les troubles anxieux 44,8 p.100 ; le sexe ratio était de 1,14 en faveur des femmes ; les sujets de 15-24ans étaient les plus représentés avec 29,9 p.100 ; les ménagères représentaient 44,3 p.100 de nos patients ; les mariés ont été prédominants avec 54,1 p.100 ; les non scolarisér représentaient 50,8 p.100 ; bon nombres de nos patients résidaient en milieu rural soit 67,8 p.100 ; les patients qui avaient un antécédent familial psychiatrique étaient les plus touchés avec 38,1 p.100 ; les crises convulsives étaient le motif de consultation les plus représentées avec 71,1 p.100 ; le syndrome épileptiforme présentait 54,1 p.100
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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