111 research outputs found
Étude de postes et adaptation d'un système de gestion du personnel en Côte d'Ivoire
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Using a New Approach to Design Innovative Tools for Monitoring and Evaluating Water Policy of Burkina Faso in Response to Climate Risks
No full textClimate change impacts on water resources have jeopardized human security in the Sahel countries for many decades, especially in achieving food security. Many strategies and policies have been made to address such impacts. However, there are still difficulties to measure progress and the effectiveness of these policies and strategies with regard to climate risks. The lack of practical and consensual monitoring tool is one of the factors that can explain gaps in policies and initiatives to overcome these impacts. To move towards filling this gap, using ClimProspect model and a participatory approach, and based on in-depth vulnerability analysis, this paper makes available some innovative integrated and coherent resilience indicators and a new index for Burkina Faso’s water resources. Taking into account both climate and disaster risks, the indicators and index developed are related to warning, responses, recovery and long term resilience. The indicators-based index applied to three sites shows that agriculture water is less resilient to a changing climate with a score varying from 22.66% to 24%. These tools can help in formulating, implementation and reviewing water policy to secure water resources under the stress of climate change. The approach and findings bring together, on one hand, social and ecological resilience to climate risks, and sciences and policy on the other
Activites de transport terrestre et risques sanitaires dans la ville de San-Pedro (Cote d’Ivoire)
No full textLes activités de transport terrestre sont fondamentales dans le processus de la mondialisation. Leurs développements engendrent la pollution, les accidents de la route et surtout les maladies professionnelles. Du fait de la croissance vertigineuse du parc automobile ivoirien, de l’âge des véhicules et de leur état technique précaire, beaucoup de polluants sont rejetés par la circulation automobile. Ceux-ci influencent le milieu physique et humain. Les activités de transport provoquent l’externalité négative. Cette étude vise à identifier les différents risques encourus par les transporteurs à San-Pedro. La recherche documentaire et l’enquête de terrain constituent les techniques de collecte des données et des informations utilisées. Les résultats montrent que les conséquences majeures de la pollution touchent la santé publique et l’écologie. En effet les nuisances sonores sont le quotidien de la ville de San-Pedro. Les riverains des routes, de l’aéroport, du port et des zones industrielles sont confrontés aux risques sanitaires. L’impact des transports sur la santé est également lié à l’âge des personnes et des modes de transport utilisés. Les accidents de la route endeuillent aussi les familles et font plusieurs blessés. En effet, 35% des personnes de plus de 65 ans sont exposées aux pathologies liées à la pollution de l’air et l’on enregistre plus de 400 accidents par ans à San-Pedro. De même, 65% des conducteurs risquent des Troubles Musculo Squelettiques.
English title: Land transport activities and health risks in the city of San-Pedro (Cote d’Ivoire)
Abstract:
Land transport activities are fundamental in the globalization process. Their developments generate pollution, road accidents and especially occupational diseases. Due to the dizzying growth of the Ivorian vehicle fleet, the age of the vehicles and their precarious technical condition, many pollutants are released by automobile traffic. These influence the physical and human environment. Transport activities cause the negative externality. This study aims to identify the different risks incurred by transporters in San-Pedro. Documentary research and field survey are the data and information collection techniques used. The results show that the major consequences of pollution affect public health and ecology. Indeed, noise pollution is the daily life of the city of San-Pedro. Residents of roads, the airport, the port and industrial areas face health risks. The impact of transport on health is also linked to the age of people and the modes of transport used. Road accidents also mourn families and cause many injuries. Indeed, 35% of people over 65 are exposed to pathologies linked to air pollution and more than 400 accidents are recorded per year in San-Pedro. Similarly, 65% of drivers risk Musculoskeletal Disorders.
Keywords: Côte d’Ivoire, transport, risks, patholog
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The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and its rules of origin : generosity undermined?
No full textThe African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), signed into American law on May 18, 2000, is a major plank of U.S. initiatives toward the African continent. The Act aims broadly at improving economic policymaking in Africa, enabling countries to embrace globalization, and securing durable political and economic stability. As an incentive for Africa to adopt the necessary policy reform, AGOA offers increased preferential access for African exports to the United States. This paper describes the provisions of AGOA and assesses its quantitative impact on African exports, particularly in the apparel sector. Its main conclusions are: 1) AGOA will provide real opportunities to Africa. Even on conservative estimates about Africa's supply response, Africa's non-oil exports could be increased by about 8-11 percent. 2) However, the medium-term gains could have been much greater if AGOA had not imposed certain conditions and not excluded certain items from its coverage. The most important condition is the stringent rule-of-origin, that is, the requirement that exporters source certain inputs from within Africa or the United States. Estimates suggest that the absence of these conditions would have magnified the impact nearly five-fold, resulting in an overall increase in non-oil exports of US100-US$140 million increase that is expected in the presence of these restrictions. These restrictions, particularly on apparel, will come at a particularly inopportune time, as Africa will be exposed to competition from other developing countries when the quotas maintained on the latters'exports under the Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) are eliminated. Africa's apparel exports will be lower by over 30 percent with the dismantling of the MFA. If, on the other hand, AGOA had provided unrestricted access, the negative impact of the dismantling could be nearly fully offset.Export Competitiveness,Economic Theory&Research,Trade Policy,Environmental Economics&Policies,Agribusiness&Markets,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Export Competitiveness,Trade Policy
Macroeconomics effects of private sector participation in Latin America's infrastructure
No full textThe authors provide empirical evidence on the impact that private participation in infrastructure has had on key macroeconomic variables in a sample of 21 Latin American countries from 1985-98. Specifically, they look at the effects on GDP per capita, current public expenditures, public investment, and private investment, controlling for country effects and institutional factors. The authors also investigate the relevance of the specific contractual form of private participation contracts on these variables and show differentiated effects according to contract types. The results suggest that: 1) Private sector involvement in utilities and transport have some, but not impressive, positive effects on GDP per capita. 2) There is some degree of crowding-out of private investment resulting from greenfield projects in utilities, and delayed crowding-in from concessions in transport. 3) There is crowding-in of public investment by private participation in utilities, while there is crowding-out by increased private investment in transport. 4) Private participation in utilities decreases recurrent expenditures, while in transport it results in an increase. The net effect on the public sector account is uncertain, but this uncertainty is a major risk. The revelation of this risk may be the main contribution of this paper since it is inconsistent with the fiscal gains expected by many policymakers as they engage in infrastructure privatization programs.Decentralization,Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Policies,Health Economics&Finance,ICT Policy and Strategies,Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,ICT Policy and Strategies,Scientific Research&Science Parks,Science Education
Facteurs déterminants le tarif de la vidange mécanique des matières de boues d’assainissement à Dakar
No full textAssessment of Social Vulnerability to Flood in Urban Côte d’Ivoire Using the MOVE Framework
No full textCoupled with poor urban development, the increasing urban population of many Sub-Saharan African countries is subject to recurrent severe flooding episodes. In response to these flood events, while the focus is often put on slums and precarious urban settings, the social implications of these floods affect a variety of social classes. Presenting a case study of Cocody, a district of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, known to have the country’s highest number of flood-impacted people, this paper evaluates the social vulnerability of urban Côte d’Ivoire to flooding using the MOVE framework. The MOVE framework (Method for the Improvement of Vulnerability Assessment in Europe) has successfully been used in European contexts to assess social vulnerability of urban areas to geo-environmental disasters such floods. It helped assess the major factors involved in the social vulnerability to urban flooding and to have a good appreciation of the spatial distribution of areas that are vulnerable to urban flood. By taking this framework to the local context, relevant indicators were developed and GIS applications were used to assess spatially the relative social vulnerability of Cocody sub-districts to urban flooding. The results revealed that many sub-districts of Cocody are highly vulnerable to urban floods. Exposure and susceptibility are components that are found to have high influence on vulnerability to flood hazard in the district of Cocody. Their respective indicators need to be addressed properly in order to increase residents’ resilience to urban flooding. The MOVE theoretical framework can be applied in Africa by contextualizing the vulnerability by using local indicators
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