This paper analyzes Côte d'Ivoire's experience with telecommunications liberalization and privatization. Côte d'Ivoire privatized its incumbent operator in 1997, and granted the newly privatized firm seven years of fixed-line exclusivity while introducing "managed competition" in the cellular...

Economics has much to do with incentives--not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save. Although Adam Smith amply confirmed this more than two hundred years ago in his analysis of sharecropping contracts, only in recent decades has a theory...

[fre] Certains auteurs, tels P. Schou ou P. Aghion et P. Howitt, ont caractérisé les sentiers optimaux de croissance dans un modèle schumpétérien en présence d'une ressource non renouvelable. Le premier objectif de cet article est de montrer comment ces sentiers peuvent être implémentés...