It is open to question whether the intensified worldwide competition for FDI has reduced its traditionally strong concentration in a few large and relative
Ada Igonoh was the physician who pronounced 40-year-old Patrick Sawyer dead. Four days after he was admitted to First Consultants Medical Centre, a hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, she found him collapsed and unresponsive in his private bathroom. That day, no one was allowed near the door ...
Dominant forces of globalization are changing. For a couple of years, the world environment has become “uncontrollable” as the notion of “VUCA” and “deglobalization” is gaining popularity as a term to cover various dimensions. The role of developed countries in the global economy has gradual...
In the space of a few months, hevisitedMali, Burkina Faso, Niger, the Central African Republic, and Libya. This pronounced his rise as a kingpin of the ostensible ‘Africa Corps’ affiliated with the Defense Ministry. Even if it is too early to tell whether such plans reflect the more so...
Data were collected in four countries in East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) (Kristjanson et al., 2012) and five in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal). The household survey and village studies are components of the baseline definition activities of the ...
This is substantially less than the widely quoted figures of 60–80%. Consistent with FAO (2011), wide variation is recorded across (and within) countries, with the country-level shares ranging from 56% in Uganda to only 24% in Niger. For Nigeria as a whole, the share is 37%; it is...
Farmer-managed assisted regeneration, where trees are pruned, coppiced, and protected by farmers, has been successfully implemented on a large scale in Niger and other Sahelian countries [16]. In Burkina Faso, the association tiipaalga, involved in this study, has promoted a household-based ...