The objective of this paper is to test the presence of barriers to agricultural trade in West and Central Africa. Despite the political and institutional development that promoted free trade within the customs and monetary unions in this region, the surveys conducted by independent regional...

[eng] This paper is based on Prebisch and Singer’s work on the deterioration in the terms of trade of developing economies. Using a game-theory model, we can explain the decline in the cocoa-bean price relative to the price of chocolate bars in the French market. One implication of the model...

This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and fosters forest conversion into agricultural and pasture...

The aim of this paper is to highlight an aspect of devaluation that is generally ignored in the literature, namely its positive impact on the integration of domestic markets of tradable goods. The analysis applies to cattle markets in Burkina Faso where cattle is both a tradable and a capital...

We examine the consequences of land tenure insecurity on economic growth in Brazil. We use an overlapping generations model with two sectors: an agricultural sector and a manufacturing sector. The technology in each sector relies on a specific production factor and labour: land is specific to...