Par Jean-Claude BERTHELEMY,  Professeur à l’université Paris 1, dont il a dirigé le département  d’économie, co- directeur de l’axe de recherche « Economie du développement  durable » du centre d ’économie  de la Sorbonne et Arnaud MILLIEN,  Enseignant-chercheur au centre d’économie de la Sorbonne où il prépare une thèse sur l’effet de la fiabilité de […]

Does the sectoral composition of aggregate economic growth affect poverty? We ask whether agricultural growth in developing countries increases the expenditures of poorer households more than growth in other sectors. While some reduced form analyses have tackled this question using either country-level time series data, regional panel data for one country, or cross-sectional country data, […]

This paper studies how decentralization affects poverty, vulnerability, and inequality in Morocco, in the context of ongoing regionalization reforms. We use different non-parametric approaches to assess spending efficiency of Moroccan municipalities and regions over the period 2005-2009. The results indicate that the efficiency of spending in improving pro-poor outcomes is dependent on the fiscal autonomy […]

The paper examines how the Government of Morocco has addressed the issue of decentralization in recent years and how these processes have evolved and affected fiscal and public policies. More specifically, this paper analyzes the current legislative and institutional provisions governing administrative, political and fiscal decentralization in Morocco and presents a detailed analysis of the […]