scholarly journals Liquidity of a Stock Exchange, Between Investor Behavior and Scarcity of Securities: The Case Study of the West African Regional Stock Exchange

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 389
Author(s):  
Pourakin Djarius Dieudonné Bama ◽  
Balibié Serge Auguste Bayala
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
West African ◽  
Investor Behavior ◽  
The West

Assessing Bypassed Hydrocarbons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Oifoghe ◽  
Nora Alarcon ◽  
Lucrecia Grigoletto
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Reservoir Characterization ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
West African ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Present Case Study ◽  
Novel Model

Abstract Hydrocarbons are bypassed in known fields. This is due to reservoir heterogeneities, complex lithology, and limitations of existing technology. This paper seeks to identify the scenarios of bypassed hydrocarbons, and to highlight how advances in reservoir characterization techniques have improved assessment of bypassed hydrocarbons. The present case study is an evaluation well drilled on the continental shelf, off the West African Coastline. The targeted thin-bedded reservoir sands are of Cenomanian age. Some technologies for assessing bypassed hydrocarbon include Gamma Ray Spectralog and Thin Bed Analysis. NMR is important for accurate reservoir characterization of thinly bedded reservoirs. The measured NMR porosity was 15pu, which is 42% of the actual porosity. Using the measured values gave a permeability of 5.3mD as against the actual permeability of 234mD. The novel model presented in this paper increased the porosity by 58% and the permeability by 4315%.

scholarly journals Doing Theatre: Theatre Pedagogy through the Folktale

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-91
Author(s):  
Jean Small
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Memory ◽  
West African ◽  
French Language ◽  
The West ◽  
Repeated Interaction ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Theatre Pedagogy ◽  
The Brain

Theatre Pedagogy holds that cognition is body-based. Through performance the body’s unconscious procedural memory learns. This information learned through repeated interaction with the world is transmitted to the brain where it becomes conscious knowledge. Theatre Pedagogy in this case study is based on the implementation of a Caribbean cultural art form in performance, in order to teach Francophone language and literature at the postsecondary level in Jamaica. This paper describes the experience of “doing theatre” with seven university students to learn the French language and literature based on an adaptation of two of Birago Diop’s folktales. In the process of learning and performing the plays, the students also understood some of the West African cultural universals of life which cut across the lives of learners in their own and in foreign cultural contexts.

scholarly journals The Environmental Effects of Policy Change in the West African Savanna: Resettlement, Structural Adjustment and Conservation in Western Mali

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolores Koenig ◽  
Tiéman Diarra
Keyword(s):  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Study Data ◽  
West African ◽  
The West ◽  
African Savanna ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
River Basin Development ◽  
Case Study Data ◽  
Simultaneous Implementation

This article broadens analytic perspectives on the effects of government interventionsby looking at the interaction of two distinct but simultaneous policy initiatives: involuntary resettlement and structural adjustment. Case study data from the Bafing valley in Mali show that simultaneous implementation of these two initiatives reinforced the economic growth of the zone but increased negative environmental effects.Key Words: Mali, resettlement, structural adjustment, sahel, environmental degradation, economic development, river basin development, privatization, liberalization.

scholarly journals Dry cyclogenesis and dust mobilization in the intertropical discontinuity of the West African Monsoon: A case study

2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (D5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Bou Karam ◽  
Cyrille Flamant ◽  
Pierre Tulet ◽  
Martin C. Todd ◽  
Jacques Pelon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West African Monsoon ◽  
West African ◽  
The West ◽  
African Monsoon ◽  
Dust Mobilization

scholarly journals Portfolio Management on an Emerging Market: Dynamic Strategy or Passive Strategy?

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Pourakin Djarius Dieudonné BAMA
Keyword(s):  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
West African ◽  
The West ◽  
Price Fluctuations ◽  
Dynamic Strategy ◽  
Real Market ◽  
Passive Strategy

At first glance, the portfolio management strategy seems like a resolved question, but practitioners continue to perform poorly on the stock markets. This paper highlights the portfolio management in the specific case of the West African regional stock exchange, regarding two management strategies. These are dynamic strategy and passive strategy. Within this framework, we will compare an investor who is constantly betting on price fluctuations with another who is betting on dividends. Its originality lies in the approach that is used. Through a simulation methodology based on real market data, the main results indicate that an emerging market is a savings market more than it is a speculation market. Besides, other results indicate that, one can predict on the West African regional stock exchange tomorrow’s prices from today’s prices. This does not mean that investors are making good predictions because the predictability of prices is due to the absence of changes in asset prices on the market. We draw the conclusion that it is difficult for one speculator to outperform the other. A rational investor would benefit from anticipating the distribution of dividends rather than focusing on price fluctuations. Consequently, the buy and hold strategy is therefore the best to be rewarded in an emerging market. Nonetheless, this practice can lead to a decline in liquidity.

scholarly journals Citizens, dependents, sons of the soil

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Lees ◽  
Luisa Enria
Keyword(s):  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Vaccine Trial ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
West African ◽  
The West ◽  
Biomedical Technologies ◽  
The Impact

The impact of biomedicine and biomedical technologies on identity and sociality has long been the focus of medical anthropology. In this article we revisit these debates in a discussion of how unprecedented encounters with biomedicine during the West African Ebola outbreak have featured in Sierra Leoneans’ understandings of citizenship and belonging, using the case study of an Ebola vaccine trial taking place in Kambia District (EBOVAC Salone). Analysing our ethnographic material in conversation with a historical analysis of notions of belonging and citizenship, we show how participation in a vaccine trial in a moment of crisis allowed people to tell stories about themselves as political subjects and to situate themselves in a conversation about the nature of citizenship that both pre-dates and post-dates the epidemic.

scholarly journals Agents of urban (in)security: contextualising the banning of political vigilantism in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s11 ◽  
pp. 19-39
Author(s):  
Mariam Bjarnesen
Keyword(s):  
Public Trust ◽  
West African ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
The West ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
African Nation ◽  
State Security ◽  
Political Events

In 2019, a new law banning vigilantism was adopted in the West African nation of Ghana. The law followed years of debate and violent incidents related to the presence of informally mobilised so-called �political vigilantes�, charged with providing security during political events. At first glance, the ridding of such state-competing elements through legal measures appears unproblematic and in line with democratic values. However, as this article argues, by drawing on the case study of Ghana and the pre-2020 election phase, such legal actions against non-state actors can be problematic and, in the worst case, constitute a threat to security and stability if public trust in authorities and formal state security providers is not sufficiently solid. Grounded in a broader discussion on security in fragile contexts and urban centres on the African continent, this article analyses the consequences of banning vigilantism where formal security provision is weak or not fully trusted.

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