This paper examines the effects of public financing devoted to agriculture on the performance of the agriculture sector and on the environmental degradation in Ghana over the period 1996-2019. The paper particularly focuses on three tree crops value chains, namely cashew, cocoa and mango...

The objective of this paper is to assess the effects of long-term participation in a mutual health insurance programme on urban households health expenses and vulnerability in Burkina Faso. With data collected in 2013 from a series of interviews with beneficiaries of two mutual health insurance,...

The evaluation of the poverty of beneficiaries is a topic rarely raised as is the impact of microfinance. The different results across studies and contexts are based on methodologies and different technical analyses. Our study contributes to the debate from survey data collected in Mali in 2007...

The microfinance field has become a place of confrontation between different theoretical and empirical approaches. Microfinance would enable a group of people with widely different characteristics and/or unbanked out of the stranglehold of moneylenders, therefore including them financially and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has heavily affected Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys and other national statistics, this study aims to analyze the potential impact of MSMEs-related public policies in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal over the last...