The objective of this study is to investigate empirically the links between property rights and the size of the informal sector, taking into account the presence of corruption. To meet up with our objective, this paper made use of a data set of 112 countries from the ICRG, Medina, and Schneider...

This article aims to quantify the COVID-19 impact using both partial equilibria (PE) and computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling on four countries and regions of the world including the United States of America (USA), the European Union (EU), China (CHN) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The...

The main objective of this paper is to contribute to in-depth literature on the relationship between growth and the informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic performance (increase or decrease of the informal sector)...

This paper is interested in explaining the causes of the simultaneous evolution between economic growth and informality. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577,...

This paper empirically explores the effect of the size of the informal economy on environmental performance in Africa. Using secondary data from various sources (http://epi.yale.edu, Medina Schneider 2018, WDI 2019) from a panel of 25 countries over the period 2000-2016, we show by several...

This paper contributes to the literature on the relationship between gender and the environment. There are indeed very few studies on this topic, and existing studies have not yet investigated the channels through which women's presence in parliaments affects the environment. We use a stochastic...

The main objective of this paper is to contribute to in-depth literature on the relationship between growth and the informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic performance (increase or decrease of the informal sector)...

This paper is interested in explaining the causes of the simultaneous evolution between economic growth and informality. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577,...

The main objective of this paper is to contribute to in-depth literature on the relationship between growth and the informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic performance (increase or decrease of the informal sector)...

This paper is interested in explaining the causes of the simultaneous evolution between economic growth and informality. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577,...