Ce papier fournit des arguments historiques et empiriques dont le but est d?expliquer le développement du secteur informel en Egypte. Après avoir rappelé les différentes approches proposées dans la littérature, il identifie la configuration du marché du travail Egyptien tout en permettant...

This anthropological study, conducted in Cotonou, Benin between 2005 and 2007, investigates the informal pharmaceuticals market. It was carried out through a long-term participant observation of informal vendors and semi-directive and unstructured interviews. A classification of products sold in...

This paper explains a puzzling feature of China's industrial financing, i.e., an extremely low share of domestic loans and an unusually high share of 'self-raised funds and others' in a developing country. After an overview of historical patterns of financial industrialization in other...

This paper focuses on analyzing data collected in situations where investigators use multiple discrete indicators as surrogates, for example, a set of questionnaires. A very flexible latent class model is used for analysis. We propose a Bayesian framework to perform the joint estimation of the...