Three trials have been set up in Côte d’Ivoire to analyse the growth of six-year-old microcuttings produced from seedlings, 45-month-old somatic embryos of PB 260 and PR 107 and 31-month-old microcuttings of IRCA 18. The results show that Hevea in vitro plantlets produced by somatic embryogenesis or microcutting consistently grow as well as if not better than conventional budded plants. The dif...

Guébie, a Kru language spoken in Côte d’Ivoire, is currently doubly classified within Eastern Kru according to Ethnologue (Lewis et al. 2013). It is listed as a dialect of two distinct subgroups, Bété and Dida. This double classification is clearly problematic, and this paper provides the initial work towards addressing the correct classification of the language. Here I compare the phonological...

This paper revisits the contested issue of the impact of agricultural extension on farm productivity. Often studies in this …eld su¤er from a bias either due to self-selection of the best farmers for the extension services or to endogenous placement of the programme. The panel dataset collected by ANADERand the nature of the extension programme put into operation in Côte d’Ivoire between 1997 a...

The main goal of this work is to provide an analysis methodology for assessment of water scarcity problems based on supply and demand. To this end, we must first determine what can be considered as supply and demand in the water scarcity problem. Although some variables involved are physical, economical or demographical, in our approach social factors are also included. This leads us to objecti...

It is an assumption of most models of syntax that phonological features are not present during syntactic derivations, thus cannot influence syntactic structure (cf. Pullum & Zwicky 1986, 1988 ). A process that might challenge such an assumption is phonologically determined agreement, where phonological and not syntactic or semantic features agree across elements in a clause or discourse. Such a...

A little personal history first. In 1971, at the invitation of la Commission française pour l’unesco, I took part in a colloque at the Centre national d'études spatiales on the use of satellites for education. We or some in the colloque were expecting them to revolutionise education. A few years later, instructional television, pioneered at the Ecole Normale St Cloud and further afield in Niger...

We investigate the relation between mobile phone usage and regional economic development in Côte d’Ivoire. Most previous studies on mobile phone communication focused on developed countries. Their results may be difficult to extend to developing countries. Here we study mobile communication in a developing nation, namely Côte d’Ivoire. Our main motivations are, first, that the effects of inform...

This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1990s, allowing the in-depth analysis of simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of the distribution of income: a change in the remuneration rates of observed and unobserved earnings determinants, a change in occupational preferences, and a change in the...

This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1990s, allowing to disentangle the simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of the distribution of income: a change in the remuneration rates of the observed and unobserved earnings determinants, a change in the occupational preferences, and a change in t...