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In recent decades, international connectivity has improved significantly with the worldwide deployment of some 400 fiber submarine cables (SMCs), transmitting more than 99% of international telecommunications. If sub-Saharan African (SSA) has long remained excluded from this interconnection proce…
Dès sa création en 2003 le conseil d’administration de la Ferdi a pu s’enorgueillir d’avoir comme président d’honneur l’ancien grand Président de la République (1974-1981), devenu plus tard un exceptionnel Président de Région (1986- 2004). Son lien avec la Ferdi et précédemment avec le Cerdi étai…
We estimate the tax burden on the mobile telecommunication sector in twenty-five African countries. This tax burden encompasses not only standard and particular taxes under the control of the Ministry of Finance (MoF), but also fees raised by national telecommunication Regulatory Agency (RA). Giv…
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…
During the last decades, international connectivity has improved significantly with the worldwide deployment of some 400 fiber submarine cables (SMCs), transmitting more than 99% of international telecommunications. If sub-Saharan African (SSA) has long remained excluded from this interconnection…
Treaties implemented by Regional Organizations (ROs) among which the eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have piloted integration across the African continent. The recently created Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), effective since May 2019, is the latest effort along the roadmap…
Présentation : “Sustainable pathways to recovery: learnings from other Islands”, Tandrayen-Ragoobur V., Seetanah B., de Melo J., Séminaire “Sustainable pathways to Covid-19 recovery in Maurtius”, 26 nov.2020.
The purpose of this paper is to study the persistence of firm growth in Africa, dedicating special attention to high-growth firms. The worldwide interest in identifying high-growth firms comes from the idea that these firms will continue to outperform in the future and to create jobs. We exploit …
La Fondation pour les Études et Recherches sur le Développement International (Ferdi), domiciliée à Clermont-Ferrand, vient de terminer une passionnante étude menée pour le compte de la Fondation Prospective et Innovation sur « Les déterminants des conflits internes dans le monde : Comment estim…
An integrated analysis of how financial frictions can be accounted for in macroeconomic models built to study monetary policy and macroprudential regulation.