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Politics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi-democracy. The case of Ghana, 1996-2004

André, Pierre; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - DIAL - 2011

and swing districts. Our results, however, suggest that the opposite was true of Ghana. We observe that pro … ballotage séré. Cependant, nous montrons le contraire dans le cas du Ghana. Nous observons que, lorsque le parti NDC était au …-démocratique tel que le Ghana, le gouvernement tout en poursuivant des objectifs électoralistes craint l’instabilité politique et tente …

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Sitting on the fence: Pork-barrels and democratization under threat of conflict. The case of Ghana, 1996 - 2004

André, Pierre; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2013

empirically observe the first democratic changeover in Ghana in 2000. Implementing a diff-in-diff strategy, we find that districts …

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Sitting on the fence: Pork - barrels and democratization under threat of conflict. The case of Ghana, 1996 - 2004

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; André, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

empirically observe the first democratic changeover in Ghana in 2000. Implement- ing a diff-in-diff strategy, we find that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708144

Politics and the Geographic Allocation of Public Funds in a Semi-Democracy. The Case of Ghana, 1996-2004

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; André, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709010

The Allocation of Public Goods and National Elections in Ghana

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; André, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

and swing districts. Our results, however, suggest that the opposite was true of Ghana. We observe that pro …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712479

L'impact des infrastructures publiques sur la compétitivité et la croissance. Une analyse en EGC appliquée au Sénégal

Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2000

This paper analyses the impact of public infrastructure on the competitiveness and growth of the Senegalese economy within the framework of a computable general equilibrium model. Latreille and Varoudakis (1996) demonstrated, in partial equilibrium, that the absence of competitiveness within...

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Migrants' Home Town Associations and Local Development in Mali

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Mercier, Marion; Gubert, Flore; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2015

This paper explores the impact of Malian migrants' Home Town Associations (HTAs) located in France on the provision of local public goods in Mali. To this end, we compute an original dataset on all the HTAs that have been created by Malian migrants in France since 1981 and geo-localize their...

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The Sikasso Paradoxe: Cotton and Poverty in Mali

Delarue, Jocelyne; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Naudet, … - DIAL - 2009

(english) In Mali, the situation of cotton growing households has traditionally been considered as more favorable than that of food crop producers. However, official statistics on poverty suggest that the cotton growing region of Sikasso is among the poorest regions of the country and that...

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Etude sur la croissance partagée au Sénégal, 2001-2005

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine; Robilliard, Anne-Sophie - DIAL - 2010

(english) The objective of this study is to take stock of the economic and social achievements of Senegal during the first part of president Wade’s term of office (2001 to 2006). More specifically, we examine the efficiency of the “Accelerated Growth Strategy” (Stratégie de Croissance...

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Do remittances affect poverty and inequality? Evidence from Mali

Gubert, Flore; Lassourd, Thomas; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - DIAL - 2010

Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to impute a counterfactual income for households currently...

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