Ce document expose les nouveaux travaux qui ont été menés sur l’évolution des exportations agroalimentaires de 69 pays entre 1996 et 2006 et cherche à répondre aux questions suivantes : les exportations agricoles au cours de cette période ont-elles davantage augmenté à la marge...

An Indirect Exporter is defined as a firm that sells its product to a trade intermediary in its own country, who then goes on to export the good. Despite the numerous appearances of these firms in recent theoretical models, there has been no empirical work comparing these firms to Domestic firms...

This paper intends to measure the effects of public infrastructures on firms’ productivity from a sample of 10 subsectors of the Senegalese modern sector. The model used for that purpose is based on the decomposition of the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth which includes the contribution...

Ideas and values of "sustainable development" are transfered from the international to the national level in policy-making processes and give way to a recomposition of rural development policies : we study that policy transfert. In Mali and Madagascar, sustainable development policies are quite...

(VF)Après la vague d’information, les normes ISO 9000 constituent sans aucun doute l’effort organisationnel le plus important ces dix dernières années permettant de rendre visibles les savoirs de l’entreprise. Mais on sait encore peu de choses sur les conséquences de cette codification...

This article is an attempt to show that China's post-socialist transformation involved a change in its growth regime. Indeed, during the Maoist era, it took the form of a "forced growth" as theorized by Kornai (1972). In addition, "export aversion" was one of the main characteristics of Chinese...

Does the deepening of bilateral trade between Cameroon and Nigeria strengthen the links between their economic cycles in such a way as to eventually lead to a synchronous evolution? This is the question we attempt to answer here. To do this, two approaches are highlighted: the cycle approach on...

The intensification of international trade, reinforced by the interconnection of financial markets and the appearance of common economic shocks are the elements that contribute to explaining the co-movements of advanced and sub-Saharan economies. In this study, it is a question of measuring the...