Anastasia Alithia Seferiadis

Anastasia Alithia Seferiadis
Institute of Research for Development | IRD

PhD

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Cet article analyse les enjeux de la fabrique de la ville durable dans le contexte des métropoles africaines, en s’intéressant aux aménagements urbains associés à la création d’une nouvelle ligne de bus rapide sur voies réservées ou Bus rapid transit (BRT), à Dakar (Sénégal). Basé sur une recherche-action dans le cadre du projet d’aménagement du qu...
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The article considers the extent to which social entrepreneurship of young women is contributing to sustainable development in Ghana, based on field research conducted between October 2018 and April 2019. Data collection involved a review of the literature and a questionnaire survey of actors within the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Ghana bu...
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While “transdisciplinarity” is a term that is increasingly being used, particularly with regard to its potential to shed light on complex issues as highlighted by sustainability sciences, the contours of its definitions remain unclear. Based on my experience of mobilizing a specific participatory research tool based on photography – photovoice – I...
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Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important outcome in oncology. In our previous work, the specific questionnaire to evaluate the HRQoL for thyroid cancer, the THYCA-QoL, has been translated into French. In this work we aimed to validate the psychometric properties of the French version of the THYCA-QoL questionnaire (F-THYCA...
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Enquête sociologique réalisée dans le cadre de la mission « FASEP quartier bas carbone pour le quartier de la gare Petersen » pilotée par AREP et le CETUD. Plan guide et plan d’action pour le développement d’un modèle de quartier bas carbone. Ce document présente les résultats de l’enquête sociologique menée par les chercheuses du laboratoire PAC...
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This Special Issue focuses on how the private sector, through the design and organization of partnerships that strive to move beyond ‘business as usual’, contributes (or struggles or even fails to contribute) to transform agricultural and rural development towards the achievement of the SDGs. Contributions to this Special Issue are diverse in terms...
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Critical discourse analysis is employed to examine discourses of the private sector within key texts of the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals. Taking a genealogical approach, four discourses are identified in the literature: the dominant, pro‐private sector discourse, showing unconditional support for the private se...
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Between Social Struggle and Cohesion In order to fight gender discrimination, feminist activists and intellectuals have embraced the notion of empowerment. However, following its standardization by development actors including UN agencies, many studies have criticized the risks associated with a neutral, technical, and depoliticized vision that wou...
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Introduction La qualité de vie est un sujet très important dans la prise en charge des cancers de la thyroïde, d’où la nécessité d’un instrument de mesure valide. Le but de cette étude était de traduire en français les 24 items du questionnaire THYCA-QoL utilisé dans les cancers de la thyroïde et ensuite de valider les propriétés psychométriques de...
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This article examines the relationship between social capital and the creation and exchange of knowledge for grassroots development. It applies a framework that originated in developed countries to the experimental phase of a successful entrepreneurial development programme, undertaken between 2006 and 2012 in rural Bangladesh. Although generally a...
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Short-term, linear, externally funded, project-based approaches to complex problems like women's poverty in rural Bangladesh are often unsuccessful. Taking a different approach, this paper documents a transdisciplinary action-research methodology that led to sustainable poverty alleviation for rural Bangladeshi women, gradual changes in gender rela...
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Recognizing that development cannot continue to rely only on charities but also that business are to become socially minded, social entrepreneurship represents one promising economical arrangement enabling to sustainably stimulate development. In particular social entrepreneurs playing the role of change agents in resource-constrained settings repr...
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This article considers how social capital can contribute to poverty alleviation at the micro-level, based on an analysis of the documentary evidence provided by theoretical perspectives and empirical studies. Across countries and contexts, micro-credit, agricultural production and marketing, environmental protection and knowledge networking are lin...
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Networking has been suggested as a tool to address the challenges of social entrepreneurs in severely resource constrained environments. Especially in countries where women do not usually take part in economic activities, like in Bangladesh, stimulating networking and entrepreneurship among women could have a high impact. We use longitudinal data g...
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Olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) are a unique class of glial cells with exceptional translational potential because of their ability to support axon regeneration in the central nervous system. Although OECs are similar in many ways to immature and nonmyelinating Schwann cells, and can myelinate large-diameter axons indistinguishably from myelinat...

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