European Conference on African Studies

ECAS 2009
3^rd European Conference on African Studies

Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

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Panel 96: Towards a harmonization of urban statistical indicators in Western Africa (Francois Moriconi-Ebrard)

Panel Organiser: Francois Moriconi-Ebrard

The panel intend to present the main results of a new study about urbanization growth in Western Africa from 1950 to 2020. This study was directed by the Laboratory SEDET (University of Paris-Diderot/CNRS) and granted both by the french National Research Agency (ANR) and Agency For Development (AFD). See :http://www.afd.fr/jahia/Jahia/lang/fr/home/NotesetEtudes/pid/5568 (English translation available soon). Disciplines : Geography, History, Demography, Socio-Economy (6 persons).

Accepted Abstracts

Dominique Harre - Abstract

Urban-ruraldemarcation in West-Africa : empirical measurements and urbanization from below

Dominique Harre - Full Paper

Dominique Harre and Cathy Chatel - Abstract

The urban/rural statistical threshold : a statistical approach

Frederic Giraut - Abstract

The South-African challenges of building a territorial and urban geohistorical database: lessons for the harmonization of urban statistical indicators in Africa

Ousmane Thiam and Loic Grasland - Abstract

Un siecle de peuplement urbain en Afrique de l'Ouest Modelisation centrographique

Ousmane Thiam and Loic Grasland - Full Paper

Valérie Golaz - Abstract

Acces aux donnees censitaires et harmonisation des concepts demographiques en Afrique de l'Ouest : un enjeu majeur pour les chercheurs et les instituts de statistiques