À la suite d’un Livre Vert consacré à l’esprit d’entreprise, la Commission européenne s’est récemment inquiétée du déficit d’entrepreneurs de l’Europe par rapport aux États-Unis. Cet article présente un modèle de commerce international avec incertitude qui étudie les...

The study aims at examining the assumption of a “Barcelona agreement” effect on the convergence of Morocco economy. The concept of convergence will be approached according three logics: convergence of Morocco economy towards its own steady state; towards the others countries of the Agreement...

A panel data analysis is used to evaluate the effects on openness/inequalities relationship of such factors as factor endowments, associated trade diversification paths, openness of low wage Asiatic countries and technological bias in imports. The focus is on Latin America. Predictions of...

The study aims at examining the assumption of a “Barcelona agreement” effect on the convergence of Morocco economy. The concept of convergence will be approached according three logics: convergence of Morocco economy towards its own steady state; towards the others countries of the Agreement...

The paper aims at assessing the net impact of the accumulation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) capital on the economy. In a first part, focusing on the supply-side of the economy, we show that the growth accounting methodology cannot provide us with a measure of the net...

Exploring the economic consequences of demographic changes is often carried out within simple accounting frameworks. Such approaches consist of projecting the impact of ageing on social security expenditures under exogenous assumptions about economic growth, productivity, wages and employment....

In France, the number of years of schooling is high, and so is spending on education. Over the past thirty years, spending per student has increased, in particular because of the growing importance of the secondary and tertiary levels. What, more generally, is the impact of education on the...

This article examines the effect of remittances on economic growth, highlighting the main transmission channels. Using the SGMM method, estimates based on data from 27 developing countries show that remittances have a positive and significant effect on economic growth. The results don’t allow...

While Canada's economic record over the past decade or so is enviable, GDP per capita remains distinctly below US levels, reflecting a sizeable productivity gap. Among the impediments to faster growth are the taxation of capital and restrictive regulations in certain sectors. Canada's experience...