Selon une croyance de longue date, un ciblage précis des pauvres peut améliorer l′efficacité des politiques de développement. Alors qu′un certain nombre de facteurs, tels que la mauvaise gouvernance, les méthodes de ciblage inadéquates, l′ingérence ou le manque de volonté...

L’importance de l’industrie extractive, les aspects exclusifs de la croissance tirée par l’exportation, et les politiques préférentielles dont bénéficie la région côtière du Pérou, constituent des éléments clés pour comprendre la nature du développement et des conflits dans ce...

This article discusses the idea, which has become dominant among donors, that increasing the coordination of development aid would be an appropriate target in order to improve efficiency. First, we review donors’ initial observation about why aid is ineffective. Second, we present the agenda...

This article highlights the role of sharecropping in small-scale, non-traditional export production, through the case of pineapple production in Côte d’Ivoire. The study reveals the diversity of contractual configurations with respect to the same crop, under the same local term of abougnon....

This study addresses gender differentials in labour market outcomes in developing countries. There is emerging evidence that even though women in developing countries increasingly enter the labour force, they often end up in jobs with low pay, low security and limited social mobility. We find...

A production system based on cotton and cereals has been developed in Mali within a framework of an integrated upstream and downstream supply chain, securing the socio-economic environment. For three decades, the deep transformation of rural structures in the Malian cotton belt has been...

This article aims at analyzing the trade structure of La Reunion (exports and imports of products, HS6 digit level) over the period 1989–2008. First, we determined several indicators of geographic trade intensity, comparative advantage and openness. These later revealed that, in spite of...

A la fin du siècle dernier, le Mexique a cherché à améliorer les conditions économiques des petits paysans, qui vivent dans des municipalités essentiellement indigènes où le taux de pauvreté rurale reste particulièrement élevé. Bien que des espoirs soient nés lorsque le pays a...