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La fuite des cerveaux incite-t-elle la scolarisation ?

Boussichas, Matthieu - HAL - 2011

L'émigration de travailleurs issus des pays en développement vers ceux dits développés est relativement plus qualifiée que la moyenne mondiale des travailleurs. Ceci engendre pour certains de ces PED une perte directe en capital humain non-négligeable. Une vision "optimiste" (Stark(1997))...

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Brain drain, R&D-cost differentials and the innovation gap

Mariani, Fabio - HAL - 2008

terms of R&D and innovation. High-skilled migration, ultimately linked to differences in R&D costs, might be responsible for … complements, we show that allowing labor outflows may strengthen educational incentives in the lagging economy if migration is … affected, and a positive migration chance is very unlikely to act as a substitute for educational subsidies. …

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Selective immigration policies, human capital accumulation and migration duration in infinite horizon

Magris, Francesco; Russo, Giuseppe - HAL - 2005

assumption has recently been dropped: a large literature studies the optimal migration duration in an intertemporal framework. In … our work we study how selective immigration policies affect the human capital accumulation and the migration duration … two periods: there is no reason to consider a single migration spell, and our infinite-horizon model includes an aggregate …

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Why Migrants' Remittances Reduce Income Inequality in some Countries and not in Others?

Ebeke, Christian; Goff, Maëlan Le - HAL - 2011

countries, in the costs of migration and in the level of brain drain. Using a panel sample of 80 developing countries over the …

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Presidential elections and the manipulation of exam success rate in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ebeke, Christian; Etoundi, Mireille Ntsama - HAL - 2011

This paper investigates whether the exam success rate in Africa increases significantly in the months prior to the occurrence of the presidential elections. It hypothesizes that the incumbent is tempted to increase the exam success rate to retain a form of social cohesion and to 'buy' votes. A...

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The Rise of China in Sub-Saharan Africa: its Ambiguous Economic Impacts

Sindzingre, Nicole Alice - HAL - 2011

The paper analyses the economic relationships between China and Sub-Saharan African countries, including original contractual relationships that link exports from Sub-Saharan Africa to China and investment by Chinese firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Unlike the 'traditional' partners of Sub-Saharan...

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Accounting for the effects of AIDS on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cahu, Paul; Fall, Falilou - HAL - 2011

In this paper, we first, perform a quantitative assessment of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on growth. Second, we precisely account for the effects of the epidemic on income per capita through human and physical capital accumulations, population and labor force. That is, we disentangle the...

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Does malaria control impact education? A study of the Global Fund in Africa

Kuecken, Maria; Thuilliez, Josselin; Valfort, Marie-Anne - HAL - 2014

We examine the middle-run eff ects of the Global Fund's malaria control programs on the educational attainment of primary schoolchildren in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a quasi-experimental approach, we exploit geographic variation in pre-campaign malaria prevalence (malaria ecology) and variation...

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Refining opportunity cost estimates of not adopting GM cotton : An application in seven sub-saharan african countries

Bouet, Antoine; Gruere, Guillaume - HAL - 2010

A computable general equilibrium model is applied to evaluate the opportunity costs of not adopting Bt cotton, a genetically-modified (GM) insect resistant cotton, in Benin, Burkina- Faso, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, and Uganda when it is adopted in other countries. Our model uniquely employs...

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Are There Myths on Road Impact and Transport in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Beuran, Monica; Gachassin, Marie Castaing; Raballand, Gaël - HAL - 2013

As planned large investments in road infrastructure continue to be high on the agenda of many African countries, only few of these countries have actually ammended their investments strategy. In many cases, there seems to be a preference for a status quo that can easily be explained by political...

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