L’étude du textile à Sfax constitue l’objet analytique de cet article. La première section décrit le secteur à travers son importance pour l’économie régionale et ses caractéristiques de développement dans une dialectique locale de respect et d’évolution des traditions...

In 1990, Côte d'Ivoire privatized the management of its electric power company (lease contracting). In this paper, we are interested in identifying the economic effect of this institutional change. By estimating a stochastic production frontier, we have found that productive efficiency improved...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, sector-based Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is calculated for six Tunisian manufacturing sectors over the period 1983-2002. Economic determinants of the productive performance are also investigated. In doing so, we take care of the direction of the...

Cette étude consiste en une évaluation des conséquences, du point de vue de l'efficience productive, des programmes de redressement des entreprises publiques africaines du secteur de l'électricité. La reflexion est menée avec la toile de fond que procure la théorie des contrats et des...

Throughout the world, deep reforms are being implemented in telecommunications networks. Sub Saharan African Countries are not immune to the dispute of the way the sector has been managed to date, dominated as it was by a technological stability and bilateral institutional arrangements between...

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L'exploration des déterminants de la privatisation est entreprise pour la période 1988-1992. L'estimation de modèles Probit et Tobit sur un échantillon de 35 pays en développement suggère l'impact statistiquement significatif de quatre variables considérées en 1988.Il s'agit du niveau du...

This paper explores the economic determinants of privatization programmes and the macroeconomic impact of this institutional reform on the growth rate of the GDP. A sample of thirty five developing market economies is considered over the 1988-92 period. Probit and Tobit models are used to...

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...

Recent literature suggests that a proactive exchange rate policy in accordance with price incentives (i.e. undervaluation) can foster manufactured exports and growth. This paper is built on these recent developments and investigates, using a sample of 52 developing countries, whether such a...