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Absorptive Capacity: More Than the Volume of Aid, its Modalities Matter (2007)
Absorptive Capacity: More Than the Volume of Aid, its Modalities Matter
Guillaumont, Patrick
We examine whether absorptive capacity represents a valid reason to reject the proposal of a large aid increase in order to help poor countries to move out of the underdevelopment trap. We consider absorptive capacity, the set of limits to an effective use of aid inflows, under for main aspects: 1) [...]
Access to Financial Services and Working Poverty in Developing Countries (2016)
Access to Financial Services and Working Poverty in Developing Countries
Coulibaly, Aïssata
This paper investigates the effect of access to financial services on the prevalence of working poor. Using a panel of 63 developing countries over the period 2004-2013, we find that improving financial access (as measured by the number of bank branches per 100,000 adults) reduces the [...]
Access to water as a determinant of rental values: A hedonic analysis in Rwanda (2014)
Access to water as a determinant of rental values: A hedonic analysis in Rwanda
Choumert-Nkolo, Johanna
In this paper, we study the determinants of rental values in urban housing markets in Kigali, Rwanda. In particular, we study the value of access to piped water; due to the high costs associated with installing new piped connections, renting a property with an existing connection is often the only w [...]
Adapting Aid Allocation Criteria to Development Goals (2008)
Adapting Aid Allocation Criteria to Development Goals
Guillaumont, Patrick
This paper analyzes aid allocation from a normative point of view. It attempts to design aid allocation criteria adapted to development goals and combining the principles of effectiveness and equity in a transparent and integrated framework. The common view about aid selectivity, which essentially r [...]
Addressing Contextual and Location Biases in the Assessment of Protected Areas Effectiveness on Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazônia
Kere, Eric Nazindigouba
Using a remotely sensed pixel data set, we develop a multilevel model and propensity score weighting with multilevel data to assess the impact of protected areas on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. These techniques allow taking into account location bias, contextual bias and the dependence of [...]
Afrique au Sud du Sahara : quelle stratégie de transition fiscale ? (2005)
Afrique au Sud du Sahara : quelle stratégie de transition fiscale ?
Chambas, Gérard
Les pays d'Afrique subsaharienne sont engagés dans des politiques de libéralisation commerciale. Afin de préserver, voire de renforcer leur niveau de ressources publiques, ces pays mettent actuellement en œuvre des politiques de transition fiscale qui ont pour objectif de substituer des ressources d [...]
Agricultural primary commodity export and environmental degradation: what consequences for population's health?
Drabo, Alassane
In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels. While the mechanisms through which trade is associated with pollution are largely investigated theoretically and empirically, the role played by each trade component has not yet receive [...]
Agricultural Trade and Rural Poverty in Post-reform China (2005)
Agricultural Trade and Rural Poverty in Post-reform China
Liang, Zhicheng
In this paper, by employing Chinese provincial data, we develop a simultaneous equation model to estimate the relationship between agricultural trade and rural poverty in post-reform China. We find that trade liberalization can affect China's poverty both directly through providing the poor with eff [...]
Aid effectiveness for poverty reduction:macroeconomic overview and emerging issues (2009)
Aid effectiveness for poverty reduction:macroeconomic overview and emerging issues
Guillaumont, Patrick
The aim of this paper is to examine the main reasons how aid can contribute to poverty reduction, the channels through which it can do so and the lessons of the literature on these issues, with a special focus on the way aid can address the vulnerability faced by many developing countries.
How Aid Helps Achieving MDGs in Africa: the Case of Primary Education (2015)
How Aid Helps Achieving MDGs in Africa: the Case of Primary Education
Mallaye, Douzounet
Since 2000, Official Development Assistance has played a crucial role in efforts related to the achievement of MDGs. This is especially the case in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) which is the world’s largest recipient of foreign aid. This paper assesses the effectiveness of aid and its efficient use in ac [...]
Aid and Income Stabilization (2009)
Aid and Income Stabilization
Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane
EN: This article contributes to the debate on aid volatility and argues that official assistance copes with exogenous output shocks in recipient countries and stabilizes resources available for the financing of consumption, investment and net trade. Stabilizing aid is effective in aid-dependent and [...]
Aid Selectivity According to Augmented Criteria (2016)
Aid Selectivity According to Augmented Criteria
Guillaumont, Patrick
A dominant trend in the literature maintains that donor assistance should be targeted to poor countries with sound institutions and policies. In this context, donor selectivity refers to what extent aid is allocated according to the principles of this "canonical" model. This paper shows that it is l [...]
Is Aid Unfriendly to Tax? African Evidence of Heterogeneous Direct and Indirect Effects (2016)
Is Aid Unfriendly to Tax? African Evidence of Heterogeneous Direct and Indirect Effects
Yohou, Djedje Hermann
We explore the heterogeneous effects together with the transmission channels of aid on tax revenues in 47 African countries over 1990-2011 using a panel smooth threshold regression model and two alternative tax datasets from IMF and ICTD. We find that aid enhances tax revenues with decreasing return [...]
Aid and Universal Primary Education (2010)
Aid and Universal Primary Education
D'Aiglepierre, Rohen
Universal Primary Education (UPE) is one of the main objectives of development aid. However, very little empirical evidence of its effectiveness actually exists. Until very recently, the quality of available data was not sufficient to obtain robust results regarding the relationship between internat [...]
Aid, Volatility and Growth Again. When Aid Volatility Matters and When it Does Not (2007)
Aid, Volatility and Growth Again. When Aid Volatility Matters and When it Does Not
Chauvet, Lisa
In previous papers we have argued that aid is likely to mitigate the negative effects of external shocks on economic growth (i.e. that aid is more effective in countries which are more vulnerable to external shocks). Recently an important debate has emerged about the possible negative effects of aid [...]
Aid, Volatility and Growth,with special reference to Africa (2006)
Aid, Volatility and Growth,with special reference to Africa
Chauvet, Lisa
In two previous papers we have argued that aid is likely to mitigate the negative effects of external shocks on economic growth (i.e. that aid is more effective in countries which are more vulnerable to external shocks). Recently an important debate has emerged about the possible negative effects of [...]
Aide et mobilisation fiscale dans les pays en développement (2008)
Aide et mobilisation fiscale dans les pays en développement
Brun, Jean-François
L'objectif de l'étude est d'analyser la relation entre l'aide au développement et le prélèvement public. Il s'agit de d'évaluer si l'aide incite les pays receveurs à réduire leur taux de prélèvement, autrement dit s'il existe en effet d'éviction des recettes publiques par l'aide extérieure.
[...]Aide publique au développement et transition fiscale (2009)
Aide publique au développement et transition fiscale
Attila, Gbewopo
FR : Cet article analyse l’impact de l’aide publique au développement sur la transition fiscale dans les pays en développement. Après avoir construit des indicateurs qualitatifs de transition fiscale et envisagé les mécanismes par lesquels l’APD affecte l’adoption d’une réforme de transition fiscale [...]
Alert at Maradi: preventing food crisis using price signals (2010)
Alert at Maradi: preventing food crisis using price signals
Araujo, Claudio
National early warning systems of Sahelian countries are mainly based on biophysics models to predict agricultural production shortages and prevent food crisis. The objective of this paper is to show that cereal market prices also bring useful information on future food availability that could compl [...]
Allocation du temps de travail des femmes au Sénégal - Travaux domestiques et activités génératrices de revenus
Buisson, Marie-Charlotte
L'allègement des travaux domestiques et l'accroissement de la part de revenu du ménage sur lequel les femmes ont un pouvoir de décision sont deux objectifs de développement complémentaires quoique motivés par des raisons différentes. Pour atteindre ces objectifs, il convient de comprendre comment le [...]
On the allocation of environmental aid : strategy beyond environmental considerations? (2021)
On the allocation of environmental aid : strategy beyond environmental considerations?
Boly, Mohamed
The objective of the present paper is to study the factors associated with environmental bilateral aid to recipient countries over the 1990-2013 period, to assess whether it is motivated by non-environmental factors such as donors’ self-interest. Environmental ODA is measured using the [...]
An analysis of duration dependence of government revenue expansions and contractions in Developing Countries
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm
In this paper, we employ the discrete-time duration model to examine whether expansion and contraction phases of government revenue exhibit duration dependence. We hence use an unbalanced panel data of public revenue on 68 developing countries over the period 1980-2009. The analysis also covers the [...]
Appreciation of the renminbi and urban-rural income disparity (2008)
Appreciation of the renminbi and urban-rural income disparity
Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane
Although poverty has been significantly decreased in China over the last twenty years, this decrease has been highly unequal across the provinces and has brought increased disparity in urban and rural per capita income. We studied the impact of exchange rate policy on urban-rural per capita income, [...]
Armed Conflict and Children's School/Work Time Allocation : evidence from Côte d'Ivoire (2020-09-16)
Armed Conflict and Children's School/Work Time Allocation : evidence from Côte d'Ivoire
Dago, Eric
This paper examines the relationship between armed conflict and school/work time allocation for children aged 10 to 14 years. The paper uses household level data from Côte d’Ivoire combined with information on the exact location and date of conflict events. The identification strategy [...]
Assessing the effects of combating illicit financial flows on domestic tax revenue mobilization in developing countries
Combes, Jean-Louis
Using propensity score matching, this paper assesses the effects of tackling illicit financial flows (IFFs) on domestic tax revenue mobilization in developing countries. It uses data on countries’ compliance with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations as treatment variable and involves 6 [...]
Assessing the impact of Basel III on bank behaviour: A micro-founded approach (2018)
Assessing the impact of Basel III on bank behaviour: A micro-founded approach
Pépy, Jérémy
The failures of the banking sector to promote sustainable lending and to build strong capital and liquidity buffers prior to the 2008 Financial Crisis addressed the rationale for implementing the banking regulatory regime Basel III. In this paper, we question the fundamental role of this new regulato [...]
Assessing the relationship between democracy and domestic taxes in developing countries (2009)
Assessing the relationship between democracy and domestic taxes in developing countries
Ehrhart, Hélène
To what extent differences across developing countries in their domestic tax mobilization can be explained, in addition to the traditional determinants, by political economy factors and particularly by the political regime? Using a panel of 66 developing countries over the period 1990-2005, this pap [...]
Assessing the Responsiveness of Private Investment to Economic Reforms: The Case of MENA Countries
Aysan, Ahmet Faruk
During the 1980s and the 1990s, private investment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has on average shown a decreasing or stagnant trend. This contrasts with the situation of the Asian economies, where private investment has always been more dynamic. In this paper, it is empirically shown f [...]
Assessing the World Bank's influence on the good governance paradigm (2011)
Assessing the World Bank's influence on the good governance paradigm
Diarra, Gaoussou
What does governance mean for the World Bank and to what extent does the organization succeed in diffusing the paradigm worldwide? The World Bank primarily focused on economic aspects of governance in the 1980s, and progressively moved to its political dimensions towards the end of 1990s. The paper [...]
Attitude towards Risk and Production Decision: An Empirical analysis on French private forest owners
Kere, Eric Nazindigouba
This paper deals with the forest owner’s attitude towards risk and the harvesting decision in several ways.First, we propose to characterize and quantify the forest owner’s attitude towards risk.Second, we analyze the determinants of the forest owner’s risk attitude. Finally, we determine the impact [...]
Au bord du précipice, opterons-nous pour les monnaies complémentaires locales ? (2016)
Au bord du précipice, opterons-nous pour les monnaies complémentaires locales ?
Tichit, Ariane
EN: Noting the risk of collapse of our civilization by 2030 if major trends are not curbed rapidly, this article argues that local complementary currencies could be vectors of real change in the near future. Their potential transforming power appears in the questioning of the monetary and financial [...]
Bank Competition and Credit Constraints in Developing Countries: New Evidence (2014)
Bank Competition and Credit Constraints in Developing Countries: New Evidence
Léon, Florian
Bank Competition and Credit Constraints in Developing Countries: New Evidence Whether competition helps or hinders small firms' access to finance is in itself a much debated question in the economic literature and in policy circles, especially in the developing world. Economic theory offers conflict [...]
Beggar-thy-Neighbor Effects of Currency Undervaluation: Is China the Tip of the Iceberg? (2012)
Beggar-thy-Neighbor Effects of Currency Undervaluation: Is China the Tip of the Iceberg?
Mbaye, Samba
This paper examines empirically one of the most popular views in international economics, yet barely tested: undervaluation of the currency is a "beggar-thy-neighbor" policy. It assesses simultaneously the two closely related implications of the beggar-thy-neighbor view: (i) undervaluation of the do [...]
Who benefits from the return of the rains? The case of the Ferlo breeders in Senegal (2019)
Who benefits from the return of the rains? The case of the Ferlo breeders in Senegal
Araujo Bonjean, Catherine
The return of more abundant rainfall in the Sahel region since the early 2000s raises questions about the consequences of this change for breeders in the Ferlo region of Senegal. A detailed analysis of precipitation data shows that with the return of a more humid rainfall regime, the c [...]
Big Push versus Absorptive Capacity: How to Reconcile the Two Approaches (2006)
Big Push versus Absorptive Capacity: How to Reconcile the Two Approaches
Guillaumont, Patrick
EN: We examine whether absorptive capacity represents a compulsory reason to reject the proposal of a large aid increase to support a big push. We argue that poverty trap is a probability for many countries, in particular the Least Developed Countries and that an aid increase is relevant for them. M [...]
The biofuel-development nexus: A meta-analysis (2017)
The biofuel-development nexus: A meta-analysis
Choumert-Nkolo, Johanna
While the production of biofuels has expanded in recent years, findings in the literature on its impact on growth and development remain contradictory. This paper presents a meta-analysis of computable general equilibrium studies published between 2006 and 2014. Using 26 studies, we shed light on wh [...]
Biofuels and food security: Evidence from Indonesia and Mexico (2019)
Biofuels and food security: Evidence from Indonesia and Mexico
Boly, Mohamed
We analyze food security effects of biofuel production by using the synthetic control method. This retrospective and graphical analysis focuses on Indonesia and Mexico from 2000 to 2013. Indonesia is a major biodiesel producer while Mexico is specialized in maize and ethanol. Our findings show that [...]
Border Apprehensions and Federal Sentencing of Hispanic Citizens in the United States (2023)
Border Apprehensions and Federal Sentencing of Hispanic Citizens in the United States
Bertoli, Simone
We provide evidence that Hispanic citizens receive significantly longer sentences than non-Hispanic citizens in the Federal Criminal Justice System in the United States when a higher number of illegal aliens are apprehended along the southwest border. Apprehensions can increase the sal [...]
Braving the waves: The economics of clandestine migration from Africa (2011)
Braving the waves: The economics of clandestine migration from Africa
Arcand, Jean-Louis
Illegal immigration from the developing world to rich countries is one of the most controversial topics today. Using a unique data set on potential illegal migrants collected in Dakar, Senegal, we characterize the preferences and characteristics of illegal migrants, and the manner in which these fac [...]
Braving the waves: the role of time and risk preferences in illegal migration from Senegal (2013)
Braving the waves: the role of time and risk preferences in illegal migration from Senegal
Arcand, Jean-Louis
This paper aims to provide the first evidence concerning the relationship between time and risk preferences and illegal migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected in urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time and ri [...]
Breaking the wave of democracy: The effect of foreign aid on the incumbent's re-election probability
Moreno-Dodson, Blanca
We investigate whether foreign aid affects the probability of incumbent's re-election and then the Schumpeterian quality of democracy in developing countries. We present a simple theoretical framework, which captures the competitiveness of elections through the Tullock's approach based on the Contes [...]
Bringing It All Back Home Return migration and fertility choices (2012)
Bringing It All Back Home Return migration and fertility choices
Bertoli, Simone
Return migration exerts wide-ranging influence upon the countries of origin of the migrants. We analyze whether returnees adjust their fertility choices to match the norms which prevail in their previous countries of destinations, using Egyptian household-level data. Egyptians migrate predominantly [...]
Building Stronger Economic Institutions in Developing Countries, the Role of FDI (2022-02)
Building Stronger Economic Institutions in Developing Countries, the Role of FDI
Okara, Assi
Foreign Direct Investment flows to developing economies have increased significantly over the last decades, bringing about important changes in the developing world. This paper is interested in the institutional aspect of these changes, a dimension weakly investigated in the developmen [...]
Buoyant Capital Spending and Worries over Real Appreciation: Cold Facts from Algeria (2008)
Buoyant Capital Spending and Worries over Real Appreciation: Cold Facts from Algeria
Kpodar, Kangni
The Government of Algeria has pursed a relatively expansionary fiscal policy in recent years, thanks to rising oil prices and revenues. The paper explores the potential effects of such a stance on real exchange rate and uncovers a relatively small appreciating effect of increased government capital [...]
Can domestic debt contribute to the financing of the “Millennium Development Goals” ? The case of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)
Guérineau, Samuel
Developing countries are being urged to extent public spending to reach The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Following a series of debt cancellations, the public debt of many developing countries has reached low levels, so that external borrowing is a plausible option. However, developing countr [...]
Can fiscal rules curb income inequality? Evidence from developing countries (2019)
Can fiscal rules curb income inequality? Evidence from developing countries
Combes, Jean-Louis
Despite a large literature linking fiscal policy and income inequality (IQ), the relationship between fiscal rules (FR) and IQ is severely underexplored. In a large panel of developing countries, propensity score matching estimations reveal that countries that adopted FR experience a s [...]
Can fiscal rules improve financial markets access for developing countries ? (2019)
Can fiscal rules improve financial markets access for developing countries ?
Sawadogo, Pegdéwendé Nestor
Several countries have introduced fiscal rules to deter fiscal profligacy, enhance the credibility of fiscal policy and reduce borrowing costs. In this paper, we examine the strength of fiscal rules in terms of improving financial markets access for developing countries. We use entropy balancing and [...]
Can the removal of VAT Exemptions support the Poor? The Case of Niger (2011)
Can the removal of VAT Exemptions support the Poor? The Case of Niger
Boccanfuso, Dorothée
In order to have the public funds necessary for its development, Niger is examining the possibility of expanding its VAT tax base to exempted goods and basic food products. This proposal has prompted violent opposition leading to the question of the social impacts of taxation. The first micro-macro [...]
Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants’ quality? (2014)
Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants’ quality?
Bertoli, Simone
Destination countries have been resorting to selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observab [...]
Capital Flows and their Impact on the Real Effective Exchange Rate (2010)
Capital Flows and their Impact on the Real Effective Exchange Rate
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper analyzes the impact of capital inflows and the exchange rate regime on the real effective exchange rate. A wide range of developing countries (42 countries) is considered with estimation based on panel cointegration techniques. The results show that both public and private inflows cause t [...]
Caractéristiques structurelles et industrialisation en Afrique : Une première exploration (2011)
Caractéristiques structurelles et industrialisation en Afrique : Une première exploration
Goujon, Michaël
On considère généralement que le développement des secteurs industriels est lié à la croissance ou au développement économique. Il est aussi usuel de considérer que les relatives mauvaises performances des pays africains sont expliquées par des obstacles à l'industrialisation, qu'ils soient structur [...]
The CERDI-seadistance database (2016)
The CERDI-seadistance database
Bertoli, Simone
We describe the publicly available CERDI-seadistance database, which contains bilateral maritime distances between 227 countries and territories. The relevant port(s) for countries with access to the sea is defined as the coastal cell of a country that contains the highest number of shipping lines, [...]
Challenging pollution and the balance problem from rare earth extraction: How recycling and environmental taxation matter
Combes-Motel, Pascale
Rare earth elements extraction induces pollution and the balance problem. In this article, we investigate how far recycling and environmental taxation challenge both questions. In a two-period framework, we assume a monopoly extractor in the first period that is in competition with one recycler in t [...]
Child Mortality Reacts to Relative Prices (2008)
Child Mortality Reacts to Relative Prices
Grigoriou, Christopher
This paper argues that, for a given average level of income per capita, the real currency depreciation has a negative impact on child survival, due to higher relative prices of tradable goods such as food and drug. This assumption is significantly tested from a dynamic panel model covering about one [...]
Chocolate price fluctuations may cause depression: an analysis of price pass-through in the cocoa chain
Araujo Bonjean, Catherine
The aim of this paper is to explore the channels of transmission of the fluctuations in the world price of cocoa to the consumer of chocolate bars in France. This case study can be considered as an illustration of a more general pattern of asymmetric vertical price transmission in the commodity-fina [...]
Classification des systèmes de monnaies non-bancaires : ce que disent les données du Web (2014)
Classification des systèmes de monnaies non-bancaires : ce que disent les données du Web
Landivar, Diego Sébastien
This article proposes a classification of the projects of non-banking currencies based on a lexical analysis on the Web data. The advantage of this method is to offer an endogenous typology of the initiatives, based on the way the various currencies are presented on the internet. She so allows to by [...]
Classifying Non-banking Monetary Systems using Web Data (2015)
Classifying Non-banking Monetary Systems using Web Data
Tichit, Ariane
This paper develops a new classification of non-banking currencies projects based on a lexical analysis from web data. The advantage of this method is to derive an endogenous typology of monetary projects, based on how currencies are depicted on the internet. Therefore, it allows to by-pass issues f [...]
Climate Change and Food Security: Do Spatial Spillovers Matter? (2016)
Climate Change and Food Security: Do Spatial Spillovers Matter?
Kere, Eric Nazindigouba
This article analyzes the role of spatial spillovers in the relationship between climate change and food security in developing countries over the period of 1971-2010. Using a Samuelson’s spatial price equilibrium model (theoretically) and Spatial Durbin Model (empirically), results show a strategic [...]
Climatic Variability and Food Security in Developing Countries (2014)
Climatic Variability and Food Security in Developing Countries
Badolo, Félix
This paper contributes to the existing literature on climatic variability and food security. It analyses the impact of climatic variability on food security for 71 developing countries, from 1960 to 2008. Using two complementary indicators of food security (food supply and proportion of undernourish [...]
CO 2 mitigation in developing countries: the role of foreign aid (2018)
CO 2 mitigation in developing countries: the role of foreign aid
Boly, Mohamed
This paper empirically investigates the link between foreign aid and pollution, specifically CO2 emissions in developing countries. We use a more complete and recent dataset to re-assess the environmental impact of foreign aid. Focusing on 112 aid recipient countries over the period 1980 - 2013, we [...]
Commerce du mil en Afrique de l'Ouest : les frontières abolies ? (2008)
Commerce du mil en Afrique de l'Ouest : les frontières abolies ?
Araujo Bonjean, Catherine
L'objectif de ce papier est de déterminer les zones d'intégration des marchés du mil au sein du sous espace régional africain constitué par le Niger, le Mali et le Burkina Faso en croisant différents indicateurs construits à partir des prix de marchés. Dans un premier temps une analyse de la persist [...]
Are Commodity Price Booms an Opportunity to Diversify? Evidence from Resource-dependent Countries
Anne, Clément
The recent commodity price drop has renewed attention on the importance to diversify resource-dependent economies in particular to limit their exposure to commodity price volatility. While commodity price booms can be an opportunity to diversify the economy if managed properly, it remains an empiric [...]
Commodity price volatility and Tax revenues: Evidence from developing countries (2012)
Commodity price volatility and Tax revenues: Evidence from developing countries
Ehrhart, Hélène
The recent boom and bust in commodity prices has renewed the policymakers' interest in three complementary issues: i) characteristics and determinants of commodity price instability, ii) its macroeconomic effects and, iii) the optimal policy responses to this instability. This work falls within the [...]
Community mills and women's empowerment in Burkina Faso (2018)
Community mills and women's empowerment in Burkina Faso
Araujo, Claudio
The Multi-Functional Platforms program consists of setting up powered community mills managed by women in rural areas. By strengthening women’s capacities in areas traditionally reserved for men, the program places women at the core of local development and places emphasis on the empowerment of wome [...]
Comportement des ménages Brésiliens face à la COVID-19 (2021-08)
Comportement des ménages Brésiliens face à la COVID-19
Phelinas, Pascale
The objective of this work is to explore the perceptions and attitudes of Brazilians towards the COVID-19 epidemic and to determine the factors that explain what leads individuals to comply with the social distancing measures and barrier gestures aimed at controlling the spread of the [...]
Is the concept of sustainable tourism sustainable? Developing the Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool
Cernat, Lucian
Given the complexity of the issues surrounding the concept of sustainable tourism, the current paper tries to provide a unified methodology to assess tourism sustainability, based on a number of quantitative indicators. The proposed methodological framework (Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool – S [...]
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Learning Crisis : Evidence from Tayssir Scale-up in Morocco
Gazeaud, Jules
We use a regression discontinuity design in rural Morocco to study whether the enrollment gains from conditional cash transfer programs translate into learning benefits. Unlike most previous studies, we estimate the effects of a sustained exposure during whole primary school. We find s [...]
Conflict, growth and human development. An empirical analysis of Pakistan (2019)
Conflict, growth and human development. An empirical analysis of Pakistan
Rizvi, Syed Muhammad
In this paper, we use the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bound Testing cointegration approach to study the long-term relationship between internal conflict, economic growth, and human development in Pakistan. We show that, by offering better opportunities and reducing radicalization, educatio [...]
Conflict, Ideology and Foreign Aid (2010)
Conflict, Ideology and Foreign Aid
Arcand, Jean-Louis
In this paper, we present a rent-seeking model of conflict, which highlights the role of ideology in determining whether the government or the rebels take the initiative. We use the model to interpret the impact of a large-scale Community-Driven Development project on civil conflict in the Philippin [...]
The consequences of Fiscal Episodes in OECD Countries for Aid Supply (2011)
The consequences of Fiscal Episodes in OECD Countries for Aid Supply
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm
This paper contributes to the established literature both on the side of fiscal consolidation (for e.g. Alesina and Perotti 1995; Alesina et al. 2010) and that of aid supplies (for e.g. Mosley 1985; Faini, 2006) by investigating the effects of fiscal episodes in OECD donor countries on their aid eff [...]
Contrats Incitatifs et Réforme des Douanes dans les PED : une Application des Modèles d'Agence Hiérarchique
Dequiedt, Vianney
Dans de nombreux pays en voie de développement, des Programmes de Vérification des Importations (PVI) ont été instaurés pour combattre la corruption des administrations douanières. Ils consistent à déléguer l'inspection des importations à une entreprise privée qui opère dans les pays exportateurs. D [...]
Contrôler moins pour contrôler mieux : L'utilisation du data mining pour la gestion du risque en douane
Geourjon, Anne-Marie
Pour limiter les contrôles intrusifs, les administrations douanières les plus modernes s'appuient sur l'analyse du risque, seul moyen efficace, compte tenu de l'accroissement du volume des opérations commerciales, pour faciliter les échanges et sécuriser leurs opérations. Les douanes des pays en dév [...]
Corruption et mobilisation des recettes publiques : une analyse économétrique (2007)
Corruption et mobilisation des recettes publiques : une analyse économétrique
Attila, Gbewopo
EN: In this paper, we analyze the relationship between corruption and public revenues. An empirical investigation of panel data (125 countries and covering the period 1980-2002) makes it possible not to reject the hypothesis that corruption has a negative effect on public revenues collection. Howeve [...]
Corruption and quality of public institutions: evidence from Generalized Method of Moment (2008)
Corruption and quality of public institutions: evidence from Generalized Method of Moment
Attila, Gbewopo
The aim of this paper was to re-examine the relationship between the quality of public institutions and corruption. Estimations from generalized method of moments show that better public institutions (regulation, bureaucracy, political structures) are associated with lower levels of corruption.
Corruption, taxation and economic growth: theory and evidence (2008)
Corruption, taxation and economic growth: theory and evidence
Attila, Gbewopo
In this paper, we analyze the interaction between corruption, taxation and economic growth. Our contributions are twofold. Theoretically, in an endogenous growth model, we introduce corruption in two different ways: corruption in the public expenditure and corruption in the public revenue. We show t [...]
Cost-utility Analysis of Vertebroplasty versus Thoracolumbosacral Orthosis in the Treatment of Traumatic Vertebral Fractures
Yakhelef, Nadia
Purpose: To evaluate the cost-utility of Vertebroplasty versus conservative therapy (Thoracolumbosacral orthosis) for treatment of post-traumatic non-osteoporotic and/or non-neoplastic fractures.Materials and Methods: A prospective, randomized, non-blinded, single-center study was carried out betwee [...]
Couples in lockdown, "La vie en rose" ? Evidence from France (2021)
Couples in lockdown, "La vie en rose" ? Evidence from France
Champeaux, Hugues
Stay-at-home policies due to the Covid-19 pandemic have drastically increased housework and childcare. During the lockdown, couples were harshly challenged by this novel situation which could notably redistribute roles and/or could also lead to intrahousehold conflicts. In this paper, [...]
Crises and Exchange Rate Regimes: Time to break down the bipolar view? (2013)
Crises and Exchange Rate Regimes: Time to break down the bipolar view?
Combes, Jean-Louis
We revisit the link between crises and exchange rate regimes (ERR). Using a panel of 90 developed and developing countries over the period 1980-2009, we find that corner ERR are not more prone to crises compared to intermediate ERR. This finding holds for different types of crises (banking, currency [...]
A database of the economic impacts of historical volcanic eruptions (2021)
A database of the economic impacts of historical volcanic eruptions
Goujon, Michaël
History has shown that economic consequences of a volcanic eruption can be disastrous, and nowadays 800 million people in 86 different countries are living within 100 km of an active or a potentially active volcano. Eruptions can cause significant economic loss and damage directly (eru [...]
Decentralization in Africa and the nature of local governments' competition: evidence from Benin
Caldeira, Emilie
Without denying particular dimensions of the decentralisation in Sub-Saharan countries, this paper applies standard reasoning from the fiscal federalism literature to a developing country and tests the existence of strategic interactions among local Beninese governments, called 'communes'. We first [...]
Decentralization and Ethnic Conflict: The Role of Empowerment (2007)
Decentralization and Ethnic Conflict: The Role of Empowerment
Tranchant, Jean-Pierre
Decentralization is increasing in all parts of the world. Assessing the efficiency of decentralization as a means to mitigate ethnic conflict is then of primarily importance. This paper builds a simple model of decentralization as an empowerment mechanism. It suggests that decentralization could pro [...]
Decentralization, spending efficiency and pro-poor outcomes in Morocco (2018)
Decentralization, spending efficiency and pro-poor outcomes in Morocco
Elkhdari, Maria
This paper studies how decentralization affects poverty, vulnerability, and inequality in Morocco, in the context of ongoing regionalization reforms. We use different non-parametric approaches to assess spending efficiency of Moroccan municipalities and regions over the period 2005-2009. The results [...]
Décloisonner l’analyse des données pour appuyer la modernisation des douanes : une illustration à partir du Gabon
Cariolle, Joel
Over the last few years, customs authorities in many developing countries have introduced modern risk management techniques relying on data mining and statistical scoring techniques. By demonstrating that risk analysis in customs may be a valuable tool to facilitate legal trade and combat fraud more [...]
Deconcentration, political and fiscal decentralization, in Morocco (2018)
Deconcentration, political and fiscal decentralization, in Morocco
Elkhdari, Maria
The paper examines how the Government of Morocco has addressed the issue of decentralization in recent years and how these processes have evolved and affected fiscal and public policies. More specifically, this paper analyzes the current legislative and institutional provisions governing administrat [...]
Deficit, Seigniorage and the Growth Laffer Curve in developing countries (2009)
Deficit, Seigniorage and the Growth Laffer Curve in developing countries
Ehrhart, Hélène
The endogenous growth literature has established the existence of an inverted-U curve between taxes and economic growth, namely a Growth Laffer Curve (GLC). We develop a growth model with public investment as the engine of perpetual growth, and look for the effect of deficit, tax and money financing [...]
Deforestation and credit cycles in Latin American countries (2008)
Deforestation and credit cycles in Latin American countries
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper establishes a link between deforestation and credit cycles in Latin American countries. The latter exhibit rapid deforestation rates as well as macroeconomic instability that is often rooted in credit booms and crunches episodes: data available on the last years show a coincidence between [...]
Deforestation and the Real Exchange Rate (2005)
Deforestation and the Real Exchange Rate
Arcand, Jean-Louis
Deforestation is a phenomenon that has largely been concentrated in the developing world. We construct a theoretical model of deforestation that focuses on the factors affecting the incentives to transform forested land into agricultural land. We show that: (i) lower discount rates and stronger inst [...]
Deforestation and Seigniorage in Developing Countries: A Tradeoff? (2013)
Deforestation and Seigniorage in Developing Countries: A Tradeoff?
Combes, Jean-Louis
Most of countries covered by natural forests are developing countries, with limited ability to levy taxes and restrained access to international credit markets; consequently, they are amenable to draw heavily on two sources of government financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Firs [...]
Democracy, Elections and Allocation of Public Expenditure in Developing Countries (2006)
Democracy, Elections and Allocation of Public Expenditure in Developing Countries
Vergne, Clémence
This paper overcomes traditional political budget cycles models, focusing solely on the dynamics of the overall budget, in order to shed light on electoral composition changes in public spending. Using data on 42 developing countries from 1975 to 2001, we find evidence of electoral impacts on the al [...]
Determinants of agricultural land values in Argentina (2014)
Determinants of agricultural land values in Argentina
Choumert-Nkolo, Johanna
In the context of the rapid development of the cultivation of genetically modified soybeans in Argentina, we conduct a hedonic analysis of agricultural land values. The main objective is to evaluate the impact of land tenure systems and agricultural practices on these values. Data on 338 parcels, lo [...]
Determinants of Amazon Deforestation: The role of Off-Farm Income (2014)
Determinants of Amazon Deforestation: The role of Off-Farm Income
Araujo, Claudio
This paper aims at assessing the determinants of Amazon deforestation, with an emphasis on the role played by off-farm income. We first present a microeconomic model which relates off-farm income to deforestation patterns. We then test the empirical implications by using data on the 2006 Brazilian A [...]
Determinants of Internal Migration among Senegalese Youth (2013)
Determinants of Internal Migration among Senegalese Youth
Herrera Almanza, Catalina
We analyze the socio-economic determinants of youth decision to internally migrate in Senegal. Young people undertake mostly rural-to-rural and urban-to-urban migrations and over half of them are temporary migrants. Using multinomial logit models, we estimate the role of household and community char [...]
Déterminants de la demande de soins en milieu péri-urbain dans un contexte de subvention à Pikine, Sénégal
Dieng, Moussa
Depuis les années 2000, le Sénégal a adopté des politiques nationales visant la suppression progressive du paiement direct au point de services pour rendre les soins de santé plus accessibles. La mise en place de ces politiques de subvention et de gratuité dans un espace dense hétérogène voire hétér [...]
On the determinants of life insurance development in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of the institutions quality in the effect of economic development
Guérineau, Samuel
This paper analyzes the determinants of life insurance development on a panel of 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1996-2011. It also highlights the role of the institutions quality on the effect of economic development on the life insurance. Controlling for the presence of a possib [...]
Déterminants des transferts intergouvernementaux : le cas des communes Marocaines (2015)
Déterminants des transferts intergouvernementaux : le cas des communes Marocaines
El Khdari, Maria
EN: Using an unexplored panel data on 1388 Moroccan municipalities from 2005 to 2009, this paper tries to investigate if the Moroccan central government follows a formula based approach when it redistributes the Value Added Tax (VAT) to local municipalities. By identifying the most important factors [...]
Developing inclusive economic institutions in South countries: The role of FDI (2018)
Developing inclusive economic institutions in South countries: The role of FDI
Okara, Assi
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows to developing economies have increased significantly over the last decades, bringing about important changes in the developing world. This paper is interested in the institutional aspect of these changes, a dimension weakly investigated in the development literat [...]
Development and biodiversity conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial analysis (2013)
Development and biodiversity conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial analysis
Amin, Ariane Manuela
A better understanding of the relationship between economic development and biodiversity loss is of great relevance, given the current rapid extinction of species along with challenges born from the context of economic development in poor countries. The purpose of the current study is to provide a s [...]
Disentangling Market Access Effects of Preferential Trading Arrangements Application for ASEAN Members under an ASEAN-EU FTA
Carrere, Céline
The paper develops two synthetic measures at the HS-10 level to depict effective market access for a country receiving preferential access and applies these to the market access ASEAN members would receive on impact following the implementation of an FTA with the EU. First, the measures show that cu [...]
Disinflation against the Environment? An application to the trade-off between seigniorage and deforestation
Combes, Jean-Louis
The forest still covers an important share of land area in many developing countries and represents an important source of revenue for governments. Another major contribution to government revenues comes from printing money, namely the seigniorage. Building on a simple theoretical model where govern [...]
The Distance Effect and the Regionalization of the Trade of Low-Income Countries (2009)
The Distance Effect and the Regionalization of the Trade of Low-Income Countries
Carrere, Céline
The “distance effect” measuring the elasticity of trade flows to distance has been to be rising since the early 1970s in a host of studies based on the gravity model, leading observers to call it the “distance puzzle”. We review the evidence and explanations. Using an extensive data set of 124 count [...]
How do African populations perceive corruption: microeconomic evidence from Afrobarometer data in twelve countries
Attila, Gbewopo
In this paper, we examine the microeconomic determinants of the perception of corruption in twelve Sub-Saharan African countries. Unlike the indicators of corruption based on the opinion of international experts, the study focuses on corrupt practices as experienced by the African people themselves. [...]
How do agro-pastoral policies affect the dietary intake of agro-pastoralists in Niger? (2019)
How do agro-pastoral policies affect the dietary intake of agro-pastoralists in Niger?
Muller, Christophe
We investigate the causal mechanisms underlying the effect of agricultural policies directed toward pastoralist households in Niger on their dietary intake. To do so, we conduct a causal mediation analysis while referring to theoretical agricultural household models. The presumed mediator of interes [...]
How Do Banking Crises Affect Bilateral Exports? (2013)
How Do Banking Crises Affect Bilateral Exports?
Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf
This paper investigates whether banking crises are associated with declines in bilateral exports. We first develop a simple open economy model in which banking crises translate into negative liquidity shocks, leading to collapses in exports through supply-side and demand-side shocks. We then estimat [...]
Do Environmental Policies Hurt Trade Performance? (2014)
Do Environmental Policies Hurt Trade Performance?
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper contributes to the controversial literature on the relationship between environmental policies and international trade. It provides new evidence about the effect of a gap in environmental policies between trading partners on trade flow on a sample of developed and developing countries ove [...]
Do migrants transfer productive knowledge back to their origin countries? (2016)
Do migrants transfer productive knowledge back to their origin countries?
Valette, Jérome
This paper analyses whether international migrants contribute to foster innovation in developing countries by inducing a transfer of productive knowledge from destination to the migrants’ home countries. Using the Economic Complexity Index as a proxy for the amount of productive knowledge embedded i [...]
Do National Numerical Fiscal Rules Really Shape Fiscal Behaviours in Developing Countries? A Treatment Effect Evaluation
Tapsoba, René
This paper analyses the effect of National Numerical Fiscal Rules (FRs) upon fiscal discipline in 74 developing countries over the period 1990-2007. It is the first study that assesses the impact of FRs on budgetary outcomes while controlling for the self-selection problem. It finds that the effect [...]
How Do Natural Disasters Affect Saving Behavior? (2016)
How Do Natural Disasters Affect Saving Behavior?
Stéphane, Victor
The aim of this paper is to investigate how being exposed to natural disasters affectsthe long term quantity of capital held by households. Natural hazards affect households’ capital accumulation through the destruction of assets and income but also through their impact on saving behavior. Based on [...]
Do Natural Disasters Hurt Tax Resource Mobilization? (2015)
Do Natural Disasters Hurt Tax Resource Mobilization?
Kere, Eric Nazindigouba
According to several reports, natural disasters and climate change will intensify and dampen development if appropriate measures are not implemented. Our paper contributes to this literature and analyzes the impact of natural disasters on domestic resource mobilization in developing countries. Using [...]
How do OECD donor countries distribute foreign aid among developing countries during their fiscal episodes?
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm
In this paper, we investigate the effects of fiscal episodes in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) donor countries on the distribution of their aid expenditures towards developing countries. We use descriptive statistics provided by Alesina and Ardagna (2010) on fiscal epis [...]
Do Political Institutions protect the poor? Intra Countries Health Inequalities and Air Pollution in Developing Countries
Drabo, Alassane
This paper examines the link between health inequalities, air pollution and political institutions. In health economics literature, many studies have assessed the association between environmental degradation and health outcomes. This paper extends this literature by investigating how air pollution [...]
Do remittances dampen the effect of natural disasters on output growth volatility in developing countries?
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper analyzes the impact of natural disasters on the output growth volatility. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilizing a dynamic panel data framework, it uncovers a diminishing macroeconomic destabilizing consequence of natural disasters as remittance inflows rise. It appea [...]
What do we know about the mineral resource rent sharing in Africa? (2015)
What do we know about the mineral resource rent sharing in Africa?
Laporte, Bertrand
Governments that lack the capacity to mine resources themselves have to attract foreign direct investment. However, since resources are not renewable, countries need to capture a ‘fair’ share of mineral resource rent to promote their development. While the third raw materials super cycle increased t [...]
What do we know about the role of bank competition in Africa? (2015)
What do we know about the role of bank competition in Africa?
Léon, Florian
This paper reviews the literature regarding the consequences of interbank competition. The literature has identified three reasons why competition in the financial sector is important: firstly, for efficient functioning of financial intermediaries and markets, secondly, for firms and households acc [...]
Does China's Trade Expansion Help African Development? - A South-South Trade Model Approach (2010)
Does China's Trade Expansion Help African Development? - A South-South Trade Model Approach
He, Yong
With the aim to explain the explosive growth of trade between China and Africa, especially the impacts of China's exportation on African countries, a simple South-South trade model is constructed to formulate the idea that for a technologically backward country to improve its production capability, [...]
Does Community Driven Development Work? Evidence from Senegal (2006)
Does Community Driven Development Work? Evidence from Senegal
Arcand, Jean-Louis
Community Driven Development (CDD) programs are an extremely important component of the World Bank's portfolio in the developing world, representing close to $7 billion in 2003, yet solid empirical evidence on their impact is relatively scarce, especially for Subsaharan Africa. In this paper, we con [...]
Does the composition of government expenditures matter for sovereign bond spreads' evolution in developing countries?
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper evaluates the effects of public expenditures on sovereign bond spreads in emerging market countries. Specifically, the paper explores empirically how country risk, as proxied by sovereign bond spreads, is influenced by the different types of government expenditures (namely current spendin [...]
When does cooperation win and why? Political cycles and participation in international environmental agreements
Cazals, Antoine
Is there a strategically beneficial time for political leaders to make international environmental commitments? Based on the political cycles theory we argue that leaders have incentives to delay costly ratification of international environmental agreements to the post-electoral period. However, the [...]
Does the dual-citizenship recognition determine the level and the utilization of international remittances? Cross-Country Evidence
Ebeke, Christian Hubert
This paper shows that countries which allow a dual citizenship status for their international migrants receive on average more remittances than others. Using a cross-section of 104 developing countries with data averaged over the period 2000-2008, I distinguish between the direct effect of the dual [...]
Does Education Really Matter for Environmental Quality? (2010)
Does Education Really Matter for Environmental Quality?
Kinda, Somlanare Romuald
This paper investigates the impact of education on the growth of carbon dioxide emissions per capita over the period 1970-2004 in 85 countries. Using panel data and applying GMM-System estimations, our results suggest that education has no impact on the growth of air pollution for the whole sample. [...]
How does external debt impact democratization? Evidence from developing countries (2014)
How does external debt impact democratization? Evidence from developing countries
Combes, Jean-Louis
In this paper we empirically discuss whether or not external debt affects country’s governance. Indeed, indebted countries need some political governance reforms in order to send out a positive signal to international financial community and investors; and so improving business climate. However, ext [...]
Does fiscal adjustment affect income inequality? A new evidence of WAEMU countries (2018)
Does fiscal adjustment affect income inequality? A new evidence of WAEMU countries
Traoré, Mohamed
This paper examines the distributional effects of fiscal consolidation in WAEMU area, using Driscoll and Kraay fixed effects estimation method. Using a tighter fiscal stance, measured by changes in the cyclically-adjusted primary balance (CAPB), over the period 1990-2015, it shows income gap decreas [...]
Does fiscal decentralization enhance citizens’ access to public services and reduce poverty? Evidence from a conflict setting
Sanogo, Tiangboho
This paper investigates whether, and how, the devolution of revenue raising responsibilities to municipalities enhances access to public services and contributes to reducing poverty in Côte d’Ivoire. The analysis uses a local government’ revenue and expenditure dataset from 2001 to 2011 for 115 muni [...]
Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Political Stability ? Evidence from Developing Economies
Okara, Assi
This paper investigates the potential of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to counter socio-political instability, one of the most pressing challenges faced by developing countries. Socio-political (in)stability is approached from an institutional perspective and linked to one particular [...]
How Does Inclusive Growth Boost Tax Revenue Mobilization? (2016)
How Does Inclusive Growth Boost Tax Revenue Mobilization?
Combes, Jean-Louis
Despite high economic growth in the last decades, many developing countries remain into poverty, income inequality and unemployment of young people, which have led some countries to adopt inclusive growth strategies. In this paper, we show how inclusive growth can boost tax revenue mobilization in d [...]
Does industrial water pollution impede agriculture? Evidence from rice farming in China (2020)
Does industrial water pollution impede agriculture? Evidence from rice farming in China
Marchand, Sébastien
In the process of industrialization, relocation of manufacturing industries from urban to rural areas may have important implications for the rural environment and agricultural production. As a demonstration, the aim of this paper is to estimate the impact of wastewater from industrial [...]
Does Inflation Targeting Improve Fiscal Discipline? An Empirical Investigation (2010)
Does Inflation Targeting Improve Fiscal Discipline? An Empirical Investigation
Tapsoba, René
Based on panel data of 58 countries, of which 22 Inflation Targeters and 36 non Inflation Targeters, over the period 1980-2003, this paper highlights the effect of Inflation Targeting – IT- on Fiscal Discipline –FD-. We make four contributions to the literature. Firstly, by applying the 2SLS on the [...]
Does Inflation Targeting Matter for Attracting Foreign Direct Investment into Developing Countries?
Tapsoba, René
This paper investigates the effect of Inflation Targeting (IT) on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Based on panel data of 53 developing countries over the period 1980-2007, this study is the first, to the best of the author's knowledge, to evaluate directly the effect of IT on FDI. Using a variety o [...]
How does information on minimum and maximum food prices affect measured monetary poverty ? Evidence from Niger
Sayouti, Nouréini
Do households facing an interval of prices rather than a simple price alter the results of poverty analyses? To address this question, we exploit a unique dataset from Niger in which agropastoral households provide the minimum and maximum prices they paid for each consumed product in e [...]
Does Insurance Development Affect the Financial Markets in developing countries? (2015)
Does Insurance Development Affect the Financial Markets in developing countries?
Sawadogo, Relwende
This paper investigates the impact of insurance premiums on stock market development in 37 developing countries over the period 1987-2011. By controlling for the potential endogeneity bias, using the System GMM estimator, we show that the insurance premiums significantly increase the stock market to [...]
Does It Pour When it Rains? Capital Flows and Economic Growth in Developing Countries (2017)
Does It Pour When it Rains? Capital Flows and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper assesses the impact of capital inflows and their composition on the real exchange rate and economic growth in developing countries. Capital inflows can directly support economic growth by relaxing constraints on domestic resources, but can also indirectly weaken growth through the appreci [...]
Does Land Tenure Insecurity Drive Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? (2010)
Does Land Tenure Insecurity Drive Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
Araujo, Claudio
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the detrimental impact of land tenure insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. It is related to recent controversies about the detrimental impact of land laws on deforestation, which seem to legitimize land encroachments. The latter is mainly the [...]
Does Pervasive Corruption Matter For Firm's Demand for Good Governance in Developing Countries?
Diarra, Gaoussou
This paper investigates empirically the relationships between the corruption climate and the demand for good governance by focusing on firms' behaviors in developing countries. The concept of demand for good governance is conceived in terms of a firm's willingness to comply with regulatory norms mea [...]
Does Pro-cyclical Aid Lead to Pro-cyclical Fiscal Policy? An Empirical Analysis for Sub-Saharan Africa
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper examines the so-popular anecdote according to which pro-cyclical fiscal policies are due to pro-cyclical behavior of financing. We address the question of whether or not pro-cyclical aid leads to pro-cyclical fiscal policies in SSA recipient countries. We employed panel data techniques co [...]
Does Structural Economic Vulnerability Matter for Public Indebtedness in Developing Countries?
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm
In this study, we examine the effect of structural economic vulnerability of developing countries on their public indebtedness. We perform our econometric analysis by relying on 96 developing countries over the period 1980-2008. The results suggest evidence of a "U-shaped" relationship between the s [...]
Does the system of allocation of intergovernmental transfers in Senegal eliminate politically motivated targeting?
Caldeira, Emilie
While there is a large body of literature on the determinants of allocation of intergovernmental fiscal transfers in developed countries, this kind of study is still very limited for developing countries, especially Sub-Saharan countries. Using an original micro-level public finance panel data from [...]
Does Urban Proximity Enhance Technical Efficiency in Agriculture? Evidence from China (2010)
Does Urban Proximity Enhance Technical Efficiency in Agriculture? Evidence from China
Duvivier, Chloé
This paper assesses whether cities enhance technical efficiency of nearby rural counties, by allowing for heterogeneous urban effects both by regions and by city type. An empirical application is demonstrated using the Chinese county-level agricultural data from 2005 to 2009. Cities are found to pro [...]
Does VAT reduce the instability of tax revenues? (2011)
Does VAT reduce the instability of tax revenues?
Ebeke, Christian Hubert
In this study, we examine whether or not the adoption of value-added tax (VAT) in developing countries is an effective way of stabilising tax revenues. Using a large panel of 103 developing countries observed over 1980-2008 and several alternative estimation methods in order to deal with the self-se [...]
The Doha Round and Market Access for LDCs: Scenarios for the EU and US Markets (2009)
The Doha Round and Market Access for LDCs: Scenarios for the EU and US Markets
Carrere, Céline
It was a hope of LDCs that the DOHA round would bring them greater market access in OECD countries than for non-LDCs. Using HS-6 tariff level data for the US and the EU for 2004, this paper estimates that, once the erosion from preferential access into the EU to non-LDCs are taken into account, LDCs [...]
Domestic and cross border spillover effects of corporate tax policy in Africa (2019)
Domestic and cross border spillover effects of corporate tax policy in Africa
Brun, Jean-François
This paper examines spillover effects in corporate tax policy for African economies. Using a balanced panel data in statutory corporate income tax (CIT) rate for 34 African countries over the period 1995-2013, we find positive interaction between CIT rates in Africa only when common time trend effec [...]
What Drives Biodiversity Conservation Effort in the Developing World? An analysis for Sub-Saharan Africa
Amin, Ariane Manuela
Biodiversity conservation in low-income economies is a vital issue and hence needs to be addressed for development and poverty eradication. A variety of empirical works exist on the subject, but the focus is often limited on the search for possible causes of biodiversity erosion. Research on the "dr [...]
Ecological Fiscal Incentives and Spatial Strategic Interactions: the Case of the ICMS-E in the Brazilian state of Paraná
Sauquet, Alexandre
The ICMS-Ecológico is a fiscal transfer mechanism from states to municipalities, implemented in the early 1990's in Brazil, to reward municipalities for the creation and management of protected areas. This paper investigates the efficiency of this mechanism by testing for the presence of interaction [...]
The econometrical causal analysis of internal conflicts: The evolutions of a growing literature
Laville, Camille
EN: Internal conflict prevention calls for a better understanding of the way those events form and spread through space and time. In comparison with other social science disciplines, economics started to explore this field only very recently. Over the past 20 years and as if it was trying to make up [...]
Economic Determinants for China's Industrial SO2 Emission: Reduced vs. Structural form and the role of international trade
He, Jie
In this paper, basing on panel data on Chinese provincial level from 1991-2000, we test, firstly, the existence of EKC for industrial SO2 emission density. Following, we decompose the economical determinants of this SO2 emission density into: income effect (GDPPC), scale effect (Industrial GDP per k [...]
Economic integration and political fragmentation (2006)
Economic integration and political fragmentation
Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire
The purpose of this article is to provide an economic analysis of the relationship between economic integration and political fragmentation. This follows previous contributions from Alesina et al (2000), Casella (2001, Casella and Feinstein (2002), or Leite-Monteiro and Sato (2003). We go a step fur [...]
Economic, social, and institutional determinants of domestic conflict in fragile States (2019)
Economic, social, and institutional determinants of domestic conflict in fragile States
Rizvi, Syed Muhammad All-e-Raza
In this article, we use Fixed Effect Poisson Regression (FEPR) with robust standard errors, to study the economic, social, and institutional determinants of internal conflict in 58 fragile states over the period 2004 to 2017. We show that effective institutions (measured by judicial ef [...]
An Economic Vulnerability Index: Its Design and Use for International Development Policy (2009)
An Economic Vulnerability Index: Its Design and Use for International Development Policy
Guillaumont, Patrick
In response to the need expressed by the UN General Assembly, an economic vulnerability index (EVI) has been defined by the Committee for Development Policy. The present paper, which refers to this index, first examines how a structural economic vulnerability index can be designed for the low-income [...]
The economics of volcanoes (2020)
The economics of volcanoes
Choumert-Nkolo, Johanna
Volcanic hazards pose a potential threat to 8% of the world’s population, yet the economic literature on their short- and long-term consequences on household behavior and economic development is still in its infancy. In this article, we present the state of the literature and highlight knowledge gap [...]
Economie politique de la réforme de transition fiscale : le cas du Maroc (2007)
Economie politique de la réforme de transition fiscale : le cas du Maroc
Brun, Jean-François
L'objet de cet article est de mettre en évidence le rôle crucial dans les réformes des facteurs d'économie politique très souvent négligés dans les pays en développement mais qui, ces dernières années, ont constitué un obstacle très important aux réformes de transition fiscale. Les auteurs ont consi [...]
Education, police et criminalité : une étude de cas du Minas Gerais à l'aide d'un modèle d'équilibre général calculable
Puech, Frédéric
The aim of this paper is to study the trade-off between public expenditures in education and police in the framework of the fight against violent crime. The study uses a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) built upon the economy of Minas Gerais, a Brazilian state. Main results suggest a compa [...]
Effect of central transfers on municipalities' own revenue mobilization: Do conflict and local revenue management matter?
Brun, Jean-François
This paper analyzes the effect of the transfers from central government to municipalities on the revenue mobilization by municipalities in Côte d’Ivoire over the period 2001-2014. The analysis is based on a new carefully-constructed dataset covering the conflict and post conflict periods for 115 mun [...]
Effect of corruption on educational quantity and quality : theory and evidence (2021)
Effect of corruption on educational quantity and quality : theory and evidence
Boly, Amadou
Human capital development, through education and skill development, is instrumental for economic growth. And education and skills development require learning efforts. In the presence of corruption however, applicants have little incentive to learn as they can pass an exam or obtain a [...]
The Effect of Development Aid Unpredictability and Migrants' Remittances on Fiscal Consolidation in Developing Countries
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm
We use panel data on seventy-four developing countries for the period 1980-2007 to examine the effects of aid unpredictability and migrants' remittances on fiscal consolidation in these countries. Two definitions of fiscal adjustment are considered and a conditional logit model is used to perform th [...]
The effect of remittances prior to an election (2013)
The effect of remittances prior to an election
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances, elections, and government consumption as a percentage of GDP. We combine data from the National Elections across Democracy and Autocracy (NELDA) dataset compiled and discussed in Hyde and Marinov (2012) and the World Development Indicators [...]
The Effects of Convergence in Governance on Capital Accumulation in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Countries
Veganzones-Varoudakis, Marie-Ange
This paper aims to ascertain the effects of convergence in governance on investment decisions among a sample of 43 developing countries, using dynamic system GMM estimations. In an increasingly interdependent economic world, regions with good governance are considered to be areas of higher investmen [...]
The Effects of Financial Development on Trade Performance and the Role of Institutions (2012)
The Effects of Financial Development on Trade Performance and the Role of Institutions
Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf
This paper aims to address the empirical question of whether a country’s level of manufacturing trade is affected by its financial sector development and to investigate the role of institutions in this relationship. Countries endowed with better-developed financial systems tend to specia [...]
The effects of fiscal consolidations on the composition of government spending (2019)
The effects of fiscal consolidations on the composition of government spending
Bamba, Moulaye
In response to increasing debt paths, governments often implement fiscal consolidation programs. This paper studies the impact of these programs on the composition of government spending. System-GMM estimations performed on a sample of 53 developed and emerging countries over 1980-2011 reveal that f [...]
Effects of One-Sided Fiscal Decentralization on Environmental Efficiency of Chinese Provinces (2012)
Effects of One-Sided Fiscal Decentralization on Environmental Efficiency of Chinese Provinces
Xiong, Hang
China's actual fiscal decentralization is one-sided: while public expenditures are largely decentralized, fiscal revenues are recentralized after 1994. One critical consequence of the actual system is the creation of significant fiscal imbalances at sub-national level. This paper investigates empiri [...]
The effects of tax coordination on the tax revenue mobilization in West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)
Diakite, Maïmouna
A main objective of the regional integration in West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) is the effective harmonization of national legislations at Community level notably tax legislation. To coordinate taxation in the zone, WAEMU Commission translates into Directives the Decisions taken by [...]
Effet de la concurrence sur l'efficience bancaire en Afrique : Le cas de l'UEMOA (2012)
Effet de la concurrence sur l'efficience bancaire en Afrique : Le cas de l'UEMOA
Léon, Florian
Cet article étudie dans quelle mesure la concurrence entre les banques peut affecter leur efficience au sein de l'UEMOA. Théoriquement, l'effet net de la concurrence bancaire sur l'efficience est indéterminée, en particulier dans le cas des pays en développement. D'une part, la concurrence oblige le [...]
Effets des Chocs de Produits de Base sur la Mobilisation des Recettes Publiques dans les Pays d'Afrique Sub-saharienne
Diarra, Souleymane
Les chocs de produits de base ont fait l'objet de nombreuses études scientifiques. Les analyses se sont plutôt concentrées sur l'effet des chocs sur : la croissance économique, les dépenses publiques, le niveau de la pauvreté des ménages, etc. Cet article donne une autre dimension à l'analyse de l'e [...]
Endemic diseases and agricultural productivity: Challenges and policy response (2008)
Endemic diseases and agricultural productivity: Challenges and policy response
Audibert, Martine
Contrary to Asian countries, the agricultural sector in Africa had not benefited from the green revolution success. After a long time of disinterest in the agriculture sector in Africa, several voices arise now in favour of greater efforts towards this sector. Several studies tend to show the crucia [...]
Endogenous Discounting, Precautionary Savings and the Current Account: the Case of China (2007)
Endogenous Discounting, Precautionary Savings and the Current Account: the Case of China
Zhang, Tianding
The relationship between the current account and the macroeconomic development remains an important issue in an open economy. Recently, global current account imbalances, and more specifically the large deficit in the United States and the surplus in China and other Asian economies, continue to draw [...]
Endogenous timing game with non-monotonic reaction functions (2010)
Endogenous timing game with non-monotonic reaction functions
Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire
The aim of this paper is to generalize the endogenous timing game proposed by Hamilton and Slutsky (1990) to cases where the reaction functions are non-motononic, as for instance in the literature on contest. Following the taxonomy of social dilemma provided by Eaton (2004) we consider several pos- [...]
Endogenous Timing in General Rent‐Seeking and Conflict Models (2010)
Endogenous Timing in General Rent‐Seeking and Conflict Models
Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire
This paper examines simultaneous versus sequential choice of effort in a twoplayer contest with a general contest success function. The timing of moves, determined in a pre‐play stage prior to the contest‐subgame, as well as the value of the prize is allowed to be endogenous. Contrary to endogenous [...]
Environmental Compliance, Corruption and Governance: Theory and Evidence on Forest Stock in Developing Countries
Diarra, Gaoussou
This paper analyses the relationships between environmental compliance, corruption and environmental regulations in the case of forestry. Using a Principal-Agent model, we highlight interrelationships between firm's environmental non-compliance and corruption conditioned to the efficiency of the leg [...]
The environmental efficiency of non-certified organic farming in China: a case study of paddy rice production
Guo, Huanxiu
This case study compares the environmental efficiency of non-certified organic and conventional rice production in southern China. Using plot-season level survey data, we first test the existence of a "technology gap" between the two types of production, and then calculate the environmental efficien [...]
Environmental impacts of international trade: the case of industrial emission of Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) in Chinese provinces
He, Jie
To get better understanding on trade's impact on environment, we construct a four-equation simultaneous system, in which emission is determined by the three economic determinants: scale, composition and technical effects and directly by trade. Supposing the three economic determinants are also endog [...]
The environmental Kuznets curve for deforestation: a threatened theory? A meta-analysis (2012)
The environmental Kuznets curve for deforestation: a threatened theory? A meta-analysis
Choumert-Nkolo, Johanna
Although widely studied, deforestation remains a topical and typical issue. The relationship between economic development and deforestation is still at stake. This paper presents a meta-analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) studies for deforestation. Using 71 studies, offering 631 estimation [...]
Environmental News Emotion and Air Pollution in China (2021-11)
Environmental News Emotion and Air Pollution in China
Marchand, Sébastien
In 2013, the Chinese central government launched a war on air pollution. As a new and major source of information, the Internet plays an important role in diffusing environmental news emotion and shaping people's perceptions and emotions regarding the pollution. How could the governmen [...]
Environnement institutionnel, modes organisationnels et performances productives : Une analyse empirique avec les données des grandes fermes moldaves au début de la transition
Borodak, Daniela
L'analyse empirique des relations entre l'environnement institutionnel et les modes organisationnels et leurs influences sur les performances productives reste relativement rare dans la littérature, faute de données. Cet article essaie de développer une méthodologie empirique permettant d'apporter u [...]
Errors in Variables and the Empirics of Economic Growth (2005)
Errors in Variables and the Empirics of Economic Growth
Arcand, Jean-Louis
We examine cross-sectional empirical evidence on the determinants of economic growth in light of an instrumental variables estimator, based on sample moments of order higher than two, which does not require extraneous instruments and which remains consistent, under quite reasonable assumptions, when [...]
Estimating Chinese Interprovincial OutPut Spillovers with Provincial Input-Output Tables (2010)
Estimating Chinese Interprovincial OutPut Spillovers with Provincial Input-Output Tables
He, Yong
This paper aims at estimating productivity improvement of Chinese 17 relatively backward provinces in manufactures through importing manufactured intermediates from advanced provinces on the basis of just published 2002 national and provincial input-output tables. As Chinese regional inequality rema [...]
Estimating and explaining the efficiency of township hospitals in Shandong province in the context of the drug policy reform
Petitfour, Laurene
To cope with the rising price of drugs, in 2009 the Chinese government launched a large pharmaceutical reform. Its key element is the implementation of a National Essential Medicine List, leading to a reorientation of incentives for health services providers. Health facilities are not anymore allowe [...]
Estimating Vulnerability to Poverty using Panel data: Evidence from Indonesia (2013)
Estimating Vulnerability to Poverty using Panel data: Evidence from Indonesia
Bah, Adama
Traditional poverty measures fail to indicate the degree of risk of becoming or remaining poor that households are confronted to. They can therefore be misleading in the context of implementing poverty reduction policies. In this paper I propose a method to estimate an index of ex ante vulnerability [...]
Ethnic Diversity and the Efficiency of Public Spending in Developing Countries (2015)
Ethnic Diversity and the Efficiency of Public Spending in Developing Countries
Yogo, Thierry Urbain
This paper examines the effect of ethnic diversity on the efficiency of public spending in a set of developing countries. For this purpose, we use Data Envelopment Analysis to assess the efficiency of public spending in the sectors of health, education and infrastructure in 77 developing countries o [...]
The European Crisis and Migration to Germany: Expectations and the Diversion of Migration Flows
Bertoli, Simone
The European crisis has diverted migration flows away from countries affected by the recession towards Germany. The diversion process creates a challenge for traditional discrete-choice models that assume that only bilateral factors account for dyadic migration rates. This paper shows how taking int [...]
Evaluating Treatment Effect and Causal Effect of Fiscal Rules on Procyclicality New assessments on old debate: rules vs. discretion
Mandon, Pierre
This article is the first to renews the old debate of "rules versus. discretion" by introducing propensity score matching methods in macro analysis, such as Tapsoba (2012), and by using instrumental methods, to consider the national stability culture. By taking into account, at the same time, the se [...]
EVI and its Use. Design of an Economic Vulnerability Index and its Use for International Development Policy
Guillaumont, Patrick
As an answer to a need expressed by the UN General Assembly an Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) has been defined by the Committee for Development Policy. The present paper, which refers to this index, first examines how a structural economic vulnerability index can be designed, in particular for l [...]
Exchange Rate Undervaluation to Foster Manufactured Exports: A Deliberate Strategy? (2010)
Exchange Rate Undervaluation to Foster Manufactured Exports: A Deliberate Strategy?
Plane, Patrick
Recent literature suggests that a proactive strategy consisting of deliberate real exchange rate depreciation can promote exports diversification and growth. This paper is built on these recent developments and investigates whether four developing countries have adopted such a strategy. Data from Eg [...]
Exchange Rate Undervaluation and Manufactured Exports: A Deliberate Strategy? (2011)
Exchange Rate Undervaluation and Manufactured Exports: A Deliberate Strategy?
Nouira, Ridha
Recent literature suggests that a proactive exchange rate policy in accordance with price incentives (i.e. undervaluation) can foster manufactured exports and growth. This paper is built on these recent developments and investigates, using a sample of 52 developing countries, whether such a proactiv [...]
Expanding Social Health Protection in Cambodia: An assessment of the current coverage potential and gaps, and social equity considerations
Kolesar, Robert John
The Government of Cambodia recently launched its National Social Protection Policy Framework to strengthen and expand its social protection system. To inform the future direction of social health protection policy in Cambodia we examine the 2016 Cambodia Socio-economic survey to assess the current c [...]
Explaining Productivity Differentials in Eastern European Agriculture: Efficiency or Class Structure ?
Arcand, Jean-Louis
This paper considers whether it is differences in technical efficiency or differences in factor endowments that explain productivity differentials in Moldovan agriculture. We compute non-parametric measures of technical efficiency for a sample of Moldovan small-holders using the four-step Data Envel [...]
Explaining Trade Flows: Traditional and New Determinants of Trade Patterns (2007)
Explaining Trade Flows: Traditional and New Determinants of Trade Patterns
Gourdon, Julien
An empirical tradition in international trade seeks to establish whether the predictions of factor abundance theory match with the data. The relation between factor endowments and trade in goods (commodity version of Hecksher-Ohlin) provide mildly encouraging empirical results. But in the analysis o [...]
Exploring the Nature of Strategic Interactions in the Ratification Process of the Kyoto Protocol
Sauquet, Alexandre
Do countries interact when they decide whether or not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol? If so, what is the nature of these interactions? To answer these questions, we provide a theoretical analysis based on the notions of strategic substitutability and strategic complementarity. Firstly, we analyze the [...]
Export Activity and Productivity: New Evidence from the Egyptian Manufacturing Industry (2012)
Export Activity and Productivity: New Evidence from the Egyptian Manufacturing Industry
Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf
This study explores the relationship between exports and productivity using a panel dataset of Egyptian manufacturing firms. Most previous studies using data from more developed countries suggest that exporters are more productive than non-exporters because the more productive firms self-select into [...]
Export Diversification:What's behind the Hump? (2007)
Export Diversification:What's behind the Hump?
Cadot, Olivier
The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large database with 159 countries over 17 years at the HS6 level of disaggregation (4'998 product lines) we look for action at the “intensive” and “extensive” margins (diversification of [...]
Export Diversification: What's behind the Hump? (2009)
Export Diversification: What's behind the Hump?
Cadot, Olivier
The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large database with 156 countries over 19 years at the HS6 level of disaggregation (4'991 product lines) we look for action at the “intensive” and “extensive” margins (diversification of [...]
External and Internal Real Exchange Rates and the Dutch Disease in Africa: Evidence from a Panel of Nine Oil-Exporting Countries
Mien, Edouard
Despite a large number of empirical studies on Dutch disease in developing countries and the evidence that oil revenues tend to appreciate the real exchange rate, there remains little discussion about the definition of real exchange rates. This article intends to fill this gap by using [...]
Farmland Rental Values in GM Soybean Areas of Argentina: Do Contractual Arrangements Matter? (2015)
Farmland Rental Values in GM Soybean Areas of Argentina: Do Contractual Arrangements Matter?
Choumert-Nkolo, Johanna
We study the determinants of rental prices of farmland in the Argentinean Pampas. In particular, we examine the value of lease contract characteristics within a hedonic price framework, while controlling for other potential sources of variation. Using first-hand data for 255 parcels, our results ind [...]
FDI convergence and Spatial Dependence between Chinese Provinces (2005)
FDI convergence and Spatial Dependence between Chinese Provinces
Ary Tanimoune, Nasser
This study aims at investigating the spatial dimension of the FDI. Considering the distribution of FDI between the provinces, our purpose is the spatial dependency that may be observed. Using data for 1992-2002, we find that taking into account the regional specification induces significant FDI conv [...]
Fertility response to climate shocks (2019)
Fertility response to climate shocks
Dessy, Sylvain
In communities highly dependent on rainfed agriculture for their livelihoods, the common oc-currence of climatic shocks such as droughts can lower the opportunity cost of having children, and raise fertility. Using longitudinal household data from Madagascar, we estimate the causal effect of drought [...]
Fighting Inflation Within the Dollarization Context: The Case of Vietnam (2005)
Fighting Inflation Within the Dollarization Context: The Case of Vietnam
Goujon, Michaël
During the transition towards a market economy, the Vietnamese economy has embarked upon a path of lasting disinflation in a context of dollarization. In this study, a model shedding light on the determinants of inflation in the case of dollarization is developed and estimated with a two-step proced [...]
Fighting the soaring prices of agricultural food products. VAT versus Trade tariffs exemptions in a context of imperfect competition in Niger : CGE and micro-simulation approach
De Quatrebarbes, Celine
As happened in West Africa in 2008, in an imported inflation context, it is common for the governments to take short-term tax action to protect the poor: VAT or trade tariffs exemptions. As part of the tax-tariff transition, the comparison between Trade tariffs and VAT has already been [...]
La fin des exonérations de TVA est-elle favorable aux pauvres ? Le cas du Niger (2010)
La fin des exonérations de TVA est-elle favorable aux pauvres ? Le cas du Niger
De Quatrebarbes, Celine
Afin de disposer des ressources publiques nécessaires à son développement, le Niger étudie la possibilité d'élargir l'assiette fiscale de la TVA aux biens exonérés et aux biens d'alimentations de base. Cette proposition a provoqué des oppositions violentes conduisant à poser la question des impacts [...]
Financial Development, Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth: Evidence from China (2006)
Financial Development, Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth: Evidence from China
Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane
Financial development may lead to productivity improvement in developing countries. In this paper, based on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach, we use the Malmquist index to measure China's total factor productivity change and its two components (i.e., efficiency change and technical progr [...]
Financial Development, Financial Instability and Poverty (2006)
Financial Development, Financial Instability and Poverty
Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane
This article investigates how financial development is beneficial to the reduction of poverty, on the one hand by promoting growth and in the other hand directly by the McKinnon conduit effect. At the same time, however, financial instability which accompanies financial development is detrimental to [...]
Financial Factors and Manufacturing Exports:Theory and Firm-level Evidence From Egypt (2012)
Financial Factors and Manufacturing Exports:Theory and Firm-level Evidence From Egypt
Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf
This paper focuses on the effects of financial factors on manufacturing firms' export participation. Using a simple dynamic discrete choice model, we first present the intuition according to which financial constraints reduce the probability of exporting. Then, based on a panel of Egyptian manufactu [...]
Financial Sector Competition in West African Economic and Monetary Union (2012)
Financial Sector Competition in West African Economic and Monetary Union
Léon, Florian
This paper investigates the degree of competition in the WAEMU financial industry over the period 2002-2007 using firm-level data (591 year-firm observations). Market structure analysis, the Panzar-Rosse model and conjectural variation are applied to assess the level of competition. The results show [...]
How Financial Sector Development Improve Tax Revenue Mobilization for Developing Countries? (2021)
How Financial Sector Development Improve Tax Revenue Mobilization for Developing Countries?
Lompo, Aguima Aimé Bernard
This study examines the effect of financial development on tax revenue mobilization in developing countries. Our empirical analysis uses the aggregate financial index that comprises the banking system's depth (size and activity), access, and efficiency of financial institutions and fin [...]
Financial Vulnerability and Export Dynamics (2015)
Financial Vulnerability and Export Dynamics
Jaud, Mélise
This study documents the implications of financial vulnerability for export diversification in developing economies. Financial crises, by increasing the incidence of sunk costs of entry into exporting, reduce firm export dynamics. Financially-vulnerable exporters are not able to fully realize econom [...]
Financing the economy in debt times: the crucial role of public-private partnerships (2022-01)
Financing the economy in debt times: the crucial role of public-private partnerships
Amedanou, Yawovi Mawussé Isaac
This paper aims to show that there is a great interest for countries to rely on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a tool for financing the economy, especially in times of debt. First, we conceptualize through game theory a better risk management between the public and private secto [...]
Finding the Best Indicators to Identify the Poor (2013)
Finding the Best Indicators to Identify the Poor
Bah, Adama
Proxy-means testing (PMT) is a method used to assess household or individual welfare level based on a set of observable indicators. The accuracy, and therefore usefulness of PMT relies on the selection of indicators that produce accurate predictions of household welfare. In this paper I propose a me [...]
Firm-Level Productivity and Technical Efficiency in MENA Manufacturing Industry: The Role of the Investment Climate
Kinda, Tidiane
This paper investigates the relationship between firm-level productivity and investment climate (IC) for a large number of countries (23) and manufacturing industries (8). We first propose three measures of firms' productive performances: Labor Productivity (LP), Total Factor Productivity (TFP), and [...]
Firm Productivity and Investment Climate in Developing Countries: How Does Middle East and North Africa Manufacturing Perform?
Plane, Patrick
Firm productive performances in five Middle East and North African (MENA) economies and eight manufacturing industries are compared to those in 17 other developing countries. Although the broad picture hides some heterogeneity, enterprises in MENA often performed inadequately compared to MENA status [...]
Fiscal Policy Space and Economic Performance: Some Stylized Facts (2007)
Fiscal Policy Space and Economic Performance: Some Stylized Facts
Carrere, Céline
This paper complements the cross-country approach by examining the correlates of GDP per capita growth acceleration around “significant” public expenditure episodes by reorganizing the data around turning points, or “events”. Here we define (i) a growth event as an increase in average per capita gro [...]
Food Price Shocks and Government Expenditure Composition: Evidence from African Countries (2017)
Food Price Shocks and Government Expenditure Composition: Evidence from African Countries
Meyimdjui, Carine
The delicacy of socio-political consequences during the recent commodities’ prices spikes has given rise to stabilising measures that might have had repercussions on public policy alternatives. This effect may be worrying for developing countries, which because of the importance of the share of impo [...]
Are Foreign Aid and Remittances a Hedge against Food Price Shocks in Developing Countries? (2011)
Are Foreign Aid and Remittances a Hedge against Food Price Shocks in Developing Countries?
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper measures the effects of food price shocks on both the level of household consumption per capita and the instability of the household consumption per capita growth rate in developing countries. In this vein, the paper explores the role of aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the [...]
Foreign Direct Investment across China: what should we learn from spatial dependences? (2013)
Foreign Direct Investment across China: what should we learn from spatial dependences?
Ary Tanimoune, Nasser
The paper investigates the importance of spatial dependences on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) localization across Chinese provinces over the 1992-2009. Based on exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial sigma-convergence and spatial Durbin specifications, we present a much clearer picture of FDI [...]
Forest spirits. What we know -and don't know -about the effectiveness of policies against deforestation
Niel, Bénédicte
Most recent studies addressing the effectiveness of policies aiming at combatting deforestation produce mixed results, showing no consistency between a certain policy design and its success in preventing or deterring deforestation. Hence, why anti-deforestation policies succeed or not remains unclea [...]
Forms of Democracies and Financial Development (2015)
Forms of Democracies and Financial Development
Mandon, Pierre
The political economy of finance literature emphasizes the critical role of political institutions in promoting financial development. Related empirical findings highlight a robust positive effect of democratic regimes on financial development compared to dictatorships. However, no study focused so [...]
Forms of Democracies and Financial Development (2014)
Forms of Democracies and Financial Development
Mandon, Pierre
The empirical literature on the political economy of finance emphasizes the importance of political institutions as crucial determinants of financial development and shows that democratic regimes are positively and robustly correlated with financial development. By using a three years periodic panel [...]
Gender gap in public good preferences in Africa: Do gender norms matter? (2019)
Gender gap in public good preferences in Africa: Do gender norms matter?
Ndiaye, Oulimata
I present new evidence on how norms and traditions can affect women’s public good preferences in Africa. A substantial literature has examined the determinants of gender differences in political attitudes. Existing work has found a gender gap in public good preferences. However, there are few attemp [...]
How giant discoveries of natural resources impact sovereign debt ratings in developing and emerging countries ?
Séri, Regina
This paper sheds light on the effects of giant discoveries of natural resources (oil natural gas, minerals) on sovereign debt ratings in the short and long run. To do so, it employs 28 developing and emerging countries over the period 1990-2014 and applies a random effect ordered Probi [...]
Global burden of disease and economic growth (2012)
Global burden of disease and economic growth
Audibert, Martine
Relationships between health and economic prosperity or economic growth are difficult to assess. The direction of the causality is often questioned and the subject of a vigorous debate. For some authors, diseases or poor health had contributed to poor growth performances especially in low-income cou [...]
Global Burden of Disease and Economic Growth (2010)
Global Burden of Disease and Economic Growth
Audibert, Martine
Relationships between health and economic prosperity or economic growth are difficult to assess. The direction of the causality is often questioned and the subject of a vigorous debate. For some authors, diseases or poor health had contributed to poor growth performances especially in low-income cou [...]
Is GM Soybean Cultivation in Argentina Sustainable? (2016)
Is GM Soybean Cultivation in Argentina Sustainable?
Choumert-Nkolo, Johanna
This paper explores the long term sustainability of Argentina’s specialization in genetically modified soybean cultivation. It is conceived as an evidence-based assessment of the most relevant economic, social, and environmental, implications of the “soybeanization” of Argentinian agri [...]
Going beyond analysis of internal data to support customs modernization: A case study in Gabon
Cariolle, Joel
Customs administrations in developing countries increasingly use risk-based techniques relying on data mining and statistical scoring. By demonstrating the value of using data analysis techniques to orient frontline controls so as to facilitate legal trade and combat fraud more effectively, these pr [...]
Governance and Private Investment in the Middle East and North Africa (2006)
Governance and Private Investment in the Middle East and North Africa
Aysan, Ahmet Faruk
This paper addresses the issue of the low level of private investment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, with special emphasis on the role of governance. Based on the existing literature, we have categorized what types of governance institutions are more detrimental to entrepreneuria [...]
Government spending and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa: A panel VAR analysis (2018)
Government spending and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa: A panel VAR analysis
Traoré, Mohamed
This paper assesses the effects of government expenditure components on both equity and growth, especially whether it is possible to design public spending to promote a more equitable society without sacrificing economic growth. We employ a panel VAR technique to use a large annual dataset on 10 sub [...]
Are grain markets in Niger driven by speculation? (2011)
Are grain markets in Niger driven by speculation?
Araujo Bonjean, Catherine
Over the last two decades, millet prices in Niger have enjoyed periods of spectacular increase during which they seem to go well above their fundamental value. These episodes of price bursts followed by rapid reversals could be attributed to the presence of rational speculative bubbles. Considering [...]
Have unequal treaties fostered domestic market integration in Late Imperial China ? (2020)
Have unequal treaties fostered domestic market integration in Late Imperial China ?
Combes, Jean-Louis
The objective of the paper is to study the relationship between international trade openness and domestic market integration in Late Imperial China. More specifically, we focus on a natural experiment namely the Unequal Treaties of the second half of the nineteenth century that lifted [...]
Health capital depreciation effects on development: theory and measurement (2013)
Health capital depreciation effects on development: theory and measurement
Audibert, Martine
Relationships between health and economic prosperity or economic growth are difficult to assess. The direction of the causality is often questioned and the subject of a vigorous debate. For some authors, diseases or poor health had contributed to poor growth performances especially in low-income cou [...]
Health Insurance Reform and Efficiency of Township Hospitals in Rural China: An Analysis from Survey Data
Audibert, Martine
In the rural health-care organization of China, township hospitals ensure the delivery of basic medical services. Particularly damaged by the economic reforms implemented from 1975 to the end of the 1990s, township hospitals efficiency is questioned, mainly with the implementation since 2003 of the [...]
Heterogeneous Aid Effects on Tax Revenues: Accounting for Government Stability in WAEMU Countries
Yohou, Djedje Hermann
We examine the heterogeneous effects due to government stability of foreign aid on tax revenues in the West African Economic and Monetary Union countries over the period 1986-2010. We show that the tax effects of aid are gradual and varying across countries according to the level of government stabi [...]
Is High Public Debt Always Harmful to Economic Growth? Reinhart and Rogoff and some complex nonlinearities
Minea, Alexandru
In their already-famous 2010 article "Growth-in-a-Time-of-Debt" (AER-100(2)-pp.-573-78), Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff show that average post-WW2 economic growth is dramatically declining in advanced economies, once the debt-to-GDP ratio is above a 90% threshold. We explore the relevance of thi [...]
Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis: Evidences from Deforestation (2010)
Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis: Evidences from Deforestation
Marchand, Sébastien
This paper investigates if past institutional, economic, political, social, and cultural features (i.e legal origins on law and regulations and colonial legacies) interact in shaping the current institutional performances on deforestation in 116 developed and developing countries. A two step approac [...]
Human capital productivity and uncertainty (2015)
Human capital productivity and uncertainty
Azomahou, Theophile
Several policies or interventions have been implemented in developing countries with theultimate goal of improving educational outcomes and human capital. While lots of empiricalstudies have pointed to mixed results of these interventions, the role of uncertainty arisingfrom the state of the nature [...]
Are ICT's boosting tax revenues? Evidence from developing countries (2020-10-27)
Are ICT's boosting tax revenues? Evidence from developing countries
Brun, Jean-François
This paper investigates the effect of ICT readiness and ICT usage on tax revenue mobilization in developing countries. The paper uses a panel fixed effect methodology on a sample of 96 developing countries from 2005 to 2016. We provide evidences that although ICT readiness affects posi [...]
IMF programs and tax effort What role for institutions in Africa? (2010)
IMF programs and tax effort What role for institutions in Africa?
Brun, Jean-François
When compared to other developing countries, most Sub-Saharan African countries are characterized by a disappointing level of development. Among the factors explaining this poor performance, the inadequate supply of public goods is often advocated. This inadequate supply is due either to poor effici [...]
Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries 1986-2006 (2016)
Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries 1986-2006
Boubtane, Ekrame
This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native - and foreign - born populations by skill level. Specifically, af [...]
Immigration et croissance économique en France entre 1994 et 2008 (2013)
Immigration et croissance économique en France entre 1994 et 2008
D'Albis, Hippolyte
Cet article propose une évaluation quantitative des interactions entre d'une part, le Produit Intérieur Brut (PIB) par habitant et le taux de chômage, et d'autre part, l'immigration permanente en France métropolitaine sur la période 1994-2008. L'immigration est mesurée par les titres de séjour de pl [...]
Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries (2013)
Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries
Boubtane, Ekrame
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ a panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the endoge [...]
Immigration Policy and Macroeconomic Performance in France (2015)
Immigration Policy and Macroeconomic Performance in France
Boubtane, Ekrame
This paper quantitatively assesses the interaction between permanent immigration into France and France's macroeconomic performance as seen through its GDP per capita and its unemployment rate. It takes advantage of a new database where immigration is measured by the flow of newly- issued long-term [...]
Immigration, unemployment and GDP in the host country: Bootstrap panel Granger causality analysis on OECD countries
Boubtane, Ekrame
This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the panel Granger causality testing approach of Konya (2006) that is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. This approach [...]
Immigration, unemployment and GDP in the host country: Bootstrap panel Granger causality analysis on OECD countries
Boubtane, Ekrame
This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the panel Granger causality testing approach of Konya (2006) that is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. This approach [...]
The impact of Chinese competition on Africa’s manufacturing (2015)
The impact of Chinese competition on Africa’s manufacturing
Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane
In this paper, the impact of Chinese competition on Africa’s manufacturing value added isanalyzed through a model of manufacturing. Using panel data on 44 African countriescovering the period 2000 to 2013, and controlling for the usual determinants ofindustrialization – such as the size of the domes [...]
Impact of climate related shocks on child's health in Burkina Faso (2012)
Impact of climate related shocks on child's health in Burkina Faso
Araujo Bonjean, Catherine
The aim of this paper is to estimate the impact of weather related income shocks on child health in rural Burkina Faso where rain fed agriculture is the dominant production system. We combine health data originating from the 2008 household survey with meteorological data to define shocks at the chil [...]
Impact and Efficiency of the Integration of Diagnosis and Treatment of Pneumonia in Malaria Community Case Management in Madagascar
Razakamanana, Marilys Victoire
In Madagascar, in February 2014, the Ministry of Health and UNICEF implemented a program integrating the diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia into malaria community case management. The objectives of this program were to improve the management of cases of malaria and pneumonia by community health wo [...]
Impact Evaluation in a Landscape: Protected Natural Forests, Anthropized Forested Lands and Deforestation Leakages in Madagascar's Rainforests
Desbureaux, Sébastien
This paper analyzes deforestation leakages from natural rainforests to anthropized habitats following the creation of Protected Areas in Madagascar. A simple theoretical framework highlights that a conservation constraint does not necessarily create deforestation leakages on secondary forests. An or [...]
The impact of high and volatile commodity prices on public finances: Evidence from developing countries
Guérineau, Samuel
The recent boom and bust in commodity prices has renewed the policymakers' interest in three complementary issues: i) characteristics and determinants of commodity price instability, ii) its macroeconomic effects and, iii) the optimal policy responses to this instability. This work falls within the [...]
Impact of Income Inequality on Health: Does Environment Quality Matter? (2010)
Impact of Income Inequality on Health: Does Environment Quality Matter?
Drabo, Alassane
This paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables and income inequalities. Theoretically, all the mechanisms developed in the literature underline a negative impact of income inequality on health status. However, empirical studies find different results and the conclusi [...]
Impact de l'accroissement du prix des produits pétroliers sur la distribution des revenus au Mali
Kpodar, Kangni
Cet article étudie les effets d'une augmentation des prix des produits pétroliers sur la distribution des revenus au Mali en utilisant une analyse micro-macro basée sur la combinaison de données d'enquête-ménages et d'une matrice input-output. Les résultats montrent que, parmi les produits pétrolier [...]
Impact de la rente pétrolière sur la demande des pays frontaliers du Cameroun (2014)
Impact de la rente pétrolière sur la demande des pays frontaliers du Cameroun
Ntsama Etoundi, Sabine Mireille
Ce papier examine l’effet des augmentations de la rente pétrolière dans les pays voisins du Cameroun, sur la demande d’exportations de produits alimentaires en provenance du Cameroun. En utilisant le modèle de gravité de commerce sur données de panel, il ressort que les ressources pétrolières des p [...]
Impact of natural resource wealth on non-resource tax revenue mobilization in Africa: Do institutions and economic diversification matter?
Coulibaly, Seydou
This paper estimates the impact of natural resources rents on non-resource tax revenue mobilization. Regressions are carried out using the Panel Smooth Transition Regression model for 29 African countries over the period 1995-2012. The empirical results indicate that while natural resource rents alo [...]
The Impact of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme on Activities and Financing of Township Hospitals in Weifang, China
Huang, Xiao Xian
Since 2003, the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme is gradually implemented in China, in order first, to increase access of the poor to health services, reduce out-of-pocket expenditures and avoid catastrophic health expenditures and second to re-oriented patient to township hospitals. The paper e [...]
Impact des plateformes multifonctionnelles sur l’activité économique des femmes et l’éducation des enfants au Mali
Araujo Bonjean, Catherine
Initié au Mali dans les années 1990 avec le soutien du PNUD, le programme plateformes multifonctionnelles (PTFM) vise à lutter contre la pauvreté en développant l’offre énergétique en milieu rural. L’énergie fournie par un moteur diesel sert essentiellement à transformer les produits agricoles, acti [...]
The Impact of Protected Areas on Deforestation: An Exploration of the Economic and Political Channels for Madagascar’s Rainforests (2001-12)
Desbureaux, Sébastien
Protected areas (PAs) remain the primary conservation instrument of Madagascar’s unique but threatened biodiversity. We combine matching and panel regressions in a quasi-natural experiment setting to analyze PAs’ environmental effectiveness annually between 2001 and 2012 and study two channels that [...]
Impact of Rising World Rice Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Burkina Faso (2012)
Impact of Rising World Rice Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Burkina Faso
Badolo, Félix
Between January 2006 and April 2008, the prices of most of the agricultural products considerably rose in international markets. Empirical studies show that this spike in world food prices has increased the number of poor households in developing countries, but the magnitude is not the same in all c [...]
The impact of water and sanitation access on housing values: The case of Dapaong, Togo (2014)
The impact of water and sanitation access on housing values: The case of Dapaong, Togo
Choumert-Nkolo, Johanna
The international community has made a commitment that aims to halve, by 2015, the number of people without access to safe drinking water and hygienic sanitation systems. In Togo, the government struggles to provide the population with access to water and sanitation, despite a proactive policy. We a [...]
The impact of world price instability on agricultural supply according to several macroeconomic factors
Subervie, Julie
This paper aims at analyzing the effect of world price instability on the aggregate agricultural supply of developing countries and determining to what extent this effect depends on the macroeconomic environment. Producers of agricultural commodity-exporting countries are particularly vulnerable to [...]
Impacts of extreme events on technical efficiency in Vietnamese agriculture (2019)
Impacts of extreme events on technical efficiency in Vietnamese agriculture
Diallo, Yoro
The aim of this study is to examine farm household-level impacts of weather extreme events on Vietnamese rice technical efficiency. Vietnam is considered among the most vulnerable countries to climate change, and the Vietnamese economy is highly dependent on rice production that is strongly affected [...]
Implementing Tax Coordination and Harmonization through Voluntary Commitment (2016)
Implementing Tax Coordination and Harmonization through Voluntary Commitment
Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire
Pareto-improving tax coordination, and even tax harmonization, are Nash implementable between sovereign countries without any supranational tax authorities. Following Schelling's approach, we consider voluntary commitment, which constrains countries' respective tax rate choices. We develop a commitm [...]
Importing under trade policy uncertainty: Evidence from China (2018)
Importing under trade policy uncertainty: Evidence from China
Imbruno, Michele
This paper empirically explores imports’ adjustment to reductions in trade policy uncertainty (TPU) considering that firms may face large sunk costs to purchase foreign goods. We investigate how product-level Chinese imports react to tariff binding connected to China’s accession to WTO, through dist [...]
The Incentive Effects of Conditional and Unconditional Transfers on Local Own Revenue Generation: Empirical Evidence from Moroccan Municipalities
Brun, Jean-François
The fiscal incentives literature emphasizes how the design of transfer systems has a significant implication on the behavior of local governments within decentralized systems. The empirical findings on the relationship between intergovernmental transfers and the incentives they create for local reve [...]
Income Growth, Price Variation and Health Care Demand: A Mixed Logit Model Applied to Tow-period Comparison in Rural China
Audibert, Martine
1989-2006 is a period of the start and the end of deregulation of Chinese health care sector and of disintegration of rural cooperative insurance system. During this period, the government health policy has turned healthcare providers all alike into profit seeking entities. Face to perverse effects, [...]
Are incomes and property taxes effective instruments for tax transition? (2020-12)
Are incomes and property taxes effective instruments for tax transition?
Adandohoin, Kodjo
This paper investigates second wave tax transition (transfer of tax pressure from border taxation towards domestic taxation) concerns in developing countries. It essentially focuses on the compensation effects of incomes and property taxes over international trade tax revenue losses in [...]
Inégalités et soutenabilité de la croissance chinoise (2006)
Inégalités et soutenabilité de la croissance chinoise
Renard, Mary-Françoise
Le remarquable taux de croissance de l'économie chinoise lui a permis d'être sans doute l'un des rares pays en voie de développement à se situer dans une logique de rattrapage par rapport aux pays développés. Elle a ainsi pu faire fortement diminuer la grande pauvreté et les réformes économiques ont [...]
Inequalities and vulnerabilities in New-Caledonia (2018)
Inequalities and vulnerabilities in New-Caledonia
Goujon, Michaël
This short note recalls the debated conclusions of the literature on the impact of decolonization for small islands. It also presents an overview of compared performances of New-Caledonia in terms of human development and inequalities. It concludes with some thoughts on the vulnerability of New-Cale [...]
Inflation Targeting and Fiscal Rules: Do Interactions and Sequence of Adoption Matter? (2012)
Inflation Targeting and Fiscal Rules: Do Interactions and Sequence of Adoption Matter?
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper analyzes the effects of Inflation Targeting (IT) and Fiscal Rules (FR) on fiscal behaviors and inflation dynamics. Its main novelty is twofold: first, it is the first study which accounts explicitly for the role of the interactions between IT and FR regarding their fiscal and inflationary [...]
Initial reforms and dynamics of transition (2012)
Initial reforms and dynamics of transition
Tichit, Ariane
This article analyses the impact on the labor market of the transition from a state-controlled economy towards a market economy. We consider a dynamic matching-model with a declining and an emerging competitive sector. We show that there are two opposite strategies in the move towards a market econo [...]
Innovation, productivity, exports and the investment climate: A study based on Indian manufacturing firm-level data
Plane, Patrick
We study the interactions between firm-level innovation, productivity and exports in the case of the Indian manufacturing sector. To differentiate the incentives to innovate from the ability to innovate, we distinguish the inputs of innovation (R&D and training), from the outputs. Our findings highl [...]
When instability increases the effectiveness of aid projects (2006)
When instability increases the effectiveness of aid projects
Guillaumont, Patrick
This paper assesses the effect of economic instability on the success of the projects funded by the World Bank, using the outcome of the projects, which is a notation of their overall success determined by the Independent Evaluation Group. It has been argued in macro economic studies that aid effect [...]
Institutional and political drivers for copper government take: new evidence for African and Latin American countries
Amedanou, Yawovi Mawussé Isaac
Our study addresses the issue of rent sharing and its determinants for the copper-producing countries in Africa and Latin America, which are among the world's leading copper producers. We use an original database to construct our mining tax policy indicator, the average effective tax r [...]
Intergenerational Mobility in China (2007)
Intergenerational Mobility in China
Labar, Kelly
In this paper, I study the intergenerational mobility of education and income in China. Using the CHNS database which gives information on parental educational attainment and income level, I show that there is a relatively high intergenerational mobility in China, compared to other developed and dev [...]
Interrelationships between Health, Environment Quality and Economic Activity: What Consequences for Economic Convergence
Drabo, Alassane
This paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables and economic development, and the consequences of this relationship on economic convergence for a large sample of rich and poor countries. While in economic literature income and environment are seen to have an inverted- [...]
Is introducing rapid culture in the diagnostic algorithm of smear-negative tuberculosis cost-effective?
Yakhelef, Nadia
Setting: In 2007, WHO recommended introducing rapid Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) culture in the diagnostic algorithm of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (TB).
Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of the introduction of rapid non-commercial culture method (Thin Layer A [...]
Investment climate, outward orientation and manufacturing firm productivity: New empirical evidence
Nguyen, Mai
Drawing on the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES), we revisit the link between investment climate and firm productive performance for a panel of enterprises surveyed twice in 70 developing countries and 11 manufacturing industries. We take advantage of the surveys done at different times in an inc [...]
Issues and Challenges of Measurement of Health:Implications for Economic Research (2009)
Issues and Challenges of Measurement of Health:Implications for Economic Research
Audibert, Martine
According to the human capital theory, health is a determinant of the economic development and should play a role in the fight against poverty. On the other side, the economic growth, by supplying better sanitation, water quality and hygiene, better education and income, may improve population's hea [...]
L'accès à des services énergétiques réduit-il la malnutrition des enfants au Sénégal ? Evaluation du programme des plateformes multifonctionnelles
Buisson, Marie-Charlotte
Le programme de plateformes multifonctionnelles (PTF) vise à favoriser l'accès à l'énergie dans les villages ruraux sénégalais. En proposant notamment des services de mouture et de broyage, le programme s'adresse d'abord aux femmes. Il s'agit ici d'évaluer l'impact du programme à partir des données [...]
L'effet des politiques sociales sur l'emploi des nouveaux immigrants à Montréal :une analyse longitudinale et conjoncturelle
Zhu, Nong
La question de l'insertion sur le marché du travail des immigrants est aujourd'hui devenue essentielle. Les dispositifs mis en place au Canada cherchent à favoriser la réarticulation entre immigration, marché du travail, protection sociale, formation et cohésion sociale. Cet article étudie l'inserti [...]
L’impact à court terme de la crise Covid19 sur l’industrie manufacturière en Afrique: évaluations d’experts africains
Goujon, Michaël
The purpose of this document is to provide more details on a survey conducted among African experts during April and May, the main results of which being published in September in a paper in the journal Secteur Privé et Développement (Goujon et Mien, 2020) and relayed by Jeune Afrique. [...]
L'impact des aides américaines et européennes sur le marché du coton : résultats d'un modèle d'équilibre partiel dynamique
Araujo Bonjean, Catherine
L'objectif est d'évaluer l'impact des subventions américaines et européennes sur le marché international du coton à partir d'un modèle d'équilibre partiel dynamique. L'originalité de ce travail est de prendre en compte de façon détaillée les différentes mesures d'aides et, notamment, le nouveau disp [...]
L'indice de développement humain : une évaluation rétrospective pour La Réunion (1985-2005) (2009)
L'indice de développement humain : une évaluation rétrospective pour La Réunion (1985-2005)
Goujon, Michaël
This paper aims at assessing the level of Human Development Index for La Réunion for the years 1985, 1990 and 1995-2005. It appears that the region experienced a significant progress of human development during this period. However, the gap between La Réunion and France is persistent in the three di [...]
L'utilisation de variables explicatives estimées dans les régressions économétriques (2008)
L'utilisation de variables explicatives estimées dans les régressions économétriques
Goujon, Michaël
Cette note a pour objet de rappeler certains résultats de la littérature sur les problèmes posés par l'introduction dans une régression économétrique de variables explicatives qui ont été précédemment estimées à partir d'une équation auxiliaire en première étape. Les indicateurs de politique économi [...]
La Blockchain, avenir des monnaies locales ? (2022-04-01)
La Blockchain, avenir des monnaies locales ?
Tichit, Ariane
The process of dematerialization of local currencies and the rapid diffusion of the blockchain have generated a question: its application to local currencies. This article contributes to this reflexion. After having clarified what a blockchain really is, the advantages of its use and t [...]
La décentralisation dans les pays en développement : une revue de la littérature - Decentralization in developing countries: A literature review
Caldeira, Emilie
Cet article propose une revue de la littérature consacrée à la décentralisation dans les pays en voie de développement. Reprenant la distinction des fonctions de l’État établie par Musgrave (allocation redistribution et stabilisation) ainsi que deux principes généraux - le principe de proximité poli [...]
La fiscalité minière en Afrique : un état des lieux du secteur de l’or dans 14 pays de 1980 à 2015
Laporte, Bertrand
The lack of information about the mining resource rent sharing between governments and investors is an easy statement in Africa. Existing public databases are often insufficient for a deep analysis of the African tax law applied to natural resource sectors, which limits the academic and operational [...]
La fuite des cerveaux incite-t-elle la scolarisation ? (2008)
La fuite des cerveaux incite-t-elle la scolarisation ?
Boussichas, Matthieu
L'émigration de travailleurs issus des pays en développement vers ceux dits développés est relativement plus qualifiée que la moyenne mondiale des travailleurs. Ceci engendre pour certains de ces PED une perte directe en capital humain non-négligeable. Une vision "optimiste" (Stark(1997)) vise à ima [...]
La qualité de la dépense publique dans les pays en développement : mesure et déterminants (2021-02)
La qualité de la dépense publique dans les pays en développement : mesure et déterminants
Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire
A partir d'une base de données concernant 192 pays de 1990 à 2015, l’analyse empirique menée vise à mesurer la qualité de la dépense publique dans les pays en développement. La méthodologie proposée ici comprend trois étapes : (1) la construction et le calcul d'un indicateur unidimensi [...]
La vulnérabilité économique, défi persistant à la croissance africaine (2006)
La vulnérabilité économique, défi persistant à la croissance africaine
Guillaumont, Patrick
While after a long stagnation growth seems to have come back in Africa, the issue remains to know whether the new African growth is sustainable. This paper examines to what extent African growth is vulnerable to exogeneous shocks and what are the implications for international development finance. F [...]
Landlockedness, Infrastructure and Trade:New Estimates for Central Asian Countries (2008)
Landlockedness, Infrastructure and Trade:New Estimates for Central Asian Countries
Carrere, Céline
This paper assesses the impact of internal infrastructure and landlockedness on Central Asian trade. The impact of landlockedness on Central Asian's trade costs is split into several components, using a panel gravity equation estimated on a large sample of countries (167 countries over 1992-2004). O [...]
Le rôle du taux de change réel dans la transmission de l'instabilité des prix agricoles internationaux
Subervie, Julie
This paper aims at analyzing the role of the real exchange rate in the transmission of world price instability to producers of agricultural commodity-exporting developing countries. The analysis relates to a sample of 51 developing countries over the 1968-2002 period. In those countries whose real e [...]
Le temps retrouvé de l'endettement interne pour les pays en voie de développement ? L'exemple de l'Union économique et monétaire ouest africaine (UEMOA)
Guérineau, Samuel
Following a series of debt cancellations, the public debt of many developing countries has reached low levels. These countries are being urged to extent public spending to reach The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but can not exclusively rely on external financing. Consequently, is an increase [...]
Leadership in Public Good Provision: a Timing Game Perspective (2008)
Leadership in Public Good Provision: a Timing Game Perspective
Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire
We address in this paper the issue of leadership when two governments provide public goods to their constituencies with cross border externalities as both public goods are valued by consumers in both countries. We study a timing game between two different countries: before providing public goods, th [...]
Left behind, but not alone: Changes in living arrangements and the effects of migration and remittances in Mexico
Bertoli, Simone
We provide evidence that the occurrence of an international migration episode is associated with a variation in the living arrangements of the household members left behind. The migration of a married Mexican man typically induces his spouse and children to join the household of the wi [...]
“Leftist”, “Rightist” and Intermediate Decompositions of Poverty Variations with an Application to China from 1990 to 2003
Bresson, Florent
This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into growth and inequality effects. After a complete and critical review of the invariance axioms suggested in the literature, we show that few information is needed for the ordering of the [...]
Legal origin, colonial origin and deforestation (2011)
Legal origin, colonial origin and deforestation
Marchand, Sébastien
This paper investigates whether inherited legacies such as legal origin allow of explaining deforestation in 110 developed and developing countries. The hypothesis is that differences in deforestation between countries can be attributed to their legal systems. Also, since nearly all common law count [...]
Les délocalisations françaises vers la Turquie (2007)
Les délocalisations françaises vers la Turquie
Gourdon, Julien
De 1980 à 2002, l'industrie française a perdu 1 500 000 emplois. La croissance des importations en provenance des pays émergents dans les secteurs ayant perdu le plus d'emplois suggère que les délocalisations et le commerce avec ces pays pourraient en être responsables. Dans le même temps, la France [...]
Les fondements éthiques de l'aide publique au développement : une application à la France (2008)
Les fondements éthiques de l'aide publique au développement : une application à la France
Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane
Ethical foundations of the development aid of France may be found in General de Gaulle's speeches and in Paul VI's encyclical Popularum Progressio, the roots of which are the New Testament. This article aims at reconciling ethic with aid effectiveness as it is defined by economics. It analyses how t [...]
Les monnaies virtuelles décentralisées sont-elles des outils d’avenir ? (2017)
Les monnaies virtuelles décentralisées sont-elles des outils d’avenir ?
Tichit, Ariane
EN : In this article, we show that decentralized virtual currencies can be powerful tools for societal transformation. Indeed, the study of the joint and disjoint elements between the first Bitcoin currencies, SELs and local currencies, reveals that these projects are not so far. Then, we present th [...]
Liberalization, Technology Adoption, and Stock Returns: Evidence from Telecom (2021)
Liberalization, Technology Adoption, and Stock Returns: Evidence from Telecom
Arezki, Rabah
The paper investigates the pace of technology adoption in telecom technology post liberalization and its effect on stock returns using a new global panel dataset. Results are twofold. First, evidence points to the complementarity between telecom liberalization and regulatory independen [...]
Life Insurance Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Developing Countries (2016)
Life Insurance Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Developing Countries
Ouedraogo, Idrissa
This article examines the relation between the development of life insurance sector and economic growth, for a sample of 86 developing countries over the period 1996-2011. We also examine the heterogeneous effect of life insurance on growth. The econometric results show on the one hand that the deve [...]
Macro-Economic Instability and Crime (2006)
Macro-Economic Instability and Crime
Guillaumont, Patrick
This paper adds to the literature on the economic determinants of crime by examining the impact of macro-economic instability. Instability increases the frustration level of individuals and incites them to smooth their income by using illegal earnings. Results from a panel of developed and developin [...]
Macro vulnerability in low income countries and aid responses (2005)
Macro vulnerability in low income countries and aid responses
Guillaumont, Patrick
Macro vulnerability of the poor countries, an increasing concern of the international community, is analyzed as the risk that their development be hampered by the shocks they face, natural or external. Structural vulnerability mainly results from the size of the shocks and the exposure to the shocks [...]
How Macroeconomic Instability Lowers Child Survival (2006)
How Macroeconomic Instability Lowers Child Survival
Guillaumont, Patrick
The reduction of child mortality is one of the most universally accepted millennium goals. However, a significant debate came out on the means of reaching it and on its realism with regard to the situation of most of the least developed countries. The recommendations made for the achievement of this [...]
Macroeconomic instability makes growth less pro poor, in Africa and elsewhere: A preliminary examination
Guillaumont, Patrick
The recent literature on the determinants of poverty changes across countries has been focused on the change of average level of income per capita and its distribution, generally measured by a Gini coefficient. While the instability of income is more and more considered as an explaining factor of th [...]
Madagascar young adult transitions survey - Preliminary Descriptive Results (2013)
Madagascar young adult transitions survey - Preliminary Descriptive Results
Herrera Almanza, Catalina
This report provides a preliminary descriptive analysis of the Madagascar Youth Transition Survey 2012–13 (Enquête Statistique sur les itinéraires de vie des jeunes à Madagascar 2012-13). This survey is the last round of a cohort panel following children from around age 8 (for about half the sample) [...]
Malaria, Production and Income of the Producers of Coffee and Cocoa: an Analysis from Survey Data in Côte d'Ivoire. Malaria, coffee and cocoa production and income
Audibert, Martine
The sectors of coffee and cocoa represented in Côte d'Ivoire, before the political crisis, approximately 15% of the GDP and 40% of exports. The zones of production of these two cultures are in the forest area which is infected with malaria. The culture of these products is less constraining than tha [...]
Matching in Rural Producer Organizations (2006)
Matching in Rural Producer Organizations
Arcand, Jean-Louis
Using a rich dataset from West Africa we study the determinants of membership in rural producer organizations (RPO). We ...nd that on average it is the more fortunate members of rural society who belong in RPOs. In Senegal, the dominant criteria are land ownership. In Burkina Faso it is economic sta [...]
Measuring competition in banking: A critical review of methods (2014)
Measuring competition in banking: A critical review of methods
Léon, Florian
Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition in the banking industry. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided between the structural and non-structural approaches. The structural approach infers the degree of competition from the [...]
A methodology to estimate impacts of domestic policies on deforestation: Compensated Successful Efforts for “avoided deforestation” (REDD)
Combes-Motel, Pascale
Climate change mitigation would benefit from Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in developing countries. The REDD mechanism is in charge of distilling the right incentives for fostering forest conservation with appropriate compensation of foregone revenues, which in turn is [...]
Migration, remittances and poverty in Ecuador (2014)
Migration, remittances and poverty in Ecuador
Bertoli, Simone
We analyse the influence of the recent wave of migration on the incidence of poverty among stayers in Ecuador. We draw our data from a survey that provides detailed information on migrants. The analysis reveals a significant negative effect of migration on poverty among migrant households. This effe [...]
Migration, urban population growth and regional disparity in China (2007)
Migration, urban population growth and regional disparity in China
Renard, Mary-Françoise
The main objective of this paper is to study the determinants of city population growth in China during the 1990s', as well as the determinants of migrations towards cities, which constitutes the main source of urban population growth in this period. A second objective is to identify regional differ [...]
Migrations et discriminations professionnelles dans la province du Guangdong (2011)
Migrations et discriminations professionnelles dans la province du Guangdong
Batisse, Cécile
Cet article étudie l'insertion de ces migrants ruraux sur le marché du travail de la province du Guangdong à partir d'une base de données originales issues d'une enquête sur les paysans-ouvriers (ming gong), réalisée en 2006. A partir de modèles de durée, nous portons une attention particulière aux [...]
Minimum age regulation and child labor: New evidence from Brazil (2017)
Minimum age regulation and child labor: New evidence from Brazil
Bargain, Olivier
We suggest new evidence on minimum age regulations using a natural experiment. In 1998, a constitutional reform has changed the minimum working age from 14 to 16 in Brazil. The reform was the legislative counterpart of a broad set of measures taken by a government strongly committed to fighting chil [...]
Mining taxation in Africa: The gold mining industry in 14 countries from 1980 to 2015 (2017)
Mining taxation in Africa: The gold mining industry in 14 countries from 1980 to 2015
Laporte, Bertrand
The lack of information about the sharing of mining resource rent between governments and investors is an easy statement to make for Africa. The existing datasets are often insufficient for a deep analysis of African tax law as applied to the natural resource sectors, which has limited the academic [...]
On the Move Livelihood Strategies in Northern Ghana (2011)
On the Move Livelihood Strategies in Northern Ghana
Marchetta, Francesca
The households who live in the rural areas of Northern Ghana base their subsistence on natural resources, which are threatened by the progressive desertification and increased frequency of extreme weather events in the region. We draw on a field work and on extensive secondary data sources to analyz [...]
How much does environment pay for politicians? (2018)
How much does environment pay for politicians?
Boly, Mohamed
ln this paper we empirically explore how elections impact environmental degradation using a sample of 77 democratic countries over the period 1990-2014. Three key results emerge. First, election years are characterized by an increase in CO2 emissions, even though the effect seems to diminish over th [...]
How much does environment pay for politicians? (2020)
How much does environment pay for politicians?
Boly, Mohamed
We empirically explore how elections impact climate change policy and environmental degradation, using a sample of 76 democratic countries over the period 1990‐2014. Three key results emerge from our system‐GMM estimations. First, election years are characterized by an increase in C02 [...]
How Much Market Access in FTAs? Textiles Under NAFTA (2005)
How Much Market Access in FTAs? Textiles Under NAFTA
Carrere, Céline
This paper estimates the effective market-access granted under NAFTA in textiles and apparel by combining two approaches. First, we estimate the effect of tariff preferences and rules of origin on the border prices of Mexican final goods exported to the US and of US intermediates exported to Mexico.
Multiculturalism and Growth: Skill-Specific Evidence from the Post-World War II Period (2016)
Multiculturalism and Growth: Skill-Specific Evidence from the Post-World War II Period
Docquier, Frédéric
This paper empirically revisits the impact of multiculturalism (as proxied by indices of birthplace diversity and polarization among immigrants, or by epidemiological terms) on the macroeconomic performance of US states over the 1960-2010 period. We test for skill-specific effects of multiculturalis [...]
Multidimensional Inequalities In China (2006)
Multidimensional Inequalities In China
Labar, Kelly
The usual manner of describing inequality in a population, involves income distributions. China has experienced rapid income growth, led by reforms which have exacerbated income inequalities. Other components of well-being have been affected as well. Education and health care have become less access [...]
Multinomial and Mixed Logit Modeling in the Presence of Heterogeneity: A Two-Period Comparison of Healthcare Provider Choice in Rural China
Audibert, Martine
This study aims at testing the theoretical issue according to which multinomial logit (MNL) would give lower performance than a mixed multinomial logit (MMNL) in the presence of heterogeneity. To do so, we construct two samples of patients surveyed within the same regions in rural China, but of an i [...]
Mutual Supervision in Preshipment Inspection Programs (2009)
Mutual Supervision in Preshipment Inspection Programs
Dequiedt, Vianney
Preshipment inspection programs are implemented in many developing countries to fight customs corruption. They consist in delegating the inspection of imports to a private firm that operates in the exporting country. To study those PSI programs, we develop a hierarchical agency model where the gover [...]
Natives’ attitudes and immigrants’ unemployment durations (2016)
Natives’ attitudes and immigrants’ unemployment durations
Keita, Sekou
Which factors determine the performance of immigrants in the destination country labor market? Evidence in the literature suggests that discrimination may be a barrier to the economic assimilation of immigrants. However, depending on their country of origin, immigrants are heterogeneous with respect [...]
Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports (2023)
Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports
Arezki, Rabah
Countries with greater commodity export intensity have more concentrated markets for imported goods. Within countries over time, import market concentration is associated with higher domestic prices, suggesting that markups due to greater concentration outweigh any potential cost effic [...]
New paradigms for household surveys in low and middle income countries (2018)
New paradigms for household surveys in low and middle income countries
Choumert-Nkolo, Johanna
Understanding the multiple dimensions of the development process is based on a fundamental need: quality data. This article presents recent progress in household survey protocols, which focus on addressing some of the data collection challenges specific to low- and middle-income countries. Four dime [...]
Night lights in economics: Sources and uses (2020)
Night lights in economics: Sources and uses
Gibson, John
Night lights, as detected by satellites, are increasingly used by economists, typically as a proxy for economic activity. The growing popularity of these data reflects either the absence, or the presumed inaccuracy, of more conventional economic statistics, like national or regional GD [...]
Non-Tariff Measures: What do we Know, What Should be Done? (2009)
Non-Tariff Measures: What do we Know, What Should be Done?
Carrere, Céline
With the reduction in tariff barriers, Non-tariff and behind-the-border measures (NTM and BTB) have increased in importance. This paper surveys the state of knowledge with the view to drawing implications for policy suggestions to reduce those NTM barriers that are welfare reducing. Following a desc [...]
Notes on Detecting the Effects of Non Tariff Measures (2009)
Notes on Detecting the Effects of Non Tariff Measures
Carrere, Céline
Alternative approaches to estimating the effects of non-tariff measures (NTMs) on trade flows are discussed and evaluated critically. Recent econometric studies point to three results: (i) NTM restrictiveness measures based on an aggregate of ‘core' NTMs are more restrictive than existing tariffs an [...]
OECD Imports: Diversification and quality search (2009)
OECD Imports: Diversification and quality search
Cadot, Olivier
This paper explores the evolution of OECD imports over time and as a function of income levels, measuring the concentration of those imports across origin countries at the product level. We find evidence of diversification followed, in the very last years of the sample period (post-2000), by a sligh [...]
Oil Contracts, Progressive Taxation and Government Take in the Context of Uncertainty in Crude Oil Prices: The Case of Chad
Gab-Leyba, Guy Dabi
Concession Contracts (CC) and Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) have quite different implications for Government Take and the properties of the tax system, such as progressivity. In general, taxation via CC introduces significant distortions in activity, particularly due to the balance of royalties [...]
Oil and Regional Development in Chad: Impact Assessment of Doba Oil Project on the Poverty in Host Region
Mabali, Aristide
In 2003, Chadian authorities passed the Law N° 001/PR/1999, establishing rules for allocating and managing the expected oil royalties from the Doba Oil project. The oil producing region’s share amounts to 5% of oil revenues under this law in addition to other benefits related to its status in order [...]
Oil Rent and Income Inequality in Developing Economies: Are They Friends or Foes? (2015)
Oil Rent and Income Inequality in Developing Economies: Are They Friends or Foes?
Mallaye, Douzounet
Using the most recent available data on a sample of 40 developing countries, this paper addresses the effects of oil rent on inequality. Mobilizing a dynamic panel data specification over the period 1996–2008, the econometric results yield two important findings. First, there is a non-linear (U-shap [...]
Oil rents, governance quality, and the allocation of talents in developing countries (2011)
Oil rents, governance quality, and the allocation of talents in developing countries
Ebeke, Christian Hubert
Evidence shows that the allocation of talented people is not neutral for growth. Thus, a country with a large population of law concentrators tends to develop rent-seeking activities that reduce growth. A country with a large population of engineers tends to foster innovation and strengthen growth. [...]
Openness and Inequality in Developing Countries: a New Look at the Evidence (2007)
Openness and Inequality in Developing Countries: a New Look at the Evidence
Gourdon, Julien
Integration to world markets is expected to help developing countries to access prosperity. At the same time, increasing opportunities to trade are likely to affect income distribution and whether or not increasing openness to trade is accompanied by a reduction or an increase inequality is highly c [...]
Openness, Inequality, and Poverty: Endowments Matter (2007)
Openness, Inequality, and Poverty: Endowments Matter
Gourdon, Julien
Using tariffs as a measure of openness, this paper finds consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization, measured by changes in tariff revenues, is associated with increases in inequality in [...]
Optimal health investment and preferences structure (2015)
Optimal health investment and preferences structure
Azomahou, Theophile
This paper develops a general equilibrium framework to study the role of preferences structure (additive, multiplicative and convex combination of both) in connecting consumption, health investment, stock of health and capital, and their effects on the wage rate and on productivity. We show that the [...]
On the optimal setting of protected areas (2019)
On the optimal setting of protected areas
Schwartz, Sonia
This paper analyses the determinants of the optimal size of protected areas and what conducts neighboring effects. We investigate in which measure the infrastructure effect and the scarcity effect matter. We obtain several results. The size of protected area mainly depends on preferences toward fore [...]
Is participatory social learning a performance driver for Chinese smallholder farmers? (2013)
Is participatory social learning a performance driver for Chinese smallholder farmers?
Guo, Huanxiu
This paper aims to test the effect of smallholder farmers' participatory social learning on their gain of performance in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the social learning effect using a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR) mode [...]
Pauvreté et arbitrage entre scolarisation et travail des enfants au Mali (2014)
Pauvreté et arbitrage entre scolarisation et travail des enfants au Mali
Keita, Moussa
Cette étude analyse l’influence de la pauvreté sur les choix de scolarisation et de travail des enfants à partir des données provenant d’une enquête ménages réalisée par le CERDI, au Mali, en 2009 et en 2011. Ces choix sont a priori considérés comme deux formes particulières d’allocation du temps de [...]
Pauvreté : à la recherche des élasticités réelles (2006)
Pauvreté : à la recherche des élasticités réelles
Bresson, Florent
Après des décennies de recherches intensives sur les distributions de revenus et malgré ses faiblesses empiriques, la loi log-normale jouit encore d'une popularité importante dans la littérature relative à la pauvreté et aux inégalités. La présente étude tente de mettre en évidence les inconvénients [...]
Perception de la COVID-19 et comportement des ménages en Argentine (2021-02)
Perception de la COVID-19 et comportement des ménages en Argentine
Phelinas, Pascale
EN: This article explores Argentinean perceptions and attitudes towards the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis is based on a telephone survey conducted with a representative sample of 1000 respondents. The analysis shows that Argentines have overwhelmingly approved the health and economic policies foll [...]
Performances et convergence des politiques économiques : La zone franc en Afrique de l'Ouest (2005)
Performances et convergence des politiques économiques : La zone franc en Afrique de l'Ouest
Ary Tanimoune, Nasser
L'objectif de ce papier est de faire le point sur l'état de la convergence nominale dans l'Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA). En 1999, les huit pays constitutifs de cette union ont fait vœu d'harmoniser leur politique budgétaire de manière à compléter la gestion commune de la mon [...]
PES as Compensation ? Redistribution of Payments for Forest Conservation in Mexican Common Forests
Le Velly, Gwenole
This article empirically explores the distribution of a Payments for Environmental Services (PES) scheme within Mexican forest communities. The PSA-H is a Mexican federal PES that has been remunerating communities for forest conservation since 2003. During the last decade, Mexico’s National Forestry [...]
PES Impact and Leakages over Several Cohorts: The Case of PSA-H in Yucatan, Mexico (2015)
PES Impact and Leakages over Several Cohorts: The Case of PSA-H in Yucatan, Mexico
Le Velly, Gwenole
We assess the impact of a payment for environmental services scheme implemented in Mexico, the PSA-H, over the 2005-2012 period. By studying several cohorts of program beneficiaries we are able to shed lights on the permanence of the program's impact. Based on the exploitation of 2.5 to 20m resoluti [...]
Pessimism, Optimism and Credit Rationing (2006)
Pessimism, Optimism and Credit Rationing
Arcand, Jean-Louis
In their celebrated contribution on credit rationing, Stiglitz and Weiss (1981) showed that the expected return to the borrower on a loan is increasing in the risk of the project it funds. In this paper, I show that their results do not necessarily carry over to the case where the agents' preference [...]
Policy Mix Coherence: What Does it Mean for Monetary Policy in West Africa? (2012)
Policy Mix Coherence: What Does it Mean for Monetary Policy in West Africa?
Ary Tanimoune, Nasser
This article examines the influence of Policy Mix coherence in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The paper innovates in two ways. First, through an interaction between the monetary conditions index and the primary structural fiscal balance, we highlight coherence-type complementari [...]
Political Budget Cycles: Manipulation of Leaders or Bias from Research? A Meta-Regression Analysis
Cazals, Antoine
Despite a long history of research on political budget cycles, their existence and magnitudeare still in question. By conducting a systematic analysis of the existing literature we intendto clarify the debate. Based on data collected from over 1,700 regressions and 58 studies, our meta-analysis sugg [...]
Political Budget Cycles: Manipulation from Leaders or Manipulation from Researchers? Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis
Cazals, Antoine
Despite a long history of research on political budget cycles, their existence and magnitude are still in question. By conducting a systematic analysis of the existing literature we intend to clarify the debate. Based on data collected from over 1.700 regressions and 57 studies, our meta-analysis su [...]
Pollution haven hypothesis and Environmental impacts of foreign direct investment: The Case of Industrial Emission of Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) in Chinese provinces
He, Jie
Recognizing the complex inter-correlation between FDI, emission and the three economic determinants of emission, we constructed a simultaneous model to study the FDI-emission nexus in China by exploring both the dynamic recursive FDI entry decision and the linkage from FDI entry to final emission re [...]
Post-neonatal Mortality Impacts Following Grants from the Gavi Vaccine Alliance: An Econometric Analysis from 2000 to 2014
Kolesar, Robert John
We completed a retrospective multivariate panel and longitudinal trend study to evaluate the effect of Gavi Vaccine Alliance grants on vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) post-neonatal mortality. Feasible Generalized Least Squares (fGLS) regression analysis was used to examine the association between [...]
On the potential of foreign aid to protect democracy against instability from trade (2008)
On the potential of foreign aid to protect democracy against instability from trade
Kangoye, Thierry
In this paper, we examine the effects of a major source of instability, namely terms of trade instability on the quality of democracy, and we investigate whether foreign aid can dampen them. We take advantage of previous empirical findings explaining the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects [...]
Poverty, disasters and remittances: do remittances and past disasters influence households’ resilience?
Tapsoba, Tebkieta Alexandra
Using a multi-topic household panel survey conducted in Burkina Faso by the “Institut national de la statistique et de la démographie” (INSD), in 2014, this paper assesses the impact of remittances on poverty in Burkina Faso. To do so, a poverty index is computed using household’s housing characteri [...]
Poverty: Looking for the Real Elasticities (2006)
Poverty: Looking for the Real Elasticities
Bresson, Florent
After decades of intensive research on the statistical size distribution of income and despite its empirical weaknesses, the lognormal distribution still enjoys an important popularity in the applied literature dedicated to poverty and inequality. In the present study, we emphasize the drawbacks of [...]
The power of Remittances on the Prevalence of Child Labor (2009)
The power of Remittances on the Prevalence of Child Labor
Ebeke, Christian Hubert
This article examines the relationship between migrants' remittances and the prevalence of child labor by using a large sample of developing countries. In particular, we investigate whether the inflows of remittances help to offset the effects of financial constraints and income shocks on the preval [...]
The Power to Tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: LTUs, VATs, and SARAs. (2016)
The Power to Tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: LTUs, VATs, and SARAs.
Ebeke, Christian Hubert
In the context of achieving the new Sustainable Development Goals, revenue mobilization is a high priority in developing countries and in Sub-Saharan Africa, where governments’ ability to tax remains limited. Using a unique revenue dataset spanning the period 1980-2010, we analyze three important ta [...]
Presidential elections and the manipulation of exam success rate in Sub-Saharan Africa (2011)
Presidential elections and the manipulation of exam success rate in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ebeke, Christian Hubert
This paper investigates whether the exam success rate in Africa increases significantly in the months prior to the occurrence of the presidential elections. It hypothesizes that the incumbent is tempted to increase the exam success rate to retain a form of social cohesion and to 'buy' votes. A sampl [...]
Price Transmission in the Cocoa-Chocolate Chain (2010)
Price Transmission in the Cocoa-Chocolate Chain
Araujo Bonjean, Catherine
EN: There is a common perception among consumers that the retail prices respond faster to an increase in the price of raw material than to a decrease. This paper aims at testing the existence of such asymmetric price transmission in the cocoa-chocolate chain on the French market. Two types of asymme [...]
Pro cyclicité de la politique budgétaire et surveillance multilatérale dans les unions monétaires africaines
Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane
The devaluation of the CFA Francs in 1994 has highlighted the relevance of fiscal coordination in African monetary unions. After 1994, African monetary unions have adopted a fiscal rule which prescribes a permanent nil or positive budgetary balance. This article studies how this fiscal rule affects [...]
Property rights and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2008)
Property rights and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Araujo, Claudio
This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and fosters forest conversion into agricultural and pasture lands. [...]
Provincial Public Expenditure in China: A Tale of Profligacy (2015)
Provincial Public Expenditure in China: A Tale of Profligacy
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper examines the cyclicality of provincial expenditure in China during the period 1978-2013. We assess whether provincial expenditure has been pro-cyclical using panel data for our analysis. Profligacy is found to be a regular feature of provincial fiscal policy. This profligacy occurs both i [...]
Proxy Means Testing vulnerability to measurement errors? (2018)
Proxy Means Testing vulnerability to measurement errors?
Gazeaud, Jules
Proxy Means Testing (PMT) is a popular method to target the poor in developing countries. PMT usually relies on survey-based consumption data and assumes they are measured with random errors – an assumption that has been challenged by recent literature. This paper brings causal evidence on the impac [...]
Public Expenditures Efficiency On Education Distribution in Developing Countries (2021-01-20)
Public Expenditures Efficiency On Education Distribution in Developing Countries
Brun, Jean-François
The paper assesses the efficiency of public expenditures in decreasing the unequal distribution of education in developing countries over the period 1980–2010. For this purpose, we use partial frontier estimator to compute output and input efficiency scores. Moreover, we analyze the de [...]
Public expenses, credit and natural capital: Substitution or complementarity? (2014)
Public expenses, credit and natural capital: Substitution or complementarity?
Combes, Jean-Louis
Improving access to capital through credit and public spendings is an important steptoward development and poverty alleviation. At the same time, deforestation-relatedactivities, like agricultural expansion, can be seen as relying on natural capital, through thedepletion of forest resources and the [...]
Quelques éléments pour faciliter l'utilisation des bases de données sur l'aide du CAD (2008)
Quelques éléments pour faciliter l'utilisation des bases de données sur l'aide du CAD
Monier, Aline
Dans les années 90, on a pu constater une diminution des volumes d'aide dans un contexte de remise en question de l'utilité de l'aide. Sous l'impulsion des objectifs du millénaire, l'aide est repartie à la hausse mais la préoccupation pour une meilleure efficacité de l'aide est devenue centrale. Ain [...]
Real Exchange Rate Undervaluation and Growth: Is there a Total Factor Productivity Growth Channel?
Mbaye, Samba
Undervaluation of the currency is generally believed to affect growth through two main transmission channels: the "capital accumulation channel" and the "total factor productivity (TFP) growth channel". This paper carries out the first empirical investigation on the TFP growth channel. More specific [...]
Real Exchange Rates and China's Bilateral Exports towards Industrialized Countries (2006)
Real Exchange Rates and China's Bilateral Exports towards Industrialized Countries
Hua, Ping
A bilateral export demand function is developed to study the effects on the Chinese bilateral exports of three real exchange rates, corresponding respectively to the price-competitiveness of Chinese products on the market of the considered import country (traditional effect), on China's other export [...]
Recettes publiques des pays en développement. Méthode d'évaluation (2006)
Recettes publiques des pays en développement. Méthode d'évaluation
Brun, Jean-François
Cet article traite des difficultés méthodologiques soulevées par l'évaluation du niveau des recettes publiques dans les PED. Pour procéder à cette évaluation, il est tenu compte du niveau effectif des recettes publiques, de leur instabilité et enfin de l'effort fiscal. L'effort fiscal, qui permet d' [...]
Reforms and revenue mobilization in Africa: Are semi-autonomous revenue authorities (SARAs) effective?
Gbato, Andre
We study effect of semi-autonomous revenue administration reform on tax revenues in sub-Saharan Africa. From a set of data collected on 40 countries between 1980 and 2010, we find a diversified effect on total non-resource tax revenue. In medium term, semi-autonomous revenue authorities don't collec [...]
Regional Agreements and Welfare in the South: When Scale Economies in Transport Matter (2007)
Regional Agreements and Welfare in the South: When Scale Economies in Transport Matter
Carrere, Céline
This paper focuses on two issues that challenge the accepted pessimistic view that regional trade agreements (RTAs) between developing countries in welfare terms by taking into account scale economies in transport. First, how is the standard welfare analysis of an RTA affected by the endogeneity of [...]
Regionalism and Developing Countries: A Primer (2005)
Regionalism and Developing Countries: A Primer
De Melo, Jaime
The paper discusses regionalism from the standpoint of developing countries surveying the more significant recent contributions surrounding the contentious debate about identifying resulting benefits for Southern partners in the recent wave of North-South Preferential Trading Agreements (PTAs).
Regulating transgenic soybean production in Argentina (2017)
Regulating transgenic soybean production in Argentina
Phelinas, Pascale
This article investigates how to regulate transgenic soybean production in Argentina. Taking into account the broad range of negative externalities associated with transgenic soybean production, we explore the effects of two different policy instruments, namely a subsidy for non-transgenic soybean a [...]
Religious Authorities, Peace, and Political Conflict : Assessing the Impacts of Pope John Paul II's International Travels
Laville, Camille
Between 1978 and 2005, Pope John Paul II traveled to 102 developing countries with the aim, inter alia, of promoting interreligious peace to populations and policy makers. Despite an increasing involvement of religious leaders in peace-building activities, concerns rise on the propensi [...]
Remittances, food security and climate variability: The case of Burkina Faso (2019)
Remittances, food security and climate variability: The case of Burkina Faso
Tapsoba, Alexandra
This paper assesses the impact of remittances and climate variability on the food security of households in Burkina Faso. It draws from the World Bank 2010 survey on migration and remittances in Burkina Faso and uses a database from Burkina Faso’s Department of Meteorology regarding rainfall recorde [...]
Remittances and Household Consumption Instability in Developing Countries (2010)
Remittances and Household Consumption Instability in Developing Countries
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on household consumption instability in developing countries on a large panel of developing countries. The four main results are the following: Firstly, remittances significantly reduce household consumption instability. Secondly, the insurance role play [...]
Remittances and the Prevalence of Working Poor (2011)
Remittances and the Prevalence of Working Poor
Combes, Jean-Louis
This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing countries and to the number of workers being paid less than 2 do [...]
Remittances, Public Health Spending and Foreign Aid in the Access to Health Care Services in Developing Countries
Drabo, Alassane
The aim of this paper is to analyze the respective impacts of remittances, health aid and public spending on the access to health care services in developing countries. The specific objectives are threefold. Firstly, we quantify the differential impacts of remittances on the access to public and pri [...]
Remittances, Value Added Tax and Tax Revenue in Developing Countries (2010)
Remittances, Value Added Tax and Tax Revenue in Developing Countries
Ebeke, Christian Hubert
This paper examines the impact of international remittances on both the level and the instability of government tax revenue in receiving countries. It investigates in particular whether the presence of a value added tax (VAT) system increases the benefit of the inflows of remittances in terms of hig [...]
Rent sharing and progressivity of tax regimes in the mining sector: An analysis of 21 African gold-producing countries
Laporte, Bertrand
In the mining sector, governments must be able to reconcile two objectives: to attract foreign direct investment to exploit the resource and to capture a sufficient share of the mining rent to finance development. This problem has been known for a long time, and it certainly raises the question of t [...]
Rente naturelle et composition des dépenses publiques (2008)
Rente naturelle et composition des dépenses publiques
Philippot, Louis-Marie
In this paper, we investigate the impact of natural resource rent on public expenditure composition. Our hypothesis is that, when institutional quality is low, politicians have more discretionary power on the allocation of public resources. Then public expenditure composition tends to be modified in [...]
Rente naturelle et institutions. Les Ressources Naturelles : Une « Malédiction Institutionnelle » ?
Philippot, Louis-Marie
Depuis les travaux de Sachs et Warner (1995), la littérature de la malédiction des ressources naturelles identifie un effet négatif de la dotation naturelle sur les performances économiques des pays. Un des mécanismes mis en avant est celui de la mauvaise qualité institutionnelle, les ressources nat [...]
Représentations sociales de la monnaie : contraste entre les citoyens et les porteurs de monnaies locales
Tichit, Ariane
This article analyzes the social representations of money from survey data. More specifically, it tests how holders of a complementary currency project have a distinct perception of money compared to other citizens. The main results confirm the existence of significant differences between the two gr [...]
A Retrospective EVI: Methodological Aspects (2007)
A Retrospective EVI: Methodological Aspects
Guillaumont, Patrick
The aim of the note is, following the previous work of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) (United Nations 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006) as well as my related papers and my forthcoming book on the Least Developped Countries (LDCs) (Guillaumont, 2004a, 2004b, 2006, 2007a, 2007b), to set [...]
Return Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt (2012)
Return Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt
Marchetta, Francesca
The literature shows that temporary international migrants have a high propensity to opt for an entrepreneurial activity upon return, but the prospects of survival of these activities have not been explored. We address this research question using longitudinal Egyptian data. We find that entrepreneu [...]
Revisiting the Relationship between Financial Development and Child Labor in Developing Countries: Do Inequality and Institutions Matter?
Coulibaly, Aïssata
This paper analyzes the relationship between financial development and child labor for a panel of developing countries over the period 1960 to 2004. We find that financial development measured by the ratio of private credit to GDP tends to increase child labor and this result is driven [...]
The role of education and family background in marriage, childbearing and labor market participation in Senegal
Marchetta, Francesca
This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at labor market entry for young women in Senegal using a rich individual-level survey conducted in 2003. We use a multiple-equation framework that allows us to account for the endogeneity [...]
What is the Role of Openness for China's Environment? An Analysis Based on Divisia Decomposition Method From the Regional Angle
He, Jie
Observing the weakness in the previous structural analyses on EKC formation, in this paper, author deepens the analysis into the detailed data of production and SO2 emission intensity of China's 29 industrial sectors (occupying over 98% of the total industrial production) in each province during 199 [...]
Rupture et asymétrie de la transmission des prix agricoles internationaux (2007)
Rupture et asymétrie de la transmission des prix agricoles internationaux
Subervie, Julie
Les gouvernements des pays en développement et les intermédiaires commerciaux positionnés le long des filières agricoles d'exportation jouent un rôle déterminant dans la transmission des chocs de prix mondiaux aux producteurs. Les mécanismes d'intervention sur les prix peuvent en effet conduire à un [...]
School attendance and poverty in an oil boom context in Chad (2014)
School attendance and poverty in an oil boom context in Chad
Mabali, Aristide
Oil resources have enabled Chad to increase public financing for education and to achieve high economic growth rates. Regarding these policies to supporting the education sector, we assume that the standard of living of households does not explain the school attendance. We test empirically this hypo [...]
School Fees, Parental Participation and Accountability: Evidence from Madagascar (2013)
School Fees, Parental Participation and Accountability: Evidence from Madagascar
Lesne, Frédéric
The role of school fees in achieving both allocative and productive efficiency in the delivery of primary education has been a subject of intense debate. Building on a simple model that makes explicit the role of school fees in determining the optimal level of parental participation to school govern [...]
School or work? The role of weather shocks in Madagascar (2018)
School or work? The role of weather shocks in Madagascar
Marchetta, Francesca
We examine the impact of rainfall variability and cyclones on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young adults by estimating a bivariate probit model, using a panel survey conducted in 2004 and 2011 in Madagascar—a poor island nation that is frequently affected by extreme weather events. [...]
In Search of Fiscal Space in Africa: The Role of the Quality of Government Spending (2015)
In Search of Fiscal Space in Africa: The Role of the Quality of Government Spending
Yohou, Djedje Hermann
Taking advantage of African experience, this paper proposes to enrich empirically the issue of fiscal space. Africa has markedly achieved significant economic progress since the 80's decade crisis. However, this progress has been proven insufficient to curb dramatically the infrastructures gap and p [...]
Should we stay or should we go? Irregular migration and duration of stay: the case of Moldovan migrants
Borodak, Daniela
This paper analyses the link between irregular migration and duration of stay. Using household and regional development data from Moldova and running a duration model, we find that duration of migration is longer for illegal migrants than legal migrants. Further investigation demonstrates that this [...]
Social activity and collective action for agricultural innovation: a case study of New Rural Reconstruction in China
Renard, Mary-Françoise
Since 2003, a grass-roots movement of New Rural Reconstruction (NRR) has emerged in China to experience alternative model of rural development. The movement adopts a particular approach for rural development on basis of rural social and cultural reconstruction. In order to understand this social app [...]
Social Protection for Poverty Reduction in Times of Crisis (2013)
Social Protection for Poverty Reduction in Times of Crisis
Assimaidou, Kossi
The recent global crisis has highlighted the need to protect the poor and people vulnerable to adverse shocks. Many countries have implemented various programmes to protect social spending and help poor people during periods of financial crisis. This paper uses the most comprehensive database on soc [...]
Social representations of money: Contrast between citizens and local complementary currency members
Tichit, Ariane
This article analyses the social representations of money from survey data. More specifically, it tests how organizers of a complementary currency system have a distinct perception of money compared to other citizens. The main results confirm the existence of significant differences between the two [...]
Sources of income differences across Chinese provinces during the reform period: a development accounting exercise
Hao, Rui
China's rapid and uneven growth since 1978 has not eliminated but even re- inforced the persistent income inequality across provinces. While existing literature focuses mainly on the provincial variation in growth performance using cross-province growth regressions or growth accounting, few efforts [...]
Sovereign Debt Risk in Emerging Countries: Does Inflation Targeting Adoption Make Any Difference?
Balima, Hippolyte Wenéyam
Based on a sample of 38 emerging countries, we find that inflation targeting (IT) adoption improves sovereign debt risk. However, we show that IT adoption effectiveness is sensitive to several structural characteristics, such as the phase of the business cycle, the fiscal stance, and the level of de [...]
A spatial econometric approach to spillover effects between protected areas and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Amin, Ariane Manuela
Protected areas are increasingly used as a tool to fight against deforestation. This paper presents new evidence on the spillover effects that occur in the decision to deforest and the creation of protected areas in local administrative entities in Brazilian Legal Amazon over the 2001-2011 period. W [...]
Spatial Interactions in Tropical Deforestation: An application to the Brazilian Amazon (2015)
Spatial Interactions in Tropical Deforestation: An application to the Brazilian Amazon
Andrade De Sa, Saraly
This paper investigates the mechanisms determining spatial interactions in deforestation, and its transmission channels, using data from Brazil. Our preliminary results confirm the hypothesis that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is characterized by complementarity, meaning that deforestation i [...]
Stacking up the ladder: A panel data analysis of Tanzanian household energy choices (2017)
Stacking up the ladder: A panel data analysis of Tanzanian household energy choices
Choumert-Nkolo, Johanna
Energy-use statistics in Tanzania reflect the country’s low level of industrialization and development. In 2016, only 16.9% of rural and 65.3% of urban inhabitants in mainland Tanzania were connected to some form of electricity. We use a nationally representative three-wave panel dataset (2008-2013) [...]
State fragility and economic vulnerability: what is measured and why? (2009)
State fragility and economic vulnerability: what is measured and why?
Guillaumont, Patrick
State fragility is a concept that emerged among the international community of donors in order to adapt aid policies to particularly difficult situations. Fragility has thus been measured to design a special treatment in favour of fragile states, otherwise left behind. In this context, but somewhat [...]
Strategic Interactions in Environmental Regulation Enforcement: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
Renard, Mary-Françoise
This paper studies whether Chinese provinces set strategically their environmental stringency when faced with interprovincial competition for mobile capital. Using Chinese provincial data and spatial panel econometric models, we find that Chinese provinces do engage in this kind of strategic interac [...]
On the strategic use of representative democracy in international agreements (2006)
On the strategic use of representative democracy in international agreements
Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire
We consider as endogenous the choice of the delegation' rule in a political integration process between two countries. We study three potential types of delegation: strong, weak or no delegation, this last case corresponding to a referendum. We show that populations decide to bind themselves by dele [...]
Structural Vulnerability and Excessive Public Indebtedness in CFA Franc Zone Countries (2012)
Structural Vulnerability and Excessive Public Indebtedness in CFA Franc Zone Countries
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm
This paper relies on the 'institutional debt rule' implemented in Franc Zone countries to assess whether the structural vulnerability of these countries matter for their probability to enter into excessive indebtedness. This structural vulnerability is measured by retrospective 'Economic Vulnerabili [...]
Subsidized antimalarial drugs in Dakar (Senegal): Do the poor benefit? (2017)
Subsidized antimalarial drugs in Dakar (Senegal): Do the poor benefit?
Kone, Georges Karna
Senegal opted for an antimalarial drug policy (artemisinin-based combination therapy) of partial and then full exemption from health care costs for the whole population respectively in 2008 and 2010. Has this policy reduced access inequalities in children’s health care between rich and poor househol [...]
Survival Convergence: Specification Matters (2008)
Survival Convergence: Specification Matters
Grigoriou, Christopher
Retaining as a “Millennium Development Goal” a decrease by two thirds in child mortality whatever its initial level assumes that the target elasticity of child mortality may be the same in all the developing countries. We show that such an assumption is not perfectly consistent with the bounded char [...]
Taming Private Leviathans : Regulation versus Taxation (2021)
Taming Private Leviathans : Regulation versus Taxation
Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire
This paper explores the interplay between top wealth and policies namely regulation and taxation exploiting variation in exposure to international commodity prices. Using a global panel dataset of billionaire’s net worth, results point to a positive relationship between commodity price [...]
Taux de change réel et compétitivité de l'économie réunionnaise (2010)
Taux de change réel et compétitivité de l'économie réunionnaise
Goujon, Michaël
L'île de La Réunion, région française ultrapériphérique, se caractérise par des performances économiques généralement en deçà de celles de la métropole, mais aussi de celles de partenaires commerciaux qui partagent nombre de caractéristiques communes. Le très fort déficit de la balance commerciale r [...]
Taux de change réel et productivité en Chine (2006)
Taux de change réel et productivité en Chine
Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane
This article investigates the impact that the appreciation and the stability of the real exchange rate in China between 1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange rate on productivity via its effects either on efficienc [...]
The tax burden on mobile network operators in Africa (2021-01-22)
The tax burden on mobile network operators in Africa
Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire
We estimate the tax burden on the mobile telecommunication sector in twenty-five African countries. This tax burden encompasses not only standard and particular taxes under the control of the Ministry of Finance (MoF), but also fees raised by national telecommunication Regulatory Agenc [...]
Tax effort in Sub-Saharan African countries : evidence from a new dataset (2020)
Tax effort in Sub-Saharan African countries : evidence from a new dataset
Caldeira, Emilie
This paper proposes (i) a new database of tax revenue for 42 Sub-Saharan African countries (SSA) over the period 1980-2015, (ii) an estimate of tax effort for these countries, and (iii) some replication analyses of previous tax effort estimations. The database results from statistical [...]
Tax Potential and Tax Effort: An Empirical Estimation for Non-resource Tax Revenue and VAT’s Revenue
Brun, Jean-François
Taxation is one of the main components of a country’s fiscal space. Its internal origin and the accountability it creates between rulers and populations make it a key element in financing public expenditure. Tax capacity differs between countries and depends on structural factors. A number of empiri [...]
Tax reform, public revenue and public revenue instability in developing countries: Does development aid matter?
Brun, Jean-François
This paper addresses two main questions concerning the relationship between tax reform, development aid, public revenue and public revenue instability in developing countries. Tax reform involves here a change in the tax structure in favour of domestic public revenue and at the expense of internatio [...]
Tax Revenue Instability in Sub-Saharan Africa: Consequences and Remedies (2010)
Tax Revenue Instability in Sub-Saharan Africa: Consequences and Remedies
Ebeke, Christian Hubert
This paper focuses on the sources and consequences of the instability of tax revenue in Sub-Saharan African countries. We take advantage of a unique and extraordinarily rich dataset on the composition of tax revenues for a large number of countries. Using panel data for 39 countries observed over th [...]
Taxe carbone globale, effet taille de marché et mobilité des firmes (2011)
Taxe carbone globale, effet taille de marché et mobilité des firmes
Exbrayat, Nelly
Nous analysons l'impact et les déterminants d'une taxe carbone globale dans une économie imparfaitement intégrée composée de pays de différente taille. A l'aide d'un modèle de commerce et de localisation, nous montrons tout d'abord que la concentration de firmes dans le pays disposant d'un avantage [...]
Technical Efficiency, Farm Size and Tropical Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazonian Forest (2010)
Technical Efficiency, Farm Size and Tropical Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazonian Forest
Marchand, Sébastien
This paper analyses the impact of farm productivity as well as farm size on deforestation in Brazil. A two step econometric approach is adopted. A bootstrapped translog stochastic frontier that is a posteriori checked for functional consistency is used in order to estimate technical efficiency of wh [...]
Tendances et chocs climatiques à La Réunion : utilisation de la base CRU TS version 3.21. (2015)
Tendances et chocs climatiques à La Réunion : utilisation de la base CRU TS version 3.21.
Goujon, Michaël
Nous proposons une analyse statistique de séries mensuelles de précipitations et températures géolocalisées pour la Réunion et trois comparateurs (Maurice, Mayotte et les Comores) couvrant la période 1950-2012. Nous utilisons et traitons des données primaires de la base internationale Climate Resear [...]
Terrorism, Customs and fraudulent Gold exports in Africa (2022-12-07)
Terrorism, Customs and fraudulent Gold exports in Africa
Banao, Fawzi
The actions of terrorist groups destabilize border states and economies. The presence of mining activities, such as gold extraction, favors the illicit export of this ore to finance terrorist groups. Using COMTRADE data, we estimate gold customs fraud with mirror analysis (gold export [...]
Terrorism and Fiscal Policy Volatility in Developing Countries: Evidence from cross-country and Panel Data
Yogo, Thierry Urbain
This paper investigates the effect of terrorism on fiscal policy volatility in developing countries. Using both cross-country and panel data analysis for 66 countries from 1970 to 2012, we find that an increase in the number of terrorist incidents raise the volatility of the discretionary component [...]
Testing for Separation in Agricultural Household Models and Unobservable Household-Specific Effects
Arcand, Jean-Louis
When market structure is complete, factor demands by households will be independent of their characteristics, and households will take their production decisions as if they were profit-maximizing firms. This observation constitutes the basis for one of the most popular empirical tests for complete m [...]
Textile manufacturing in eight developing countries:How far does the business environment explain firms' productive inefficiency?
Chaffai, Mohamed
Production frontiers and inefficiency determinants are estimated by using stochastic models. Textile manufacturing is considered for a sample of eight developing countries encompassing about one thousand firms. We find that the most influential individual inefficiency determinants relate to in-house [...]
The Theory of 'Internal Exit', a comment on Buchanan and Faith (1987) (2006)
The Theory of 'Internal Exit', a comment on Buchanan and Faith (1987)
Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire
The purpose of this note is to correct an error in the seminal article on secession by Buchanan and Faith (1987). In their paper, Buchanan and Faith neglected an important effect: political separation affects markets and consequently individual private incomes.
Is there a strategy in China’s health official development assistance to African countries? (2017)
Is there a strategy in China’s health official development assistance to African countries?
Guillon, Marlène
Chinese health official development assistance (ODA) to Africa has largely increased since the beginning of the 2000’s. Even if China now ranks among the top ten bilateral donors for health aid in Africa very little is known about the determinants of Chinese health ODA to African countries. Our obje [...]
Thresholds in Aid Effectiveness (2008)
Thresholds in Aid Effectiveness
Wagner, Laurent
Is the big push hypothesis consistent with capacity constraints in the study of aid effectiveness? Big push hypothesis suggests the existence of a minimum threshold below which aid is not effective, while the constraints referred to by the concept of absorptive capacity suggests the existence of ano [...]
Total Factor Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology
Mitra, Arup
Drawing on a recent dataset of the Indian manufacturing industry for 1994 to 2008, this paper shows for eight sectors that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and Technical Efficiency (TE).In the analysis, we use a range of [...]
Total Factor Productivity of Tunisia's manufacturing sectors: measurement, determinants and convergence towards OECD countries
Chaffai, Mohamed
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, sector-based Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is calculated for six Tunisian manufacturing sectors over the period 1983-2002. Economic determinants of the productive performance are also investigated. In doing so, we take care of the direction of the causa [...]
Total Factor Productivity within the Tunisian manufacturing sectors and international convergence with OECD countries
Plane, Patrick
The purpose of this paper is to examine Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of six Tunisian manufacturing sectors and to compare these productivities with those of OECD countries. The analysis covers the period 1983-1999. First, TFP is measured and some of the main economic and financial determinants ar [...]
The trade costs of financial crises (2019)
The trade costs of financial crises
Atsebi, Jean-Marc Bédhat
The “Great Trade Collapse” triggered by the 2008-09 crisis calls for a careful assessment of the trade costs of financial crises. Compared with the existing literature that mainly focuses on the total trade of goods and, in the context of the recent great recession, on manufacturing trade, we adopt [...]
Trade-Induced Changes in Economic Inequality: Assessment Issues and Policy Implications for Developing Countries
Chabé-Ferret, Sylvain
The starting point of this paper is given by country situations where trade liberalization is expected to be poverty and inequality alleviating in the long run while inducing a short run increase in poverty or in inequality. The question we ask is what are the distributive aspects of trade which are [...]
Trade and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: South-South Trade Matter (2007)
Trade and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: South-South Trade Matter
Gourdon, Julien
The relationship between trade liberalization and inequality has received considerable attention in recent years. The primary purpose of this paper is to present new results on the sources of wage inequalities in manufacturing taking into account South-South (S-S) trade. Globalization not only leads [...]
Transboundary Pollution in China: A Study of Polluting Firms' Location Choices in Hebei Province
Duvivier, Chloé
Transboundary pollution is a particularly serious problem as it leads people located at regional borders to disproportionately suffer from pollution. In China, where the environmental policy is decentralized and where environmental conflicts between provinces have occurred several times, transbounda [...]
Transferts des migrants, ouverture sur l'extérieur et dépenses publiques dans les pays en développement
Ebeke, Christian Hubert
Cet article examine l'impact des transferts des migrants sur les dépenses publiques dans les économies du monde en développement. Nous testons l'argument selon lequel, il s'opère une substitution partielle entre l'assurance publique et l'assurance privée qu'offrent les transferts des migrants dans l [...]
Transmission des chocs de prix internationaux : le cas du riz au Burkina Faso (2011)
Transmission des chocs de prix internationaux : le cas du riz au Burkina Faso
Badolo, Félix
La hausse des prix des produits agricoles sur les marchés internationaux durant la période 2006-2008 a entraîné une flambée des prix intérieurs dans certains pays en développement, mais pas dans d'autres. La littérature empirique sur la transmission des chocs des prix internationaux dans les pays en [...]
Turnout in Developing Countries: The Effect of Mass Media on National Voter Participation (2009)
Turnout in Developing Countries: The Effect of Mass Media on National Voter Participation
Vergne, Clémence
Previous research on electoral participation has paid little attention to turnout in developing countries. Even more understudied is the effect of mass media, as the main source of political information, on voter turnout in new democracies. This paper argues that voter turnout patterns in developing [...]
Two-Period Comparison of Healthcare Demand with Income Growth and Population Aging in Rural China: Implications for Adjustment of the Healthcare Supply and Development
Audibert, Martine
We estimate the evolution of healthcare demand under the influence of income growth and population aging with two samples of patients surveyed in the same regions, but with an interval of 18 years in rural China and with mixed logit to deal with heterogeneity. In accordance with theoretical and indu [...]
What Types of Perceived Governance Indicators Matter the Most for Private Investment in Middle East and North Africa
Veganzones-Varoudakis, Marie-Ange
By using a simultaneous equations model, this paper establishes that the perceived quality of governance, which is measured by three different indicators “Quality of Administration”, “Public Accountability” and “Political Stability”, has a positive effect on the private investment decisions in the d [...]
Ukraine et Biélorussie : des crises jumelles ? (2010)
Ukraine et Biélorussie : des crises jumelles ?
Goujon, Michaël
L'Ukraine et la Biélorussie ont été touchées par la crise financière internationale depuis l'automne 2008. Ces deux économies en transition sont relativement proches en termes de structure productive, mais l'Ukraine est plus ouverte financièrement. Une première analyse suggère pourtant des similitud [...]
Un cadre général pour le calcul des élasticités inégalités de la pauvreté (2007)
Un cadre général pour le calcul des élasticités inégalités de la pauvreté
Bresson, Florent
Many authors have recently emphasized the crucial role of income inequalities in the design of efficient policies aimed at reducing poverty. However, the link between variations of the degree of inequality and variations of poverty are not well documented. The literature, for instance, does not prov [...]
Un indicateur de politique d'ouverture « révélée » des pays industrialisés à l'immigration en provenance des pays en développement
Boussichas, Matthieu
The policy of openness toward immigration from developing countries is strongly debated in the industrialized countries. Existing indicators of immigration policy are however unsatisfactory because they don't allow to assess the restrictiveness or openness of immigration policies of industrialized c [...]
Understanding the Causal Links between Financial Development and International Trade (2012)
Understanding the Causal Links between Financial Development and International Trade
Kiendrebeogo, Youssouf
This paper analyses the causal relationship between financial development and international trade using data of 21 developed and developing countries from 1961 to 2010 and appropriate time series techniques that allow us to decompose the source of causation according to the order of integration of t [...]
Une approche historique du développement comparé : Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson (AJR) et Jared Diamond sont-ils complémentaires ?
Mandon, Pierre
In this paper we provide empirical evidence of the complementarities between the geographical approach of Diamond (1997) and the institutional approach of Acemoglu et al. (2002) to explain gaps in economic performance worldwide since 11, 000 BC until today. While the biogeographical endowments of Di [...]
Union Monétaire en Afrique de l'Ouest: Quelles Réponses à l'Hétérogénéité des Chocs ? (2009)
Union Monétaire en Afrique de l'Ouest: Quelles Réponses à l'Hétérogénéité des Chocs ?
Tapsoba, Sampawende Jules-Armand
Since the independences, having a single currency is an official policy objective of West African countries. In April 2000, West African decisions-makers decided to accelerate the integration of the region by creating a second monetary zone in addition to the WAEMU (West African Economic and Monetar [...]
When unstable, growth is less pro poor (2008)
When unstable, growth is less pro poor
Guillaumont, Patrick
Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and by this way is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microec [...]
Use of health care among the urban poor in Africa: Does the neighbourhood have an impact? (2013)
Use of health care among the urban poor in Africa: Does the neighbourhood have an impact?
Kone, Georges Karna
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relative influence of neighbourhood and individual practices of care utilization in Dakar (Senegal). The data from a research program on urban malaria, made in Dakar, Senegal between 2008 and 2009. The sample was based on a two-stage sampling. A questionnaire [...]
Use of internal information, external information acquisition and customs underreporting (2015)
Use of internal information, external information acquisition and customs underreporting
Chalendard, Cyril
This paper identifies opportunities for improving the performance of revenue-collectionauthorities. To detect and combat fraud, we argue that revenue-collection authorities should,notably in the absence of reliable third-party information, exploit non-usual sources ofinformation. Specifically, our m [...]
Using Internal and External Sources of Information to Reduce Customs Evasion (2017)
Using Internal and External Sources of Information to Reduce Customs Evasion
Chalendard, Cyril
This paper aims to identify some factors that reduce evasion of customs duties in developing countries. Following the recent literature on customs evasion, we proxy customs fraud by discrepancies in bilateral trade statistics. Estimates first show that the more frequently a product is imported, the [...]
The value of the greenbelt in Vienna: a spatial hedonic analysis (2014)
The value of the greenbelt in Vienna: a spatial hedonic analysis
Herath, Shanaka
This paper employs the hedonic price method (HPM) to examine whether the implicit value of the greenbelt is capitalized into apartment prices in the city of Vienna, Austria. We improve the traditional model using spatial econometric techniques and compare estimates from different spatial models, nam [...]
Visa Policies, Networks and the Cliff at the Border (2014)
Visa Policies, Networks and the Cliff at the Border
Bertoli, Simone
The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn,influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. Thispaper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows tomultiple destinations. We rely [...]
Volcanic hazards, land and labor (2018)
Volcanic hazards, land and labor
Choumert-Nkolo, Johanna
We study the behavior of farmers living under the threat of the Tungurahua Volcano in Ecuador. Recent eruptions have caused significant damage, including crop loss, death of livestock, and destruction of dwellings. We collected a unique data set after a major eruption in 2016. We interviewed 222 far [...]
Vulnerability and public service delivery in China from 1985 to 1999 (2007)
Vulnerability and public service delivery in China from 1985 to 1999
Renard, Mary-Françoise
This research focused on the determinants of vulnerability, as measured by the variable of expenditure on food consumption, by the quality of public service delivery as measured by three education variables (amount of students per teacher in primary education, amount of students per teacher in secon [...]
West African Monetary Integration and Interstates Risk-Sharing (2010)
West African Monetary Integration and Interstates Risk-Sharing
Tapsoba, Sampawende Jules-Armand
There are continuing efforts at the monetary integration and unionization in West Africa. Several academics argue that a monetary union among West African states would be costly because of the magnitude of asymmetric shocks. A common monetary policy is inappropriate and ineffective to respond to div [...]
Why do anti-deforestation policies succeed or fail? Review of the Theory of Change emerging from the existing literature
Niel, Bénédicte
Studies addressing the effectiveness of policies aiming at combatting deforestation have produced mixed results, showing no obvious and undebated correlations between a certain type of forest policy instrument and its success in preventing or deterring deforestation. Hence, why anti-deforestation po [...]
Why Has Unemployment in Algeria Been Higher than in MENA and Transition Countries? (2008)
Why Has Unemployment in Algeria Been Higher than in MENA and Transition Countries?
Kpodar, Kangni
This paper analyzes the determinants of labor market performance in Algeria. When the model is estimated with panel data on a sample of MENA and transition countries for 1995–2005, the results suggest that lower growth in labor productivity in Algeria is associated with higher unemployment than the [...]
Why Migrants' Remittances Reduce Income Inequality in some Countries and not in Others? (2009)
Why Migrants' Remittances Reduce Income Inequality in some Countries and not in Others?
Ebeke, Christian Hubert
According to the literature, the effect of remittances on income inequality in origin countries of migrants is not clear, whatever empirical approach is used. Aiming at clearing up this ambiguity, some authors took into account the historical, social or economic context of the home countries consider [...]
Women's political participation and intrahousehold empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring
Bargain, Olivier
Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women’s perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have translated into better outcomes within Egyptian households. We conjecture that potential changes must h [...]
Are workers close to cities paid higher non-agricultural wages in rural China? (2012)
Are workers close to cities paid higher non-agricultural wages in rural China?
Duvivier, Chloé
In the present study, we investigate whether workers close to cities are paid higher non-agricultural wages than workers in outlying rural areas. We find that workers close to urban areas not only benefit from more opportunities to engage in non-agricultural activities, but also from better paid job [...]
Yardstick competition in a Federation: Theory and Evidence from China (2010)
Yardstick competition in a Federation: Theory and Evidence from China
Caldeira, Emilie
While some scholars argue that fiscal decentralization gave Chinese local officials strong incentives to promote local economic growth, traditional fiscal federalism theories are not directly relevant to explain such an effect in the particular context of China. In this paper, we explain the existen [...]
2007/32. Financial Reforms, Growth and Regional Disparity in Post-reform China (2007)
2007/32. Financial Reforms, Growth and Regional Disparity in Post-reform China
Liang, Zhicheng
In this paper, by employing the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) techniques and Chinese provincial level data from 1991 to 2003, we empirically investigate the relationship between finance and growth in post-reform China. We find that financial development significantly promotes economic growth in [...]
