The aim of this paper is to study the nature of the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Cameroon through a three-step approach: (i) study the stationarity of the chronic, (ii) test of causality between variables, and (iii) estimate the appropriate model. The study...

This paper brings together the latest data and OECD productivity indicators in different areas with the aim of reviewing the main productivity trends over the past decade, comparing the United States, Europe and to some extent Japan. Concerning economy wide indicators of productivity, the...

During the last half-century, the evolution of educational attainment among Malaysians has been spectacular, and current enrollment rates suggest this progression will continue, albeit at a slower pace. Such a transformation of the educational attainment of labor should bring about macroeconomic...

We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment separately) differs in French, German and U.S. manufacturing, and has changed since the 1974–75 crisis. We use three consistent panel data samples of large firms for 1970–79, and...

In order to understand the effects of FDI on poverty, we construct a simultaneous equations model applied to panel data for Sub-Saharan African countries. The model contains three equations : economic growth, inequality and the rate of absolute poverty. We divide the effects of FDI on poverty in...

Pour l'auteur les drogues ne sont pas interdites mais contrôlées. Après ce constat, il explique que les organisations internationales, des représentants des Etats et des industries pharmaceutiques ont mis en place les structures économiques et juridiques de ce marché des drogues. Les...

La mondialisation illicite, celle du trafic de drogue, du blanchiment et des contrebandiers modernes, est au coeur du dernier numéro de la revue de l'Institut des hautes études de la sécurité intérieure (IHESI). On y trouve, entre autres, un texte de la spécialiste canadienne Louise...