This publication examines the role of border regions in shaping patterns of violence since the end of the 1990s in North and West Africa. Using the innovative OECD Spatial Conflict Dynamics indicator (SCDi), the report looks at the growing relationship between political violence and borderlands...

En Afrique de l’Ouest, environ 16 millions de personnes vivent directement ou indirectement de la culture du coton. Or, les subventions du monde développé ont fait baisser le cours du coton, rendant la concurrence difficile pour les producteurs d'Afrique occidentale. Pour compliquer les...

Cette publication analyse les politiques migratoires des principaux pays de l'OCDE accueillant des migrants ouest-africains et analyse les récentes avancées des discussions européennes. Elle met côte à côte les processus d’approche commune qui sont engagés en Europe, en Afrique et...

Economic integration in West Africa is a major political objective for all the States in the region and is supported by the main economic players in the region. The weight of Nigeria -- which accounts for 50% of the regional economy -- the many constraints to formal trade, linguistic barriers,...

This book presents the conclusions of a meeting of the Sahel and West Africa Club in Accra, Ghana, in May 2002 on the following topic : “Towards a Better Regional Approach to Development in West Africa”. Regional cooperation is still only approached from an institutional perspective whilst...

This publication presents contributions by international experts on various aspects of West African migration. It provides a contrasting perspective to current debates which essentially focus on security issues. This rather non-institutional approach promotes a constant dialogue based on...