In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) the informal sector is a major engine for employment, entrepreneurship and growth. The high incidence of corruption is another distinctive feature of SSA. According to the last Transparency International Corruption Perception Index almost 70% of SSA countries ranked...

We examine FDI’s effects of on domestic investment in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our model’s assumptions are inspired from the theoretical model of Agosin and Mayer (2001). Two assumptions have special interest: (i) the first is that multinational firms crowd-out local firms ; (ii) the second...

In this article, the effect of a change in the distribution of age differences between sexual partners on the dynamics of the HIV epidemic is studied. In a gender and age structured compartmental model, it is shown that if the variance of the distribution is small enough, an increase in this...

This paper empirically analyzes the influence of road proximity on HIV- infection using geographical data on road infrastructure and the Demographic and Health Surveys collected in six African countries. Firstly we show that living in proximity to a major road increases the individual risk of...

Does female empowerment evolve over the life cycle, and has it changed across generations? We use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys covering a sample of about 191,000 adult women to evaluate the age, period and cohort effect regarding individual attitudes to marital violence....

This paper addresses the issue of the positive observed relationship be- tween GDP and HIV prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa. We examine the role of the volatility of GDP per capita in lowering the incentives to invest in self-protection and, empirically, in the spread of the epidemic. Using a...

In this paper, we analyze the determinants and the final use of remittances of migrants settled in France sending remittances to the southern Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan African countries. Research using microdata is very scarce in this region; we rely on a specially designed survey (2MO) we...

This paper questions the positive relationship between HIV prevalence and income in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we hypothesize that a greater economic instability would reduce the incentives to engage in self-protective behaviors inducing people to increasingly take the risk of...

Given the low condom use and high prevalence in some African countries, this paper addresses the question of whether these evidences are driven by a supply-side or a demandside issue. The role of road infrastructures on HIV/AIDS outcomes is investigated using data from the Demographic and Health...

ERP systems have currently become tools that enable organizations to standardize business processes. They offer rich functionalities based on best practices. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of this standardisation on organizations with reference to the different theoretical...