Although a growing body of literature emphasizes that the poor may benefit from better access to financial services through more growth and employment opportunities, there is a continuing debate about the mechanism and extent to which such access would reduce inequalities. Considering that labor...

Using Cameroonian data, this paper investigates the effects of social network on job quality. Social network is measured in terms of using friends and relatives while looking for a job. As regards to job quality, two aspects have been taken into consideration: monetary job quality which is...

We question whether the use of social networks to exit unemployment matters in Cameroon. We develop an empirical model which allows us to address this issue in a convenient way. We propose a methodology based on the well known Heckman (1976) two-step procedure to account for both simultaneity...

The idea according to which capital flow may be complements and/or substitutes is nowadays a recurrent theme both within academia and among international donors. However, little attention has been devoted to this issue in the specific case of fragile states. The main contribution of this paper...

Using a sample of 33 sub-Saharan African countries during the period of 2000-2010, this paper examines the effect of health aid on health outcomes. After taking into account the endogeneity and using the instrumental variable approach, the results reveal that health aid help improving health...

There are several studies investigating the willingness to pay (wtp) for environmental goods. Most of these studies highlight the fact that the relationship between the WTP for environmental good and the GDP per capita is an inverted U shaped one. In other words, the low income countries,...

This paper investigates the impact of political uncertainty on economic activity in Togo over the period 2004-2018. Using Google Trends’ Search Volume Index, interacted with the Local Projection technique, I trace the impact of political uncertainty over several quarters, allowing...