La politique monétaire conduite par la Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO) souffre d'une faible efficacité, au regard de l'absence de liaisons existant entre l'objectif de lutte contre l'inflation que l'Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA) lui a...

</titre> The cotton sectors of western and central Africa are the place of important transformations which articulate for the main part, around a guideline : the connection of the cotton producers to the world market is their only way of perennisation. This article tries to show that the analysis of...

[eng] Kako Nubupko and Pierre Janin — Incertitudes and « grain games » in West Africa : What policy lessons ?. Studies on food insecurity in West Africa are still often based on deterministic or accounting presumptions whereby the role of actors, the logics of action and the perceptions, or...

The monetary policy conducted by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) faces many challenges, including the need to fight against inflation, which is driven mainly by the volatility of commodity prices on international markets. It is also fall to common criticisms about the lack of...

The recent economic and financial crisis in the euro area seems to question the theoretical solutions to coordinate economic policies in monetary unions. In this paper, we adress the current system of economic policy coordination within the WAEMU during 1994-2010. Using game theory and...

Studies on food insecurity in West Africa are still often based on deterministic or accounting presumptions whereby the role of actors, the logics of action and the perceptions, or even the sociohistorical contexts, appear to be minimised. In this text, we attempt, using the theoretical...

More than fifteen years after the creation of the West African Economic and Monetary Union and in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the West African Monetary Union, it seems advisable to make an assessment of the connection between the common monetary policy, whose implementation is within...