by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall …

Pareto optimum, labor mobility (social capital) is excessively large (depleted); iii) trade is superior to labor market …

This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements … macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained relatively scarce so far, in particular for the Euro area where trade and … from 2002-2012, to test the so-called trade-finance nexus. Since theoretical models stress that both flows might be …

estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as … and adoption of digital technologies are found to have an ambiguous relationship with industrialisation in Africa. The … the negative consequences of adverse geography, improve trade facilitation to exploit learning-by-exporting from intra …

but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional … non-employment. In Africa, there is a decline in paid employment which overwhelms the rise in self-employment and this is …

Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a …

country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later …

In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most … sector countries are concentrated in Western Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Togo), Central Africa … (Cameroun, Republic of Congo) and Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania), with the addition of Mauritius. Countries …