Ce papier examine l’effet des augmentations de la rente pétrolière dans les pays voisins du Cameroun, sur la demande d’exportations de produits alimentaires en provenance du Cameroun. En utilisant le modèle de gravité de commerce sur données de panel, il ressort que les ressources...

The aim of this paper is to explore the channels of transmission of the fluctuations in the world price of cocoa to the consumer of chocolate bars in France. This case study can be considered as an illustration of a more general pattern of asymmetric vertical price transmission in the...

Setting: In 2007, WHO recommended introducing rapid Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) culture in the diagnostic algorithm of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of the introduction of rapid non-commercial culture method (Thin Layer Agar)...

Cet article propose une revue de la littérature consacrée à la décentralisation dans les pays en voie de développement. Reprenant la distinction des fonctions de l’État établie par Musgrave (allocation redistribution et stabilisation) ainsi que deux principes généraux - le principe de...

Depuis les années 2000, le Sénégal a adopté des politiques nationales visant la suppression progressive du paiement direct au point de services pour rendre les soins de santé plus accessibles. La mise en place de ces politiques de subvention et de gratuité dans un espace dense...

This paper uses the measure of trade openness proposed by Squalli and Kenneth (2011) to investigate how it affects the Least Developed Countries' structural economic vulnerability. The latter is quantified by the EVI indicator developed by the United Nations Commission for Development Policy....

Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition in the banking industry. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided between the structural and non-structural approaches. The structural approach infers the degree of competition from...

Cette étude analyse l’influence de la pauvreté sur les choix de scolarisation et de travail des enfants à partir des données provenant d’une enquête ménages réalisée par le CERDI, au Mali, en 2009 et en 2011. Ces choix sont a priori considérés comme deux formes particulières...

This article is the first to renews the old debate of "rules versus. discretion" by introducing propensity score matching methods in macro analysis, such as Tapsoba (2012), and by using instrumental methods, to consider the national stability culture. By taking into account, at the same time,...

Destination countries have been resorting to selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination. Screening potential migrants on the basis of...