May 2001 - Labor costs in Francophone Africa are considered high by the standards of low-income countries, at least in the formal sector. Workers appear to have some bargaining power and, in Côte d'Ivoire, can force renegotiation of labor contracts in response to new investments. Labor costs in...

This is a book about conflict. In that, it is certainly not alone, but it approaches the problem in four Sahelian countries from the standpoint of economic analysis. The authors have not ignored social, ethnic and historical factors which led to conflict, but have identified economic realities...

Les conflits : tel est le sujet de ce livre. Rien là de bien original si ce n'est qu'il analyse la situation de quatre pays sahéliens d'un point de vue économique. Sans faire abstraction des facteurs sociaux, ethniques et historiques qui sont à l'origine des conflits, les auteurs...

Contents: 1. Introduction and overview -- Part 1: Getting the questions right -- 2: Targets and perpetrators of transnational terrorist attacks -- 3: Why suicide terrorists get educated -- 4: Aid and military intervention in a model of delegated protection -- Part 2: Empirical answers -- 5:...