Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim of reducing poverty by half before 2015 (Millennium Development Goal). This article criticizes this program by analysing his pro-poor components. It shows that policies are too much oriented towards...

(English) During the last decades, Senegal has experienced a demographic transition because of the drop of the mortality rate, increase of the life expectancy, and reduction of the fecundity. This transition has started with the urban educated upper class, and it is progressively affecting the...

UNDP Round Tables have been traditionally used to facilitate the dialogue between recipient governments, chiefly in the least developed countries (LDCs), and their main donors. In this document, written for UNDP as part of an evaluation of its Round Table process, we investigate the...

Outre les choix méthodologiques effectués en amont du calcul des agrégats de consommation et de revenu et le non apurement des fichiers de base, plusieurs sources de biais conditionnent la mesure des niveaux de vie et leur distribution. Dans la présente étude appliquée à deux enquêtes...

How fluid are African societies? This paper uses wide-sample nationally representative surveys to set down the first comparative measurement of the extent and features of the social mobility of men in five countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Intergenerational as well as intra-generational mobility...

(english) In Dakar, there exists an antagonism for a woman between working (performing an activity outside of the home) and “working well” (working for the future of her children in correctly taking care of her husband and family-in-law). Even so, more and more women are now encouraged to...

The theoretical literature on pro-poor growth as well as its applications have not paid sufficient attention to the issue of varying inflation rates across the income distribution. Ignoring inflation inequality in pro-poor growth measurements can however severely bias assessments of pro-poor...

This paper analyses whether it is worth taxing the black market. A theoretical optimal tax model provides a first analytical discussion. An empirical version allows us to estimate an optimal tax system for Madagascar. For reasonable inequality aversion parameters, the taxation’s rate of the...

(english) In Senegal, marriage and procreation are strongly associated in the social representations. With the postponement of the age at first marriage, childbearing outside marriage is becoming more frequent. A comparison of two contrasting populations, one from the capital (Dakar) and one...

(English) A period of deep disillusionment followed the wave of enthusiasm provoked by the numerous democratic transitions in Africa in the early 90’s. The setting up of these democratically elected regimes has not in fact pulled Africa out of its economic stagnation. Also this democratisation...