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Accessible, affordable and qualitative public service delivery is critical for the well-being of populations living in developing countries and for the functioning of their economy, but these services are often undermined by market imperfections and weak institutions (Aker, 2017). In light of the…
The objective of this report is to provide an in-depth review of the digitization of public service provision in Sub-Saharan Africa in general and West Africa in particular by highlighting both the opportunities and the challenges faced by digital initiatives multiplication in the region.
Une partie du monde est depuis 2021 sous le coup de deux menaces économiques ; le retour d’une inflation forte, et peut-être durable ; un ralentissement marqué de la croissance économique, voire une récession à plus ou moins large échelle. Les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne n’échappent pas à ces tu…
In this paper, we highlight a new dimension of the submarine cable infrastructure network, termed ‘digital connectedness’, reflecting a country’s digital proximity to main world markets, and assess its impact on export upgrading. Adopting an instrumental variables approach conducted in a sample o…
In the general presentation of the criteria that the MVI should meet, we emphasized the importance of the way by which the three dimensions of the MVI are averaged in a single index and the need to limit the substitutability between them, so that the specific vulnerability of each country can be …
Expansion of Global Value Chains (GVCs) is a mixed blessing for the environment. Effects of growth and emissions from transport associated with international trade have negative effects; but greater flows of knowledge and associated spillovers, and adoption of environmentally innovative products …
The United Nations should entrust the World Bank Group with a clear mandate on global climate stability by monitoring countries’ commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions. …/… Blog sur https://www.devex.com.
This paper examines how firms bounce back after a short, albeit severe, civil conflict. Thanks to a rich firm-level database, we follow surviving enterprises before, during and after the 2011 post-electoral crisis in Côte d’Ivoire. Main findings are summarized as follows. First, recovery was rapi…
Les chocs adverses représentent des défis cruciaux pour les pays engagés dans le processus d’intégration régionale du fait de leurs effets néfastes et, parfois, asymétriques sur les différentes économies. Étant donné que les processus d’intégration régionale influencent le fonctionnement des État…
Despite low numbers of COVID-19 infections, most African countries have implemented very restrictive sanitary measures to protect their health systems since the start of the pandemic. While of crucial importance in preventing a surge of the epidemic, the drastic sanitary measures adopted by most …