Using comparable data from five West African capitals, we assess the rationale behind development policies targeting …

other side, a lack of energy is a major bottleneck for further economic development in Cameroon. …

Africa? This paper uses the differences in development outcomes across the areas of the former French West Africa to show the … existence of colonial long term effects on development paths. To correct from potential biases, I take carefully into account … determinant of current development of the districts of the former French West Africa. First, the African chiefs’ association to …

appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality …

. The second measures the extent of the gender performance gap among informal entrepreneurs and explores the existence of … gender-differentiated effects of sharing norms and the allocation of tasks within the household on the technical efficiency …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

highlight a definite gender pattern, with a strong association between early disadvantage and obesity in women, but not in men …