RePEc plagiarism accused offender: Sylvester Jatta

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RePEc plagiarism accused offender: Sylvester Jatta

Identification

Name: Sylvester Jatta
Affiliation at time of decision: unknown

Facts

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Sylvester Jatta, 2013.Non-farm wages and poverty alleviation in developing countries MPRA working paper 47180 (local copy)

Ann Gordon and Catherine Craig, 2001. Rural Non-Farm Activities and Povestry Alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Greenwich Natural Resources Institute Policy Series 14 (local copy)

The first is copy of the second, except for some word smithing.

Response of accused offender

Sylvester Jatta did not respond to a sollication for comment.

Committee decision

YES Notification of offender superiors
YES Notification of editor published plagiarising work
YES Request of removal of plagiarising work
YES Notification of afflicted author(s)
YES Notification of afflicted editor
YES Banning of author from RePEc Author Service
YES Publication on RePEc plagiarism page

Further developments

After committee voting had started, it was noticed that the 2008 Word Development Report of the World Bank was also plagiarized by taking large parts verbatim.

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