This paper investigates the relationship between firm-level productivity and investment climate (IC) for a large number of countries (23) and manufacturing industries (8). We first propose three measures of firms’ productive performances: Labor Productivity (LP), Total Factor Productivity...

This article analyses the productive performance in four manufacturing sectors of the Ivorian economy: textiles and garments, metal products, food processing, wood and furniture. To appraise the productive performance, econometric production frontier models are estimated, illustrating the...

This paper first analyzes the impact of capital inflows on the real effective exchange rate for a sample of 42 emerging and developing countries over the period 1980–2006. The results from the pooled mean group estimator show that both public and private inflows are associated with an...

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...

[fre] Nasser Ary Tanimoune Patrick Plane Performance et convergence des politiques économiques en zone franc. L'objectif de cet article est de faire le point sur l'état de la convergence nominale dans l'Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA). En 1999, les huit pays...

[fre] Les pays en développement sont engagés dans un processus de privatisation. Les fondements économiques de ces politiques se trouvent aussi bien au niveau microéconomique que macroéconomique. En étoffant leur secteur parapublic, de nombreux pays en développement espéraient une...

This paper investigates the competitiveness of the four economies. The second section briefly examines competitiveness through the macroeconomic performance or the ability these countries had to promote, over the past decades, a sustainable external and internal balance. Section 3 is devoted to...

[fre] Efficience technique et incitations managériales dans l'industrie ivoirienne. Estimation de frontières de production sur données de panel. . On étudie la sensibilité de l'efficience technique des firmes à leur stratégie de gestion des ressources humaines. Des frontières de...