Publications

This paper examines whether the loan strategy of a microfinance institution is shaped by the entry of a bank. Specifically, we investigate whether the distance between a borrower of a microfinance institution and the closest bank influences loan conditions provided by the microfinance institution…

The paper investigates the pace of technology adoption in telecom technology post liberalization and its effect on stock returns using a new global panel dataset. Results are twofold. First, evidence points to the complementarity between telecom liberalization and regulatory independence in drivi…

African countries are negotiating the African Continental Free Trade Area with the aim to spearhead global value chain (GVC) trade among African countries as a driver for robust economic growth. This paper evaluates the participation of sub-Saharan African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in …

As happened in West Africa in 2008, in an imported inflation context, it is common for the governments to take short-term tax action to protect the poor: VAT or trade tariffs exemptions. As part of the tax-tariff transition, the comparison between Trade tariffs and VAT has already been the subjec…

The COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity to renew the “social contract.” The disease reinforces the role of the state in protecting against health risk and in its social transfer programs to shield the citizenry against the economic consequences of the health crisis. COVID-19 has thus reasserted the…

China’s exports of manufactured goods to African countries, stimulated by a real appreciation of several African currencies vis-à-vis the renminbi, have grown especially rapidly. This did not however prevent African countries from a higher growth rate of manufacturing value added than the precede…

La taxe sur les appels internet via WhatsApp, Skype ou Viber a déclenché de nombreuses protestations au Liban entraînant la crise politique du pays quelques mois plus tard. De nombreux autres pays, particulièrement en Afrique sub-saharienne (comme l’Ouganda, la Zambie, ou encore le Kenya) ont ins…

Cet article propose (i) une nouvelle base de données des recettes fiscales de 42 pays d’Afrique subsaharienne sur la période 1980-2015, (ii) une estimation de l’effort fiscal pour ces pays et (iii) une réplication d’estimations précédentes de l’effort fiscal. La base de données provient des stati…

Excess male morbidity and mortality is well recognised in neonatal medicine and infant health. In contrast, within global nutrition, it is commonly assumed that girls are more at risk of experiencing undernutrition. We aimed to explore evidence for any male/female differences in child undernutrit…