(english) This article aims at analysing the impact of the Euro-Tunisian Association Agreement and the Multifiber Agreement dismantling on employment in Tunisia. For this purpose we develop a multisectoral and intertemporal general equilibrium model taking account of the dynamic effects of these...

La société togolaise en majorité chrétienne et animiste est marquée par une importante et croissante présence des femmes dans la vie économique mais essentiellement dans les activités précaires du secteur informel. A Lomé, la capitale, le commerce est une activité féminine par...

(English) Evolutions in matrimonial behaviour reveal profound changes in society. Current transitions in nuptiality in African cities can be mainly accounted for by the increase in schooling for girls, but also by growing economic difficulties that tend to weaken traditional systems governing...

(English) The wind of democratisation, which has been blowing across Sub-Saharan Africa for the last decade, must be considered as a superb opportunity for public statistics. The increase in power of the civil society and the liberation of the media have opened up a dynamic public space where...

(English) In a concern to go further than a simple static report and to address poverty in its immense complexity, this study analyses its evolution over a period of time in relation to the macro-economic and social dynamics at work in Africa. On the basis of a certain number of elements of...

(english) This paper presents an analysis of the attitudes of the poor towards the double – political (democratisation) and economic (liberalisation) – transition process in which many developing countries are engaged today. The most common belief to explain the difficulty to implement...

Comparing the returns of public and private education supposes to deal with the integration in the labour market because the first job gives a minimal experience. Combined with the educational attainment, it will ensure a real efficiency of the participation to the productive system. In the...

(english) This articles aims at discussing different labour market modelling choices used in applied general equilibrium models and the consequences of these choices on the results obtained when simulating various tax policy shocks with AGE models. Taking into account the imperfect functioning...

(english) The success of export processing zones in Madagascar, or Zone Franche, since 1990 is an isolated case in Africa, apart from Mauritius. This paper explains that Zone Franche has had a very significant macro-economic impact in terms of exports and jobs. Thanks to Zone Franche, before the...