The forest covers an important share of land area in many developing countries and represents an important source of revenue for governments. The other major contribution to government revenues in developing countries comes from printing money, namely the seigniorage. Using a simple theoretical...

Since the 80s, China became one of the main actors of international trade, after an autarky of thirty years. This is due to an economic policy providing incentives both for national and foreign firms. China is still specialised in labour intensive products, but is also trying to upgrade the...

Community Driven Development (CDD) programs are an extremely important component of the World Bank’s portfolio in the developing world, representing close to $7 billion in 2003, yet solid empirical evidence on their impact is relatively scarce, especially for Subsaharan Africa. In this paper,...

The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, we examine, using a unique dataset collected in the Tunisian village of El Oulja, what might be termed "all or nothing" separability (Benjamin, 1992) by testing, while controling for plot characteristics (Udry, 1996), the proposition that farm input...

To understand the potential impacts of China’s accession to WTO in her new de-sulphur policy (reduction of 10% of SO2 emission in 2005 with respect to that of 2000), we construct a CGE model in which the SO2 emission is linked directly to energy intermediary consumption in production. The...

This study is the continuation of a study led in the savannah area. Its purpose is to describe the economic situation of households subject to malaria risk in Côte d'Ivoire forested region, so as to provide economic indicators which could eventually help explain the expected differences in...

Given the complexity of the issues surrounding the concept of sustainable tourism, the current paper tries to provide a unified methodology to assess tourism sustainability, based on a number of quantitative indicators. The proposed methodological framework (Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool...

In this note we provide a brief survey of the literature about the effects of exports instability in developing countries, mainly focused on commodity dependent economies. Whatever the nature of instability, exports instability generate major disturbances in those economies. Exports instability...

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...

It is frequent, especially in the African context, to find a negative and statistically significant coefficient associated with human capital when it is introduced into the estimation of a plot-level production function. We provide an explanation for this paradox in the context of a...