Child Health and Conflict in Côte d'Ivoire

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camelia Minoiu ◽  
Olga Shemyakina
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Economic Stress ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Impact

We examine the impact of the 2002-07 civil conflict in Cote d'Ivoire on children's health status measured by height-for-age. We use pre- and post-war survey data coupled with information on the location of violent incidents to capture exposure to the conflict of children born during 1997-2007. Our results indicate that children from regions more affected by the conflict suffered significant health setbacks compared with children from less affected regions. Further, household-level victimization -- such as war-related economic stress, health stress, and displacement -- has a large and negative effect on child health in conflict-affected regions.

scholarly journals Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Cote D’Ivoire: A Time Series Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle A. Johnston ◽  
Miguel D. Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Error Correction ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Impact

<p class="ber"><span lang="EN-GB">This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on economic growth in Cote D’Ivoire during the 1975-2011 period. The selection of this African nation is motivated by the rapid inflows it has experienced over the past decade. Using unit root and cointegration analysis, the resulting error correction model (ECM) suggests that gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) has a short-run positive impact on economic growth, while FDI, the repatriation of net income abroad, and periods involving structural breaks, have a negative effect on economic growth in Cote D’Ivoire. In addition, the negative error correction term indicates that deviations from long-run per capita growth during the current year are corrected relatively quickly in the following year, c<em>eteris paribus</em>. The unexpected negative effect of FDI on economic growth may be due to the significant repatriation of profits and dividends the country has experienced in recent years. </span></p>

Pteroteinon laufella.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Cock
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Feeding Damage ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Writing about Zophopetes cerymica (which they considered more common) and P. laufella combined, Mariau and Morin (1974) state that attacks can be on palms of all ages, including young palms recently planted out. At this age, defoliation of the plants delays their subsequent development. Outbreaks on older trees are rarer, and the damage often less important; these attacks are generally localized at the edge of plantations. Mariau et al. (1981) add that the highest fronds are the most often damaged. Herder et al. (1994) refer to regular outbreaks of P. laufella on oil palm in southern Côte d'Ivoire. There are no more substantive reports on the impact of the feeding damage by these hesperiids.

An assessment of the impact of artisanal and commercial gold mining on mercury and methylmercury levels in the environment and fish in Cote d'Ivoire

2019 ◽  
Vol 665 ◽  
pp. 1158-1167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert P. Mason ◽  
Zofia Baumann ◽  
Gunnar Hansen ◽  
Koffi Marcellin Yao ◽  
Mariame Coulibaly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The Political Sources of Religious Identification: Evidence from the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire Border

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. McCauley ◽  
Daniel N. Posner
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
National Level ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Arbitrary Boundary ◽  
Religious Identification ◽  
Côte D'ivoire

Under what conditions does religion become a salient social identity? By measuring religious attachment among the people living astride the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire border in West Africa, an arbitrary boundary that exposes otherwise similar individuals to different political contexts, this article makes a case for the importance of the political environment in affecting the weight that people attach to their religious identities. After ruling out explanations rooted in the proportion of different religious denominations, the degree of secularization and the supply of religious institutions on either side of the border, as well as differences in the degree of religious pluralism at the national level, it highlights the greater exposure of Ivorian respondents to the politicization of religion during Côte d’Ivoire’s recent civil conflict. Methodologically, the study demonstrates the power – and challenges – of exploiting Africa’s arbitrary borders as a source of causal leverage.

scholarly journals Distribution, Pathogenicity, and Interactions of Two Strains of Rice yellow mottle virus in Forested and Savanna Zones of West Africa

Plant Disease ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. N'Guessan ◽  
A. Pinel ◽  
A. A. Sy ◽  
A. Ghesquière ◽  
D. Fargette
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Mottle Virus ◽  
Rice Yellow Mottle Virus ◽  
Yield Losses ◽  
The West ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Yellow Mottle ◽  
The Impact

In Côte d'Ivoire, the S2 strain of Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) predominated in the forested zones, including the “rice belt” to the west, in each of the cropping systems where rice was grown. The S1 strain occurred more frequently in the northern Guinean savanna, and only S1 isolates were found further north in the Sahelo-Soudanian zones. In mixed infection, S2 dominated over S1 both in viral capsid and RNA contents under temperature regimes encompassing those observed in savanna and forested zones of Côte d'Ivoire. There was no evidence of interactions in virus accumulation between the West African strains S1 or S2 with the more distantly related East African strain S4. Field trials emphasized the impact of RYMV, which induced yield losses of 40 to 60% in several widely grown cultivars of Oryza sativa indica and O. sativa japonica. We report the high resistance of the O. indica cv. Gigante under field conditions which was apparent with all the S1 and S2 isolates tested. Responses to RYMV infection of several cultivars were isolate dependent. With most differential cultivars, responses were not strain specific, with the exception of the O. japonica cv. Idsa6, in which the S2 isolates always induced higher yield losses than the S1 isolates.

scholarly journals The Issue of Education in Post-Conflict Reconstruction through the Transitional Justice Process: The Case of Côte D’Ivoire

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. p141
Author(s):  
ASSAMOI Seraphim Desire
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Reconstruction Process ◽  
National Education ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Justice Process ◽  
The Impact

The inclusion of education in post-conflict reconstruction in a transitional justice process goes far beyond physical construction and educational facilities to become part of national educational planning and policy. The issue of education in post-conflict periods is at the level of the national education system in general and of educational policies and strategies in particular. In Côte d’Ivoire, as in other countries emerging from violent conflict, even if the issue of education can be identified in the structural and direct causes of the occurrence of conflicts, it must be recognized that the impact of these conflicts on education remains considerable at different levels. Thus, taking account of its consequences in post-conflict reconstruction in the context of transitional justice is of great interest both for its contribution to economic growth and for the promotion of fundamental human rights and social cohesion. A full involvement of education in the transitional justice process is a real potential for mutual reinforcement in the reconstruction process. Practical synergies between education and transitional justice call for closer collaboration between education and transitional justice actors.

scholarly journals Conflits Fonciers Intercommunautaires Et Fracture Sociale Dans Les Régions Du Guémon Et Du Cavally À L’ouest De La Côte d’Ivoire

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kouassi N’goran François ◽  
N’drin Beugré Anselme
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
The Social ◽  
Land Disputes ◽  
The Impact

The armed conflict that ravaged Côte d'Ivoire after the post-election crisis in november 2010 was sparked by several factors (land disputes, armed uprising of september 2002, tribal militias conquest of state power). In the regions of Guémon and Cavally that formed the epicenter of the war, intercommunal land disputes were instrumental in the outbreak of the war. These tensions between peasants have long caused confusion in the far west forest and contributed in part to the social division between indigenous and migrant communities. This qualitative study based on the phenomenological approach and firstly analyses the dynamics of these communal land disputes before the post-election crisis of 2010. Then, it situates the impact of these conflicts in the social division between communities.

scholarly journals Diversité Et Structure Floristiques Sous Des Peuplements d’Acacias Australiens En Zone Forestière De La Côte d’Ivoire

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (35) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Kouadio Kouassi Richard ◽  
Bakayoko Adama ◽  
N’guessan Kanga Anatole ◽  
Konan Djezou
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Acacia Mangium ◽  
Research Station ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Acacia Species ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
African Flora ◽  
Acacia Crassicarpa ◽  
The Impact

Since thirty years, four Australian Acacias species are introduced and studied in Anguédédou Research station. The station research is located in evergreen forest in the south of Côte d'Ivoire. The objective of the introduction of these species, is to rehabilitate degraded grounds and fallow after growing. The study aims at appreciating the impact of Acacia species on floristic diversity and the regeneration of forest species. For collecting data, we use quadrat method (35 x 50 m and 6 x 6 m).This method permitted the inventory of 212 species on 1.05 ha. Among these species, 1.89 % are Ivorian endemic species and 11.32 % are endemic of West African flora. The flora under the different species of Acacia are relatively diversified and dense. The majority of plant inventoried under Acacia species have small diameters. The highest specific richness average per plots (36 m2) were noted in the 11 years old parcels of Acacia mangium (26.20±2.34) and 27 years old parcels of Acacia auriculaeformis (25.40±2.34) and Acacia crassicarpa (30.60±2.34). The mean values of diameters (dbh ≥ 2.5 cm) fluctuate from 2.94±0.56 cm for the 8 years old stands of Acacia mangium to 8.09±0.56 cm for the 27 years old settlements of Acacia crassicarpa. The results show that leguminous trees can be used for recolonization of the deforested areas in order to rebuild quickly their plant biodiversity.

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