Effective and practical control of reproduction is the major constraint in tilapia culture. Uncontrolled reproduction can result in less than 25% of the adults being greater than 250 g after a six-month culture period, with the majority of the population being progeny less than 10 g each. Intraspecific breeding programs have been developed to exploit the sex inheritance mechanism in the tilapia...

This study leverages mobile phone data to analyze human mobility patterns in developing countries, especially in comparison to more industrialized countries. Developing regions, such as the Ivory Coast, are marked by a number of factors that may influence mobility, such as less infrastructural coverage and maturity, less economic resources and stability, and in some cases, more cultural and lan...

Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent sustained growth in factor productivity. To compare the contribution of these four human capital inputs, an expanded specification of the wage function is estimated from household (LSMS) surveys of The Ivory Coast and Ghana. Specification tests assess whether the human capital inputs ...

Good health is crucial for human and economic development. In particular poor health in childhood seems to be of utmost concern since it causes irreversible damage and have implications later in life. Recent research suggests globalization is a strong force affecting adult and child health outcomes. Yet, there is much unexplained variation with respect to the globalization effect on child healt...

This paper explores the development of Cote d’Ivoire’s formal private sector in the years preceding and immediately following the political crises in 1999-2000 and the Civil War that began in 2002. Notably, during the conflict politicians exploited and ex­ acerbated anti-foreigner sentiments, tolerating increasing number of attacks targeting foreigners. We use a unique database from the Registr...

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS or NOS3) is the main responsible for nitric oxide (NO) production in vascular system and different polymorphisms have been identified in epidemiological studies. Trying to test the eNOS genetic variation in general populations we studied the 27-bp VNTR in intron 4 and G894T substitution in exon 7 markers in 6 Western Mediterranean populations (3 from Iber...

Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent sustained growth in factor productivity. To compare the contribution of these four human capital inputs, an expanded specification of the wage function is estimated from household (LSMS) surveys of the Ivory Coast and Ghana. Specification tests assess whether the human capital inputs ...

In many developing countries (e.g., Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria), half the population lives in rural locations, where accessibility to school materials, medical supplies, mosquito nets, and clothing is restricted [2]. Distribution to these locations typically requires direct road transport, which is time consuming and requires bulk volume to be cost effective. In response to these limi...

The spread of HIV in Ivory Coast is examined to evaluate Ivorian perspectives’ on which factors explicate the rising of HIV. This study reports the findings of an in-depth mixed method study with 39 teachers, 63 sixth grade students, eight school administrators, and 20 community elders. The study found that factors such as lack of condom distribution in school, high rates of sexual partner chan...

Between 1985 and 1988, the cestodes of 1,252 wild birds (174 species) from the Ivory Coast (West Africa) were collected and studied. Of these birds, 15.7% were parasitized by an estimated 95-100 species of tapeworms, 55 of them having been determined or described. Most of the parasites were found in new hosts, and numerous new geographical records are reported. In general, both the prevalence a...