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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 capacity development in African countries with increased...

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Governance, Democracy and Poverty Reduction: Lessons drawn from household surveys in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America

Herrera, Javier; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, … - DIAL - 2005

in the political class; the “need for the State”, particularly of the poorest; the extent of petty corruption; the … policy monitoring indicators would benefit from being made systematic. _________________________________ (français) La mesure … corruption ; l'efficience des institutions ; la fiabilité des enquêtes-experts sur la gouvernance ; l’appréciation des politiques …

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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

(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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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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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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