[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...

What does governance mean for the World Bank (WB) and how far does the organization influence the world community with this concept? The World Bank primarily focused on economic aspects of governance in the 1980s and progressively moved to its political dimensions in the end of 1990s. The paper...

Recent literature suggests that a proactive strategy consisting of deliberate real exchange rate depreciation can promote exports diversification and growth. This paper is built on these recent developments and investigates whether four developing countries have adopted such a strategy. Data...

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...

Production frontiers and inefficiency determinants are estimated by using stochastic models. Textile manufacturing is considered for a sample of eight developing countries encompassing about one thousand firms. We find that the most influential individual inefficiency determinants relate to...

What does governance mean for the World Bank (WB) and how far does the organization influence the world community with this concept? The World Bank primarily focused on economic aspects of governance in the 1980s and progressively moved to its political dimensions in the end of 1990s. The paper...