Africa has been hard hit by the international crisis. Initially exogenous and above all financial, it has exacerbated various internal crises already present in the region. Like the DRC, which is a test case in many respects, Africa could experience severe setbacks that could cancel out the...

Global Budget Support should contribute to give some sense to the national process of budget allocation. The case of Burkina Faso shows that progress has been made in this direction. Nevertheless, the links between strategies and budgetisation remain weak, namely because of budget dualism. The...

The international financial crisis is likely to produce very different impacts on the various African countries, depending on their degree of openness to commercial and financial flows. The volume of foreign flows is a matter of concern given that exports, loans, public grants and remittances...

Les autorités sénégalaises ont adopté un programme de lutte contre la pauvreté avec le soutien des institutions de Bretton Woods depuis 2002. Afin de tenter d’atteindre les objectifs de réduction de la pauvreté qui ont été fixés par les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement...

Cet article fait un point technique et méthodologique sur les écarts entre agrégats issus des comptes nationaux et des enquêtes auprès des ménages, tant en niveau absolu qu’en évolution, pour la mesure de la consommation et du revenu des ménages, et corrélativement celle de la...

Our paper examines the long run relationship between economic growth and the current account balance equilibrium by relying on the BoP constrained growth model. We find that Vietnam grew less than the rate predicted when the period 1985 to 2010 as a whole is considered, but with different...