Ce document constitue une tentative d'extrapolation de travaux elabores a l'origine pour analyser, dans un cadre national, les problemes d'allocation des ressources productives. Profitant des evolutions observees au niveau de la Communaute Europeenne, nous avons tache d'explorer a une echelle...

This article aims to analyze the implications of economic integration policies in the convergence or the divergence process among developing countries according to their regional membership. In other words, does or does not regional integration induce the intra- or inter-zone convergence? What...

In this paper the author discusses the fact that economists define optimal IP rights as a continuum of options in three dimensions: height, breadth and length. At the operational level he discusses the impossibility of multiplying rights indefinitely (due to prohibitive transaction costs), as...

This paper presents the first evidence linking directly household consumption profiles to the widely studied institution of sharecropping in developing countries. On the one hand, the theoretical rationale for sharecropping often calls for its risk sharing properties. On the other hand empirical...