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Taille des villes, urbanisation et spécialisations économiques; Une analyse sur micro-données exhaustives des 10 000 localités maliennes

Bernard, Claire; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Spielvogel, Gilles - DIAL - 2012

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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Conditions de vie dans un quartier pauvre de Djibouti : analyse de l’enquête de référence pour évaluer l’impact d’un projet de développement urbain intégré à Balbala

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - DIAL - 2011

This study aims at analyzing the standard of living of the Balbala residents in Djibouti, whose will benefit from an integrated urban development project (PDUI). The objective of the PDUI project is to improve standard of living of 30,000 people in three districts of Balbala, by developing basic...

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Supervision and Project Performance: A Principal-Agent Approach

Chauvet, Lisa; Collier, Paul; Fuster, Andreas - DIAL - 2015

This paper extends and applies principal-agent theory to the performance of donor projects. There is variation in the degree of divergence between the interests of the donor (the principal) and the recipient government (the agent). Further, the effort expended on observation of the agent is a...

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Report on Impact Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mendiratta, Vibhuti - DIAL - 2011

(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 …. The database is available on African Impact Evaluation Network (http://www.africaien.org/impactevaluation- projects …

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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

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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Partenaires émergents : quels enjeux pour la soutenabilité de la dette africaine ?

Dahoun, Dieudonné Bleossi; Raffinot, Marc - DIAL - 2012

(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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Decomposing Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Seven West African Cities

Nordman, Christophe; Robilliard, Anne-Sophie; Roubaud, … - DIAL - 2009

(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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The Sikasso Paradoxe: Cotton and Poverty in Mali

Delarue, Jocelyne; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Naudet, … - DIAL - 2009

contradictoire. Dans tous les instruments de pilotage, de conception et d’évaluation des politiques publiques, la collecte et le …

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Etude sur la croissance partagée au Sénégal, 2001-2005

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Robilliard, Anne-Sophie - DIAL - 2010

(english) The objective of this study is to take stock of the economic and social achievements of Senegal during the first part of president Wade’s term of office (2001 to 2006). More specifically, we examine the efficiency of the “Accelerated Growth Strategy” (Stratégie de Croissance...

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Do remittances affect poverty and inequality? Evidence from Mali

Gubert, Flore; Lassourd, Thomas; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - DIAL - 2010

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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