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This paper investigates the relationship between firm-level productivity and investment climate (IC) for a large number of countries (23) and manufacturing industries (8). We first propose three measures of firms’ productive performances: Labor Productivity (LP), Total Factor Productivity...
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This paper explores the technology-discriminating role of export market participation. Exports are found to enhance firm's productivity, mainly due to the self-selection of more productive firms into export markets and/or the role of learning-by-exporting, suggesting that the underlying...
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This paper analyzes the impact of capital inflows and the exchange rate regime on the real effective exchange rate. A wide range of developing countries (42 countries) is considered with estimation based on panel cointegration techniques. The results show that both public and private inflows...
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L’objectif de ce papier est de faire le point sur l’état de la convergence nominale dans l'Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA). En 1999, les huit pays constitutifs de cette union ont fait vœu d’harmoniser leur politique budgétaire de manière à compléter la gestion...
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Les pays de l’UEMOA ont adopté, en 1999, un pacte de convergence, de stabilité, de croissance et de solidarité. Le but premier du pacte est d’imposer des contraintes aux politiques budgétaires nationales de manière à préserver la crédibilité et la convertibilité de la monnaie...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of six Tunisian manufacturing sectors and to compare these productivities with those of OECD countries. The analysis covers the period 1983-1999. First, TFP is measured and some of the main economic and financial...
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The African industrial structure is characterised by a strong firm-size heterogeneity with a co-existence of small if not micro-enterprises of the informal sector and large formal organisations operating with a modern technology. In this paper, we investigate the technical efficiency of Ivorian...
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Dans tous les pays où l'Etat, affaibli, est incapable de résister au libéralisme des grands organismes financiers internationaux, la privatisation des infrastructures est souvent subie comme une braderie intolérable des intérêts nationaux. Face à l'hostilité que soulèvent ces processus...
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In this paper, we defend the idea that in the African context, non-market co-operation between farmers and ginning companies outperforms market transactions. In the absence of a reliable legal mechanism, market liberalization threatens the sustainability of contractual agreements between farmers...
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L’étude du textile à Sfax constitue l’objet analytique de cet article. La première section décrit le secteur à travers son importance pour l’économie régionale et ses caractéristiques de développement dans une dialectique locale de respect et d’évolution des traditions...
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