Cette étude présente un amendement à la version sociologique de la théorie du salaire d'efficience en modélisant l'origine de la coopération dans l'entreprise. L'échange d'un salaire élevé contre un niveau d'effort élevé apparaît comme équilibre parfait d'un jeu répété si les...

Sous des conditions bien connues, les gains d'arbitrage du com-merce peuvent être obtenus soit par le commerce des biens (en l'ab-sence de mobilité des facteurs), soit par la mobilité internationale des facteurs (en l'absence de commerce de biens). Il en découle que les résidents d'un pays...

This paper analyzes the determinants of firm survival in Côte d'Ivoire manufacturing Sector. Non parametric and parametric models are used for estimations on 181 firms surve during March 1995 and March 1996 for the World Bank Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED). The main findings...

Le cours parallèle de la naira a chuté peu de temps après la dévaluation du franc CFA en 1994. On construit un modèle théorique simple montrant comment ces deux événements sont probablement reliés, et on présente un test économétrique allant dans ce sens.

Retaining as a “Millennium Development Goal” a decrease by two thirds in child mortality whatever its initial level assumes that the target elasticity of child mortality may be the same in all the developing countries. We show that such an assumption is not perfectly consistent with the...

In this paper we provide empirical evidence of the complementarities between the geographical approach of Diamond (1997) and the institutional approach of Acemoglu et al. (2002) to explain gaps in economic performance worldwide since 11, 000 BC until today. While the biogeographical endowments...

Using the most recent available data on a sample of 40 developing countries, this paper addresses the effects of oil rent on inequality. Mobilizing a dynamic panel data specification over the period 1996–2008, the econometric results yield two important findings. First, there is a non-linear...

Since 2000, Official Development Assistance has played a crucial role in efforts related to the achievement of MDGs. This is especially the case in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) which is the world’s largest recipient of foreign aid. This paper assesses the effectiveness of aid and its efficient use...

Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa; however, the higher likelihood of attending school after puberty has put girls at risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using a panel survey designed to capture the transition from adolescence to early...

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations....