This paper contributes to the established literature both on the side of fiscal consolidation (for e.g. Alesina and Perotti 1995; Alesina et al. 2010) and that of aid supplies (for e.g. Mosley 1985; Faini, 2006) by investigating the effects of fiscal episodes in OECD donor countries on their aid effort...

Township hospitals, which are an important link of the Chinese rural healthcare system, were affected by the successive socio-economic reforms since the 1980s. As a consequence, their utilization declined. From longitudinal data covering nine years (2000-2008) and 24 township hospitals randomly...

On considère généralement que le développement des secteurs industriels est lié à la croissance ou au développement économique. Il est aussi usuel de considérer que les relatives mauvaises performances des pays africains sont expliquées par des obstacles à l’industrialisation,...

Return migration exerts wide-ranging influence upon the countries of origin of the migrants. We analyze whether returnees adjust their fertility choices to match the norms which prevail in their previous countries of destinations, using Egyptian household-level data. Egyptians migrate...

La Banque Africaine de développement répartit son aide au développement entre pays selon une formule qui repose principalement sur la qualité de la politique économique et de la gouvernance des pays bénéficiaires. L’objet de ce rapport est d’examiner comment faire évoluer la formule...

La hausse des prix des produits agricoles sur les marchés internationaux durant la période 2006-2008 a entraîné une flambée des prix intérieurs dans certains pays en développement, mais pas dans d’autres. La littérature empirique sur la transmission des chocs des prix internationaux...

Over the last two decades, millet prices in Niger have enjoyed periods of spectacular increase during which they seem to go well above their fundamental value. These episodes of price bursts followed by rapid reversals could be attributed to the presence of rational speculative bubbles....

This paper focuses on the sources and consequences of the instability of tax revenue in Sub-Saharan African countries. We take advantage of a unique and extraordinarily rich dataset on the composition of tax revenues for a large number of countries. Using panel data for 39 countries observed...

This paper examines simultaneous versus sequential choice of effort in a twoplayer contest with a general contest success function. The timing of moves, determined in a pre‐play stage prior to the contest‐subgame, as well as the value of the prize is allowed to be endogenous. Contrary to...

This paper assesses whether cities enhance technical efficiency of nearby rural counties, by allowing for heterogeneous urban effects both by regions and by city type. An empirical application is demonstrated using the Chinese county-level agricultural data from 2005 to 2009. Cities are found to...