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Agricultural investment, growth and poverty reduction: What will be the outcomes of the comprehensive Africa agricultural development program in Guinea-Bissau?

Abstract Promoted under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the objective of the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Program (CAADP) is to increase the pace of agricultural growth in order to reduce poverty by half under the first goal of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. In this paper, we assess the expected effects […]

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Sénégal: strategies to integrate youth into the labor market.

Youth unemployment is a major quandary for Senegal; it inhibits the nation’s economic well-being and is certainly an issue for upcoming elections in 2012. Recently, the extension of the retirement age coupled with a public sector hiring freeze has made it even more difficult to find jobs. Older employees remain in the labor market while […]

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Les effets d’une contrainte de crédit sur la convergence économique : Le cas des pays de l’UEMOA.

Résumé L’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser les effets d’une faiblesse du système financier sur la convergence des pays de l’UEMOA vers la frontière de croissance mondiale. A cet effet, nous avons utilisé un modèle de croissance Schumpetérien avec transfert de technologie développé par Aghion et al. (Quarterly Journal of Economics 120(1):173–222, 2005). Ceci nous […]

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Les aléas pluviométriques et pauvreté dans les économies du Sahel : le cas du Sénégal

Résumé Dans cet article, nous simulons, à l’aide d’un modèle d’équilibre général calculable dynamique, l’impact de chocs pluviométriques sur la pauvreté au Sénégal. Les résultats attestent que les périodes de chute pluviométrique correspondent à des phases de hausse de l’incidence de la pauvreté pour toutes les catégories de ménages. Cependant, les périodes d’excédents pluviométriques profitent […]

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Estimating Returns to Higher Education: A Survey of Models, Methods and Empirical Evidence.

Abstract This paper presents a detailed review of the main microeconomic and macroeconomic principles used to measure returns to education. We are also interested in major problems we encountered in empirically applying these models. The change in returns to higher learning in Sub-Saharan education is compared with returns to other levels of education. A meta-analysis […]

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Empirical evidence of economic bipolarization in Africa, Economics Research International.

Abstract This paper examines the degree of polarization in African countries’ per capita GDP distribution between 1966 to 2004. We first use a nonparametric analysis and find that the countries tend to cluster in two classes of per capita GDP. Secondly, by using the Wolfson’s bipolarization measure, the results reveal that bipolarization has been accelerating […]

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Empirical evidence of economic bipolarization in Africa

Abstract and Figures This paper examines the degree of polarization in African countries’ per capita GDP distribution between 1966 to 2004. We first use a nonparametric analysis and find that the countries tend to cluster in two classes of per capita GDP. Secondly, by using the Wolfson’s bipolarization measure, the results reveal that bipolarization has […]

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Croissance et convergence économique en Afrique : L’impact des effets spatiaux.

Abstract The aim of this paper is to study the impact of spatial effects on convergence process in Africa over the period 1975-2000. Taking into account these effects through the methodology of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) and spatial econometrics, we focus on the geographical dimension of economic convergence of African countries. This allows us […]

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Analyse de l’interaction des politiques budgétaire et monétaire au sein de l’Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine.

During 2008, many Sub-Saharan African economies have been obliged to suspend their imports tariffs to the magnitude of the food crisis. Frequent riots experienced in several cities have then raised the deep issue of food security. The purpose of this paper is to identify for the case of Senegal the major causes of food insecurity […]

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Aléas pluviométriques et pauvreté dans les économies du Sahel : le cas du Sénégal.

Résumé Dans cet article, nous simulons, à l’aide d’un modèle d’équilibre général calculable dynamique, l’impact de chocs pluviométriques sur la pauvreté au Sénégal. Les résultats attestent que les périodes de chute pluviométrique correspondent à des phases de hausse de l’incidence de la pauvreté pour toutes les catégories de ménages. Cependant, les périodes d’excédents pluviométriques profitent […]

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