Firm productive performances in five Middle East and North African (MENA) economies and eight manufacturing industries are compared to those in 17 other developing countries. Although the broad picture hides some heterogeneity, enterprises in MENA often performed inadequately compared to MENA...

Firm productive performances in five Middle East and North African (MENA) economies and eight manufacturing industries are compared to those in 17 other developing countries. Although the broad picture hides some heterogeneity, enterprises in MENA often performed inadequately compared to MENA...

This paper analyzes the impact of capital inflows and the exchange rate regime on the real effective exchange rate. A wide range of developing countries (42 countries) is considered with estimation based on panel cointegration techniques. The results show that both public and private inflows...

[eng] African countries have launched a process of privatization (lato sensu) of their public utilities. We suggest that where there is no transfer of management the strengthening of the private sector may not be sufficient to induce improvement of organizational efficiency. Privatization may...

[eng] Patrick Plane and Claire Salmon — Trade unionism and technical efficiency : a practical analysis to Bangladeshi firms. . The impact of trade union activity on the economic variables of firms has not been much studied, especially in developing countries. The authors of this paper...