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Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), an impact investment group dedicated to African Small and Medium Sized Businesses, is planning to launch an impact fund dedicated to the education and training sector on the African continent. The government of Monaco has decided to fund the launch phase of this new fund, including the present feasibility study. The […]

This guide details the methodology for the evaluation of tax expenditure in terms of personal income tax, capital gains tax and withholding tax, corporate income tax and minimum tax, custums duties, excise duties, value-added tax and registration duties. This method is based on the use of available tax data in the two administrations concerned by […]

Alongside GNI per capita and the Human Assets Index (HAI), the Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) is one of the three criteria used for the identification of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), as used by the UN-CDP (Committee for Development Policy) at each triennial review of the list of LDCs (see LDC Handbook, United Nations, 2015). […]

This article investigates the impact of remittances on credit in 30 developing (low and middle income) countries and 27 developed (high-income) countries during the period of 2000-2014. This paper differs from existing literature in two ways. First, we distinguish the impact of remittances on credit in both the short run and the long run. Second, […]

L’évolution erratique de la monnaie Bitcoin a récemment jeté un coup de projecteur sur la technologie blockchain dont la célèbre cryptomonnaie est l’application la plus connue. Présentée comme une révolution disruptive par ses promoteurs, cette technologie permet la création de registres numériques infalsifiables, immuables et historicisés, et promets de pallier le déficit de confiance qui […]

Dans le secteur minier, les Etats doivent être en mesure de concilier deux objectifs : attirer les investissements directs étrangers pour exploiter la ressource et capter une part suffisante de la rente minière pour financer le développement. Cette problématique est connue depuis longtemps et pose certes la question de la répartition de la rente minière entre […]