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Human capital productivity, endogenous growth and welfare: the role of uncertainty.

Abstract Several policies or interventions have been implemented in developing countries with the ultimate goal of improving educational outcomes and human capital. Although many empirical studies have pointed to mixed results of these interventions, the role of uncertainty arising from the state of nature about the educational environment and household characteristics in the efficiency of […]

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Optimal health investment and preference structure

This paper develops a general equilibrium framework to study the role of preference structure (additive, multiplicative and a convex combination of the two) in connecting consumption, health investment, stock of health and capital, and their effects on the wage rate and on productivity. We show that the elasticities of health production, health investment and health […]

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L’accès des ménages pauvres à l’eau potable dans les banlieues de Dakar

Résumé Le Présent papier s’inscrit dans la faisceau des recherches sur la compréhension des interactions entres les omd, et met l’accent sur l’objectif relatif a l’accès et la disponibilité de l’eau potable. Le Cadre conceptuel qui le sous-tend tient en quatre propositions interdépendantes qui vont servir de charpente au modèle d’analyse. l’Objectif de cette contribution […]

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Libertés et contraintes dans la réglementation du marché des télécommunications en Afrique de l’Ouest : exemple du marché sénégalais

The United States have for years reserved the management pf their telecommunications sector for a single public company, but it later became a private company. The company operated within the framework of a regulation that defined its rights and obligations. It was in the mid-1970s that the deregulation movement originated in the United States, mainly […]

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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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Global Biofuel Production and Poverty in Senegal.

AbstractAssessing the potential effects of a world biofuel boom on a non-oil producing economy like Senegal and on its households is relevant when it comes for policymakers to make a trade-off between fossil energy and biofuel. In this paper, we run a simulation, based on a dynamic, general equilibrium model for the period 2006-2020, to […]

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Déterminants of adoption of Internet in Africa: Case of 17 sub-Saharan countries.

Abstract This study develops two-level hierarchical model that identifies factors that favor or hamper the use of Internet in Africa. We used data from a survey covering 17 African countries. Our results confirm that urbanization and the spread of Internet infrastructures play an important role in individual decisions to adopt this technology. They also reveal […]

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Around the Halls: 2012 Senegal Presidential Election.

Later this month, Senegal will hold the most contentious presidential election since the introduction of a multi-party democratic system in the 1980s. Notwithstanding who wins, the election is bound to have far-reaching implications on the future of the nation. Senegal has long been held as an example of good leadership and stability in West Africa […]

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