We examine the contribution of FDI on poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1990 to 2005. The effects of FDI on poverty are analyzed through two mechanisms: institutional and economic. First, analyzing the institutional mechanism by a principal component analysis, we find out that...

Presents the experiences, strategies and problems, and particularly its social impact relating to reforms in the port of Veracruz, Mexico.

Mexico has achieved a high degree of decentralisation in public services, but the Mexican fiscal federal system has important shortcomings. States and municipalities have become heavily dependent on federal transfers to finance a growing share of public spending. This leaves the burden of...

The current monetary policy framework in several Latin American countries, combining inflation targeting and a floating exchange-rate regime, has contributed to disinflation by anchoring expectations around low, stable levels. This paper uses co-integration analysis to estimate simultaneously a...

Une analyse de pauvreté basée sur une approche non monétaire permet de cerner plusieurs aspects du phénomène de la pauvreté qui ne sont pas toujours ciblés par l’approche monétaire. Une analyse de pauvreté basée sur la combinaison des deux approches permet alors de mesurer ce...

Productivity growth has declined since the late 1990s, slowing the catching-up process. Structural reforms to strengthen competition, entrepreneurship and innovation would go a long way toward enhancing it. Recent competition policy reforms that strengthen enforcement of cartel law must now be...

L’idée d’imposer un minimum de règles sociales dans le commerce international a suscité de longs débats, mais l’Organisation mondiale du commerce a finalement renoncé à les introduire dans son agenda de négociations multilatérales en 1996. Toutefois, face à ce vide juridique que...