Stereotypes, prejudices and exclusion of Fulani pastoralists in Ghana

Methodological Issues in Predicting Discrimination from Attitudes, Prejudices, and Stereotypes

Shifting livelihood strategies in northern Nigeria - extensified production and livelihood diversification amongst Fulani pastoralists

This paper presents an in-depth investigation of the livelihood strategies of Fulani pastoralists in north central Nigeria. Results show a diversified crop-livestock system aimed at spreading risk and reducing cattle offtake, adapted to natural resource competition and insecurity by extensification, with further diversification into off-farm activities to spread risk, increase livelihood securi...

Challenging gender stereotypes: resistance and exclusion.

The likelihood of resisting gender-stereotypic peer group norms, along with expectations about personal resistance, was investigated in 9- to 10-year-olds and 13- to 14-year-olds (N = 292). Participants were told about a stereotype conforming group (boys playing football; girls doing ballet) and a stereotype nonconforming group (boys doing ballet; girls playing football). Contrary to expectatio...

Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana

Mutual insurance has been shown, theoretically and empirically, to be incomplete and limited by asymmetric information and lack of enforcement mechanisms. While some research has shown that networks based on kinship, neighbourhood and ethnicity may provide a locus of insurance and thus a way of overcoming these problems, these studies are not fine enough to predict the inclusion and exclusion o...

synthesis of sulfides from alcohols and thiols in solvent-freeconditions and deoxygenation of sulfoxides

کاتالیست یک سنتز جدید برای تیواترها توصیف شده است. واکنش الکل ها با آریل، هتروآریل و آلکیل تیو ل ها درحضور 1،3،5- تری آزو- 2،4،6- تری فسفرین-2،2،4،4،6،6 هگزاکلراید ((tapc به عنوان یک کاتالیست موُثر، بازده های خوب تا عالی از تیواترها را حاصل می کند. علاوه براین، واکنش تحت شرایط بدون فلز و بدون حلال پیش می رود، بنابراین یک مکمل جالب برای روش های شناخته شده سنتز تیواترها ارائه می دهد. یک مکانیسم ا...