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Corruption et sorties illicites de capitaux dans les pays de l’Afrique subsaharienne: La démocratie compte-elle vraiment?
Get PDFThe objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of corruption on illicit capital outflows in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. More specifically, we measured the direct effect of corruption on illicit capital flows on the one hand and analyzed the effect of democracy on the relationship between corruption and illicit capital flows on the other. The results obtained using the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) on a panel of 36 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2005 to 2013, show that corruption significantly increases illicit capital outflows. However, democracy helps mitigate the positive effect of corruption on illicit capital flight. In sum, aggressive anti-corruption policies and the promotion of democracy in SSA are likely to reduce illicit capital outflows
Dynamics of household housing tenure in Togo: An analysis based on pseudo-panel data
No full textObjectif : Analyser la dynamique du mode d’occupation du logement des ménages au Togo.
Conception/méthodologie/approche : Les estimations sont effectuées à partir d’un pseudo-panel construit sur la base des données QUIBB 2006, 2011 et 2015.
Résultats : Les variables du cycle de vie telles que l’âge, la taille du ménage et les ménages en couple augmentent la probabilité d’être propriétaire du logement. Les ménages dirigés par un homme et les ménages résident en milieu urbain sont plus susceptibles d’être propriétaires de leur logement. Les résultats permettent d’identifier un effet seuil du revenu sur l’accès à la propriété du logement. Les résultats obtenus sur les données de pseudo‑panel sont confortés par l’estimation en coupe transversale effectuée sur les données de l’EHCVM 2018–2019. Les recommandations de politiques économiques sont discutées.
Originalité/valeur : La prise en compte la dynamique dans l’analyse du mode d’occupation résidentielle.Purpose: The aim of this article is to analyse the dynamics of household housing tenure in Togo.
Design/methodology/approach: Estimates made from a pseudo-panel constructed using QUIBB 2006, 2011 and 2015 data.
Findings: Life cycle variables such as age, household size and couple households increase the probability of homeownership. Male-headed households and households in urban areas are more likely to own their home. The results identify a threshold effect of income on access to homeownership. The results obtained on the pseudo-panel data are supported by the cross-sectional estimation carried out on the 2018–2019 EHCVM data. Economic policy recommendations are discussed.
Originality/value: Taking dynamics into account in the analysis of residential occupancy patterns
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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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