(Working Papers SES ; 518)
Spatial isolation is considered as one of the main determinants of poverty. Therefore, many transport investments are undertaken with a stated objective of poverty reduction. In our paper, we evaluate a Tanzanian program that rehabilitated 2500km of major roads between 2008 and 2013. We deal with endogenous placement issues with a household fixed-effect strategy combined with a propensity score...
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In: Cells, 2019, vol. 8, no. 8, p. 862
Liquid biopsy technologies have the potential to transform cancer patient management as it others non- invasive diagnosis and real-time monitoring of disease progression and treatment responses. The use of liquid biopsy for non-invasive cancer diagnosis can have pivotal importance for the African continent where access to medical infrastructures is limited, as it eliminates the need for...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2019 ; 2019COM003.
This dissertation focuses on the online communication and representation of a digital city in Africa: Douala, the largest city of the Republic of Cameroon. In particular, it explores the evolution of the web-based reproduction (Couclelis, 2004) of Douala, the largest city of the Republic of Cameroon, from a chronological, spatial and representational perspective, with the purpose of...
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2019, vol. 1, no. 4, p. Article: 1.4
For more than a decade scholars mostly from economy and development studies have described the rise of a newly emerging ‘middle class’ in the Global South including Africa. This has led to a ‘middle class narrative’ with the ‘middle class’ as the backbone of economic and democratic development. Especially with regard to the stability of the position of the people in the ‘middle’,...
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2019, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Article: 1.1
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In: LaboratoriumsMedizin, 2016, vol. 40, no. 2, p. 133-139
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In: Oecologia, 2014, vol. 174, no. 2, p. 459-469
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In: Brittonia, 2011, vol. 63, no. 2, p. 233-244
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In: Biodiversity and Conservation, 2013, vol. 22, no. 3, p. 755-772
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In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 2007, vol. 81, no. 4, p. 406-415
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