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(english) Democratic Republic of Congo has known dramatic events for the last three decades. Statistical social economic data did not exist really or not available in the period. The Informal Sector survey, the second phase of the 1-2-3 survey, carried out in 2004-2005 and conducted by the...
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(english) This study aims at assessing the impact of a microfinance institution serving micro-entrepreneurs in … Antananarivo (Madagascar). It starts by reviewing the recent literature on the socioeconomic impact of microfinance, then moves on …. _________________________________ (français) Cette étude s’attache à analyser l’impact d’une institution de microfinance opérant auprès de microentrepreneurs à …
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(english) This article highlights the main findings of an evaluation report on the impact of a microfinance program … based in Antananarivo. It first provides background information on microfinance programs in Madagascar and on the market …-demand for micro-loans. It then describes the main characteristics of the participants to the microfinance program under concern …
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(english) This article sets out to investigate the reasons why some household businesses decide to register and become formal (while others do not) in order to shed light on the origins of informality. We use qualitative as well as quantitative data on household businesses (HB) derived from...
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(english) The strong growth of the Vietnamese economy over the last two decades has brought about sweeping economic and social changes. In particular, there has been a sharp downturn in poverty along with an upturn in social inequalities (albeit not as sharp as in China). This makes the question...
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In spite of rapid economic growth for the last decades, the informal economy still has a predominant weight in Vietnam …’ instigation. The first part highlights the major role played by the informal sector in employment in Vietnam, describes its … économique rapide enregistrée au Vietnam au cours des dernières décennies, l’économie informelle conserve un poids prédominant …
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"choosing" the informal sector in Vietnam, a massive and unknown component of the Vietnamese economy. Instead of focusing on …’attache à explorer la question des déterminants du « choix » du travail dans le secteur informel au Vietnam, une composante …
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This paper uses exhaustive individual-level data from the Malian 1976, 1987 and 1998 censuses to analyze the urbanization process and economic specialization of cities in Mali. We first construct an exhaustive panel data set of the 10,000 Malian localities. In order to analyze urban areas that...
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new jobs become a less acute problem. As Vietnam benefits of the demographic dividend, the situation on the labour market … Vietnam profite actuellement du dividende démographique. …
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equilibrium by relying on the BoP constrained growth model. We find that Vietnam grew less than the rate predicted when the period … hindered by a high ‘appetite’ for imports coming from Asia. We also assess the impact of the current crisis on Vietnam’s growth … contrainte par la balance des paiements, notre papier examine la relation de long terme au Vietnam entre la croissance économique …
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