Publications (59)
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Globalisation, economic growth and quality of infrastructure: New insights
Rasmane Ouedraogo, Hamidou Sawadogo; Issa DiandaThe China's Belt and Road Initiative and the EU's Global Gateway projects are based on the idea that high-quality infrastructures are key for countries to benefit from globalisation. This article investigates the economic growth effect of globalisation using a panel of 117 countries over the...
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Farmer education and adoption of sustainable and chemical pesticide-free agriculture: evidence from rural Burkina Faso
MARE Tobignaré Florent; ZAHONOGO Pam; SAVADOGO KimseyingaPurpose – In a context where the promotion of a more sustainable agriculture is clearly aimed at, the
paradoxical combination of sustainable agricultural practices (SAP) with chemical pesticides use instead of
biological pest management techniques is recurrent in Sub-Saharan African (SSA)...
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Zones économiques spéciales et développement territorial du Burkina Faso
Ouédraogo Rasbawendé Jean, Yonli Taladi NarcisseL’économie burkinabè est caractérisée par une balance commerciale structurellement déficitaire. Les grands produits
d’exportation sont l’or, le coton, les noix de cajou, le zinc et les graines de sésame. Dans le but d’équilibrer les importations et les exportations, des actions...
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Relationship between FDI and Private Domestic Investment: Similar Role of Natural Resources Versus Institutional Quality
KINDA Mohamed Tidjane, BAGAGA Mamoudou, CONTE FacinetThe objective of this research is to analyze whether there is a spillover or crowding out effect of FDI on domestic private investment in 40 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2003 to 2020. Thus, a dynamic panel model estimated by the GMM-system method is used. We find a spillover...
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Effects of Insecurity on Inflation in Burkina Faso
Abdoulaye SIRY, Inoussa TRAOREThe price increase has been exacerbated in Burkina Faso compared to other member countries of the West African
Economic and Monetary Union. According to the existing literature, plausible explanations for this galloping inflation
include the recent health crisis and the economic policy...
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Sustainable dietary weight loss intervention and its effects on cardiometabolic parameters and greenhouse gas emissions: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial with overweight and obese adults in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Alina Herrmann 1 , Anais Gonnet 1 , Roche Modeste Millogo 2 , Wendmintiri Jeanne d'Arc Kabré , Tenin Rosine Beremwidougou , Issa Coulibaly , Idrissa Ouili , Souleymane Zoromé , Konstantin Weil , Hannah Fuelbert , Abdramane Soura , Ina DanquahThe global obesity epidemic and its adverse health effects have reached sub-Saharan Africa. In some urban settings, like Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, up to 43% of the adult population are overweight or obese. At the same time, modernised food systems are responsible for 26% of global...
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Transferts de migrants, sécurité alimentaire et variabilité climatique : le cas du Burkina Faso
Tebkieta Alexandra Tapsoba, Pascale Motel-Combes, Jean Louis Combes.Cet article évalue l’impact des transferts des migrants et de la variabilité climatique sur la sécurité alimentaire des ménages au Burkina Faso. Il s’appuie sur une base de données originale construite à partir de l’enquête 2009 de la Banque mondiale sur les migrations et les...
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Sustainability and Wealth of Rural Households: Measurement and Inequality Analysis
Soumaïla Gansonré, Ramatu M. Al-Hassan, Idrissa M. Ouédraogo, George T. Kwadzo, Edward E. OnumahA small but growing literature is linking well-being with the value of assets, measured comprehensively. This measure, called comprehensive wealth, has appeared as a leading economic indicator of sustainability by reflecting the potential of future well-being. Despite the concerns of...
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Education puzzle, financial inclusion, and energy substitution: Growth Scales
Abdoulganiour Almame TintaHuman capital is at the heart of new theories of growth through the intrinsic role of education. Economic growth, also called income effect or scale effect, is a crucial mechanism for education’s influence on energy. In line with Romer, maintaining increasing returns to scale is the result of...
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Energy substitution in Africa: Cross-regional differentiation effects
Abdoulganiour Almame TintaAlthough Africa has immense non-renewable energy resources and an unexplored renewable energy potential, this region is relatively less studied with regard to energy substitution. Using a non-linear modeling through the PSTR technique in 43 countries during the period 2005–2021, this paper...
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Are more educated people more likely to engage in terrorism
Abdoulganiour Almame TintaThis study examines the connection between education and terrorism. By using information provided by the police and the army during the various terrorist assaults in the Sahel region and the filtering method, we build a micro data set from 2019 to 2021 from interventions in Burkina Faso, Niger,...
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Product market competition and management quality among small and medium-sized enterprises: Evidence from Burkina Faso
Soumaïla Gansonré, Sugrinoma Aristide OuédraogoWe examine how management quality is related to product market competition when firms are managed by their founders instead of hired managers. While the relationship between competition and managerial incentives is mostly found to be ambiguous in theory, testing it empirically has been...
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Résilience des entreprises guinéennes face à la Covid-19
BAGAGA Mamoudou, Hamidou BARRY, Mohamed Tidjane KINDACe papier identifie et analyse les déterminants de la résilience des entreprises guinéennes face à la maladie à Corona Virus (COVID-19) en appliquant les modèles Probit/Logit, Poisson et Binomial négatif sur une version actualisée des données de l’enquête sur les entreprises, menée...
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The micro determinants of financial inclusion and financial resilience in Africa
Abdoulganiour Almame Tinta, Idrissa Mohamed Ouédraogo, Ramatu Mahama Al-HassanThis study analyzes the factors influencing financial inclusion and financial resilience in Africa. Using national surveys of 40 African countries and the doing business database, multiple models are performed to analyze financial inclusion drivers. The results show that individual...
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Factors affecting sustainable agricultural intensification in Burkina Faso
MARE Tobignaré Florent; ZAHONOGO Pam; SAVADOGO KimseyingaFarmers in Burkina Faso, as in Sub-Saharan Africa overall, face multiple combined difficulties like water stress, continued land degradation and low soil fertility due to climate change effects. To simultaneously overcome these difficulties, where agriculture accounts for more than a third of...