L’objet de cet article est d’analyser l’impact des nouvelles technologies sur la réduction de la pauvreté au Maroc. Très peu d’études scientifiques analysent les impacts socio-économiques de l’utilisation des téléphones mobiles dans la fourniture des services financiers dans les...

Public statistics face quite a challenge when it comes to measuring new dimensions of development (institutions, governance and social and political participation). Based on the experience acquired by the 123 survey in Bamako in 2001, the Malian National Statistics Office has appended three...

Since the 1994 devaluation, growth has been quite strong in Mali (about 5%), but much weaker in terms of GDP per person (about 2.6%) due to a very high index of fecundity (6.8). Growth is still very unstable, due to a large share of agriculture in GDP (40%) and very sensitive to rainfall and...

In Turkey, between 1994 and 2005, growth has been pro-poor in terms of rate of growth of income, but not in absolute values. This result is debatable. Firstly because the poorest (centiles 0 to 20) did increase more than the average their expenditures on health and education, which should be...

We examine the contribution of FDI on poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1990 to 2005. The effects of FDI on poverty are analyzed through two mechanisms: institutional and economic. First, analyzing the institutional mechanism by a principal component analysis, we find out that...