Burkina Faso

Vulnerability Profile of Burkina Faso

Antibiotic resistance in Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is one of the Subsaharan African nations. No national services for monitoring of antibiotic resistance are available, so the number of reports of resistance patterns among hospital pathogens are inconsistent. In order to evaluate antibiotic resistance, a total of 1998 valuable microrganisms were analysed during 2000 at the Medical Centre St. Camille of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's c...

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphisms in Burkina Faso.

In Burkina Faso, the levels of plasma homocysteine (Hcy) are lower and the methionine loading tests suggest a more effective Hcy metabolism [1,2]. We found a relevant difference in the allele frequencies of C677T: T 7.7% in the young and 3.3% in old subjects respectively (see Table 1). Frequencies of C677T genotypes in old and young individuals were in Hardy Weinberg equilibrium (HWE). The diff...

Spatial inequalities explained: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the sources of spatial disparities in incomes among households in Burkina Faso. We show that spatial dispa...

Burkina Faso: Shipping around the Malthusian Trap

− Burkina Faso has experienced quite significant aggregate growth over the past two decades, but the economy has done a bad job in transforming that growth into poverty reduction. The key bottleneck preventing people from escaping poverty in large numbers is the still very high population growth in conjunction with the absence of major technological change in agriculture and any significant str...