Victoire Girard is a research faculty at Nova School of Business and Economics, and a resident member of NOVAFRICA. Her main research fields are Political Economy, Development Economics, and Environmental and Natural Resources Economics. Her current projects document the impact of natural resources on conflicts, identities fragmentation, deforestation, and other dimensions of local development, in the African continent.

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Seydou,16 years old, a gold prospector and manager of the grinder at a gold mine in Burkina Faso.
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From natural resource exploitation to ethnic group identification

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When quotas reduce discrimination

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