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The 1987-89 Locust Plague in Mali: Evidences of the Heterogeneous Impact of Income Shocks on Education Outcomes

Vreyer, Philippe De; Guilbert, Nathalie; Mesplé-Somps, … - DIAL - 2012

This paper estimates the long run impact of a large income shock, by exploiting the regional variation of the 1987-1989 locust invasion in Mali. Using exhaustive Population Census data, we construct birth cohorts of individuals and compare those born and living in the years and villages affected...

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Job satisfaction: a measurement of employment quality compared with aspirations in eight African capitals

Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2011

(english) This paper analyzes the level of job satisfaction expressed by individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa. The approach is original in three respects. no in-depth economic study has ever been produced on the determinants of job satisfaction on this continent; the approach aims at isolating the...

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Les enfants non scolarisés en milieu urbain : une comparaison des déterminants intra familiaux, inter familiaux et des effets de voisinage dans sept capitales ouest africaines

Durand, Marie-Hélène - DIAL - 2006

(english) This cross-country study examines the determinants of school attendance through household surveys conducted the same year in seven West African countries. The aim of this comparison, based on the relatively homogeneous population of urban households living in the capitals, is to look...

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La croissance est-elle pro-pauvres au Mali ?

Günther, Isabel; Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Raffinot, Marc - DIAL - 2006

(english) Since the 1994 devaluation, growth has been quite strong in Mali (about 5% p.a. on average), but much weaker in terms of GDP per person (about 2.6% p.a.) due to a very high index of fecundity. Growth is still very unstable, due to a large share of agriculture in GDP and very sensitive...

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Inflation Inequality and the Measurement of Pro-Poor Growth

Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel - DIAL - 2005

The theoretical literature on pro-poor growth as well as its applications have not paid sufficient attention to the issue of varying inflation rates across the income distribution. Ignoring inflation inequality in pro-poor growth measurements can however severely bias assessments of pro-poor...

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Mortality and survivor's consumption

Grimm, Michael - DIAL - 2006

The empirical evidence shows that in developing countries illness shocks can have a severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a household member does not only induce...

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Growth and Poverty in Burkina Faso. A Reassessment of the Paradox

Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel - DIAL - 2005

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were biased due to the neglect of some important methodological issues. This led to the so-called ‘Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox’, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty...

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Politics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi-democracy. The case of Ghana, 1996-2004

André, Pierre; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - DIAL - 2011

and swing districts. Our results, however, suggest that the opposite was true of Ghana. We observe that pro … ballotage séré. Cependant, nous montrons le contraire dans le cas du Ghana. Nous observons que, lorsque le parti NDC était au …-démocratique tel que le Ghana, le gouvernement tout en poursuivant des objectifs électoralistes craint l’instabilité politique et tente …

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Institutions, gouvernance et croissance de long terme à Madagascar : l'enigme et le paradoxe

Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François; … - DIAL - 2013

(english) The classical and more recent theories on development all fail to explain Madagascar’s long-running economic underperformance. This paper proposes a reinterpretation of Malagasy history based on the analytical framework of political economy. Our analyses point to the fact that,...

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Migrants' Home Town Associations and Local Development. Evidence from Mali

Chauvet, Lisa; Gubert, Flore; Mercier, Marion; … - DIAL - 2013

This paper explores the impact of Malian migrants' Home Town Associations (HTAs) located in France on the provision of local public goods in Mali. To this end, we compute an original dataset on all the HTAs that have been created by Malian migrants in France since 1981 and geo-localize their...

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