This paper investigates the extent to which different measures of trust are connected to a community's ability to undertake collective action. The objective is to clarify what trust measurement method is better at explaining how heterogeneous individuals manage to engage in joint activities,...

Because of limited governmental resources, communities in Africa often rely on collective action to provide basic public goods such as schools. What drives the ability of communities to produce better schools? Two important lines of research shaped our understanding of the ability of communities...

French Abstract: Les inégalités d'accès à la santé constituent une préoccupation majeure des pouvoirs publics dans les pays en voie de développement. Dans ce document, nous cherchons à comprendre les sources de ces inégalités en utilisant une base de données d'enquête du DHS de 12...

This paper attempts an empirical examination of the interaction between corruption, political instability and the mortality rate, as well as their transmission mechanisms in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use panel VAR techniques to test the causality and the cointegration between these three variables...

We determine the optimal policy to cope with information concealment in a hierarchy where a principal relies on a supervisor to obtain verifiable information about an agent's output. Depending on the information he has obtained, the informed supervisor may either collude with the agent or with...

The two episodes of food price surges in 2007 and 2011 have been particularly challenging for developing and emerging economies' central banks and have raised the question of how monetary authorities should react to such external relative price shocks. We develop a new-keynesian small...