Publications (192)
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Assessing Chinese “Dual” Cooptation of Western and Emerging Powers in the AIIB in an Era of Contested Multilateralism.
Emel Parlar Dal et Samiratou Dipama
Why and how do emerging powers, namely China, engage in cooptation of established powers and emerging peers through the creation of alternative competitive institutions? This paper endeavors to evaluate China’s cooptation as a response to increasing great power competition in this era of waned multilateralism. Basing the analysis on the case o(...)
cooptation, China, contested multilateralism, International institutions, security, AIIB
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Perception des risques de l’utilisation pédagogique de l’intelligence artificielle dans l’enseignement supérieur
SIA Benjamin
Cette étude examine l’utilisation de l’Intelligence Artificielle (IA) par les enseignants-chercheurs ainsi que les risques pédagogiques perçus liés à son adoption. Les résultats obtenus de l’analyse des données quantitatives recueillies auprès d’enseignants-chercheurs révèlent, d’une part, un recours timide à l'IA pour les travaux de recherche(...)
intelligence artificielle (IA), risques pédagogiques, enseignement supérieur
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Modeling the Combined Dynamics of a Fanatical Insurgency and Narcoterrorism in the Sahel
Mathieu Romaric POODA, Yacouba SIMPORE, Oumar TRAORE
This study presents an innovative analysis of the complex interplay between narcoterrorism and fanatical insurgency in the Sahel region of Africa. This study adopts a compartmental mathematical modeling approach to understand how these two phenomena influence each other and how they evolve. By making some data estimations and simulations, we e(...)
ideological terrorism, fanatical behavior, fanatical insurgency, nacoterrorism, local and global asymptotic stability, global threshold
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Energy Poverty and Women's Health: Evidence From Burkina Faso
EugèneDimaviyaCompaore, PamZahonogo, TitoNestorTiehi
Although reducing energy poverty has become a priority for the international community, the link between energy poverty and women's health has received little attention despite its potential. Using data from the Continuous Multisectoral Survey (EMC), this article analyses the effect of energy poverty on women's health within a multidimensional(...)
healthstatus|household|instrumentalvariables|multidimensionalenergypoverty
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Endogenous Perceptions of the Use of Parkia Biglobosa Pods in Weed Control in the South Sudanian Zone of Burkina Faso
Sourabié Soumaïla , Thiombiano Célestin , Tahirou Moussa Seydou , Ouattara Ya Sadia Rabiatou
Introduction: Alternative biological weed control methods in Burkina Faso are poorly understood and documented. Although some traditional control methods using plant organs exist, their adoption by populations remains very limited due to various challenges. This study aimed at identifying the use patterns of Parkia biglobosa pods, the
populat(...)
allelopathy, weed, pod, agroecosystem, cereals, biological control
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The Bwan in Dassa: Description of a Traditional Mechanism for Reparation and Prevention of Criminal Conflicts (Burkina Faso)
Bacyé Yisso Fidèle
So-called traditional communities have not always enjoyed peaceful inter-individual relations. They experience opposition and conflict, which sometimes lead to an imbalance in social cohesion. Since human relations cannot exist without the expression of power relationships and conflicts, regulatory systems are implemented and collectively adop(...)
Mechanism, Criminology, Sociology, Philosophy, Epistemology
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ASSESSING FERTILIZATION AND PLANTING DENSITY EFFECTS ON OF MUNG BEAN (VIGNA ASSESSING FERTILIZATION AND PLANTING DENSITY EFFECTS ON AGRONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF MUNG BEAN (VIGNA RADIATA (L.) WILCZEK) IN BURKINA FASO
Célestin Thiombiano, Soumaïla Sourabié, Kiswendsida David Baudouin Zoundi and Batieno T Benoit Joseph
Crop agronomic performance are mostly related to the agricultural practices used for production. Study was carried out at Kamboinsin, in Burkina Faso, with aim to evaluating the effects the fertilization and planting density on mung bean (Vigna radiata) agronomic performance. The fertilization was at three (03) levels of treatment (control, NP(...)
Mung Bean, Fertilization, Planting Density, Genotype, Yield.
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Legitimizing regimes and legalizing self-defense groups: the case of Burkina Faso’s VDPs
Abdoul Karim Saidou et Lauren Honig
The formalisation of informal security-providers has important consequences for citizenship, the rule of law, and human rights. We examine these policies in Burkina Faso, where formalisation has led to concerns about vigilante justice and ethnic targeting. Although African governments' reliance on informal security provision is well-documented(...)
Legitimacy; formalisation; authoritarianism; self-defence groups; Burkina Faso
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Etude géospatiale de l’évolution du site minier artisanal de Bouda, ceinture de Kaya-Goren (Burkina Faso, Craton Ouest Africain)
Rashid Ali Isdine DAO
L’exploitation minière artisanale est un secteur clé de l’économie du Burkina Faso. Cette activité, convenablement réglementée, reste essentielle pour la population, malgré les problèmes environnementaux et les problèmes de sécurité que vit le pays depuis 2015. L’exploration de nouvelles zones pour l’exploitation de l’or dans ces conditions es(...)
Burkina Faso, Bouda, Ceinture de Kaya-Goren, Exploitation Minière Artisanale, Exploration, Géophysique, Landsat, Télédétection.
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Saisir l’ordre constitutionnel par les instruments : la politique de démocratie de la CEDEAO
Abdoul Karim Saidou
Cet article propose une analyse de la crise de l’ordre constitutionnel instauré par la Communauté économique des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO). La démarche théorique et conceptuelle est inspirée de la sociologie de l’action publique et aborde l’ordre constitutionnel par le prisme des instruments d’action publique. En mettant la focale(...)
Ordre constitutionnel, instruments, CEDEAO, démocratie
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Femmes et Pouvoir : Analyse socio-anthropologique des formes d’engagement politique des femmes au Burkina Faso
Ousmane Zoungrana, B. Ouedraogo
In Burkina Faso, six decades after independence, women are still under-represented in the political and decision-making spheres. In fact, out of one hundred and twenty-seven seats in parliament in 2015, there were 18 women, a rate of 14%. This rate remains below the 30% threshold recommended by law. Parliament remains a largely male-dominated(...)
Women Power, Political commitment, society, Burkina Faso
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Effets de la tenure foncière sur les rendements agricoles chez les femmes au Burkina Faso : cas de l’arachide et du voandzou
Goni Zougouri, Tibi Didier Zoungrana
Cette recherche examine les effets de la tenure foncière sur les rendements de l'arachide et du voandzou cultivés par des femmes au Burkina Faso, en se basant sur l'analyse de 5 603 parcelles réparties sur les 13 régions du pays durant la campagne agricole 2018/2019. Les données sont traitées à l’aide de la méthode récursive CMP (Conditionnell(...)
Tenure foncière, femmes, fertilisants, rendement agricole, méthode CMP.
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Determinants of the West African economic and monetary union's banks going-public decision: empirical evidence on the role of macroeconomic factors
Daouda Lawa Tan TOE, Mamadou TOE
This research seeks to investigate the determinants of the going public decision in the banking industry by looking at the macroeconomic factors. For this purpose, we resort to a vector error correction model (VECM). Empirical findings indicate that in the West African Economic and Monetary Union, inflation, interest rate and stock market inde(...)
go public; macroeconomic factors; WAEMU; banks; BRVM
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Effects of Political Instability on Investment Efficiency in WAEMU Countries: An Empirical Analysis
Ahandi Vincent Lompo and Achille Augustin Diendere
This paper analyzes the effects of political instability on the efficiency of domestic investment in West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries.
To this end, the empirical model is estimated using double least squares (2SLS) technique and panel data. The analysis covers the period 2003 to 2023. The study
differs from other pr(...)
Investment efficiency, Political instability, WAEMU, 2SLS method
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Understanding public policy through the lens of political regimes: the case of episodic change in agriculture policy in Burkina Faso (1983–2022)
R. Hyacinthe Naré et Abdoul Karim Saidou
This article addresses episodic change in agriculture policy in Burkina Faso over time. It
aims to explain radical changes to this policy under the presidencies of T. Sankara (1983–
1987) and B. Compaoré (1987–2014), as well as incremental changes to it under the
administrations of M. Kafando (2014–2015) and R. Kaboré (2015–2022). The data(...)
Burkina Faso, agroecology, policy change, agricultural policy, political regime