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“Accelerated Growth Strategy” (Stratégie de Croissance Accélérée in French or SCA) in the fight against poverty. We start by an … analysis of the macroeconomic foundations of growth in Senegal and then examine the evolution of labor market and social … indicators over the period under study. We show that growth achievements did not meet the targets set by the SCA. Despite the …
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Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim of reducing poverty by half … growth strategy is not really in accordance with the Senegalese Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper …
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) framework to explain the performances of Burkina Faso in terms of economic growth and development. The political history of … medium run – one of the best records in West-Africa. Because of high inequality, this impressive growth is far from inclusive …
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(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 surge after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro …
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(english) Impact evaluation has recently gained significant momentum with good reason, as they help to quantify the social impacts of interventions. With increased importance being attached to evaluation, one spillover effect could be capacity development in African countries with increased...
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The body of literature on purely democratic countries can sometimes fail to explain the behavior of government in semi-democratic African countries. Empirical and theoretical political economic papers find that public funds target ruling party supporters and swing districts. Our results,...
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(english) After debt cancellations, in particular MDRI (Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative) debt ratios in Low Income Country dropped to historic lows. They are now getting into debt again, because of Bretton Woods Institutions (BWI) new loans, of emerging countries’ (namely China) loans, and...
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(english) In this paper, we analyse the size and determinants of gender and ethnic earnings gaps in seven West African capitals (Abidjan, Bamako, Cotonou, Dakar, Lome, Niamey and Ouagadougou) based on a unique and perfectly comparable dataset coming from the 1-2-3 Surveys conducted in the seven...
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(english) In Mali, the situation of cotton growing households has traditionally been considered as more favorable than that of food crop producers. However, official statistics on poverty suggest that the cotton growing region of Sikasso is among the poorest regions of the country and that...
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Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to impute a counterfactual income for households currently...
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