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Africa has always been presented as a unique case in international relations theory. The imbalances inherited from colonization and the various challenges African nations faced following their independence coupled with weak institutional capability contributed to make the region…

The identification of primary climate controls and their utilization in developing statistical models for precipitation forecast in northern Nigeria is the main goal of this research. The input consists of time series of seven ocean-atmospheric variables with 34 years of data, n…

The potential of NIRS fecal profiling to predict crude protein (CP) and digestible organic matter (DOM) in the diet of free-ranging sheep and cattle, and condensed tannins in the diet of sheep, in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), was examined. The calibration sets comprised of samples …

This dissertation examines the factors that contributed to the increase of number of internal wars in Sub Saharan Africa during the 1990s. It examines relationship between governance and internal wars in the region. Despite the fact that many of the ingredients e.g. economic dec…

The per capita food output for domestic consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa is in crisis. A debate now rages in the political economy of the region's agricultural development over the following questions: Are the indigenous land tenure systems the root cause of the crisis? Is land…

Soil fertility decline has been said to constitute a major cause of low agricultural productivity and a threat to food security in SubSaharan Africa, especially in its ecologically fragile regions. Already nutrient-poor soils, subjected to continuous cropping, wind and water ero…

Development assistance is one of the most important tools in any country's foreign policy. Saudi Arabia's multilateral and bilateral development and cultural assistance to sub-Saharan African countries is a faith-based assistance model to be emulated by other Muslim countries. T…

The problems, policies, and prospects of urban transport have assumed added urgency due to the pressing need in Senegal and The Gambia to improve both its supply and standard. The inadequacies and inefficiencies of urban transportation services are major barriers to socioeconomi…

The literature investigating the relationship between stock market returns and inflation is long and has produced diverse findings. This thesis examines the nature of stock–inflation relations in Sub-Saharan countries whose stock markets were established before 1992. Evidence in…

Depuis quelques décennies, on observe un regain d'intérêt pour les analyses de la croissance économique, des phénomènes de rattrapage, de convergence et de divergence. Entre 1965 et 1985, les économies de l'Asie de l'Est et du Sud-Est (AESE) ont enregistré une croissance trois f…

This dissertation looks at the relationship between agro-food markets, social networks and welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economists have long recognized the importance of information for the efficient functioning of markets. Due to limited or costly information, excess price di…

This dissertation explores two important development policies, the introduction of microcredit, and access to free anti-retroviral medications, including the causal impact of providing access through a randomized control trial, and exploring expectations of policy outcomes throu…

This dissertation is a collection of three essays exploring micro relations between components of economic development, health, and social protection in rural Malawi, a developing country in sub-Saharan Africa with high poverty and a mature HIV/AIDS epidemic. The unique individu…

For many years, Africa was referred to as the Dark Continent, because many Westerners could not look into the lifestyles and mysteries that might exist there. Superstitions about Africans were common, causing many outsiders to think of Africans as being somewhat less than human.…

Though the AIDS epidemic has been spreading through sub-Saharan Africa for over 20 years, HIV prevalence rates in West Africa have augmented much more slowly than rates in East and Southern Africa. This research explores the question of whether differences in HIV prevalence rate…

For decades, corruption has become a major developmental problem in Sub-Saharan Africa. Whether it is looked at from the perspective of the traditional era, or the colonial era, or the independence and post-independence eras, corruption has indeed affected the lives of all Afric…

Africa has often been perceived as a confluence of tension and conflict and the recent upheavals in Sub-Saharan Africa have done little to help this perception. The rising wave of ethnic and religious violence continues to drain the continent of its material and human resources,…

Entrenched between contradictory traditional and western values, francophone African Muslims have adopted opposing attitudes and customs. They take refuge in their secular practices that predate both Islam and the Coran, which they have misread, in order to justify polar interpr…

Many theorists have argued that Western Christianity and Islam affect political culture in different ways, and that Western Christianity is more conducive to the rise of a democratic political culture than Islam. In this dissertation, I argue that the difference between Christia…