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Using panel unit root tests to evaluate the income convergence hypothesis in middle East and North Africa countries

Guetat, Imène; Serranito, Francisco - HAL - 2005

This article aims at testing the convergence hypothesis in MENA region using new tests of a unit root in panel data. Quah (1994, 1998), Evans & Karras (1996) and Bertrand & Jones (1996) recommend this technique to evaluate the income convergence hypothesis. According to them it avoids...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Macroeconomic Instability And Economic Growth in MENA Countries

Gbakou, Monnet; Jallab, Mustapha Sadni; Sandretto, René - HAL - 2008

This paper aims at analyzing the possible influence of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in the particular case of Middle East and North African countries (MENA). During the last years, the relation between FDI and growth in LDCs has been discussed extensively in the economic...

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Governance and Private Investment in the Middle East and North Africa

Aysan, Ahmet Faruk; Nabli, M.-K.; Veganzones, Marie-Ange - HAL - 2011

This paper addresses the issue of the low level of private investment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, with special emphasis on the role of governance. Based on the existing literature, we have categorized what types of governance institutions are more detrimental to...

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Violence et économie

Giraud, Gaël - HAL - 2010

institutions, l'État et le marché, candidats l'un et l'autre à servir de rempart contre la violence sociale alors que tous deux … constituent des sources majeures de cette violence. C'est qu'au sein de toute institution sociale se loge la possibilité de la … violence. Lutter contre cette dernière ne peut passer, dans le domaine économique, qu'à travers un travail consistant à se …

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Les auditeurs financiers comme pharmakoi modernes : du paradoxe de la légitimité de l'audit

Guenin-Paracini, Henri; Gendron, Yves - HAL - 2006

Les auditeurs financiers sont aujourd'hui perçus de manière paradoxale. Ils nous apparaissent comme simultanément délétères et salvateurs, peu fiables et pourtant dignes de confiance : à la fois légitimes et illégitimes. Le présent article vise à mieux comprendre ce paradoxe-là, peu...

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La GRH confrontée à la diversité HRM CONFRONTING DIVERSITY

Cintas, Caroline; Vatteville, Eric - HAL - 2012

Advocates of diversity management, replacing the economic differences based on traditional analysis of societies (bourgeois and proletarians, rich and poor, employers and employees) for classifications based on skin colour, gender, religion, aim to get across the idea that in a world without...

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

Kuecken, Maria; Thuilliez, Josselin; Valfort, Marie-Anne - HAL - 2013

We examine the middle-run effects 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025920