[eng] In 1999, WAEMU (West African Economic and Monetary Union) countries adopted a Convergence Pact. Its main goal is to constrain national fiscal policies so as to prevent macroeconomic imbalances and preserve the credibility of the common currency. While budgetary efforts may cause recession...

[fre] Nasser Ary Tanimoune Patrick Plane Performance et convergence des politiques économiques en zone franc. L'objectif de cet article est de faire le point sur l'état de la convergence nominale dans l'Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA). En 1999, les huit pays...

Throughout the world, deep reforms are being implemented in telecommunications networks. Sub Saharan African countries are not immune to the contestation of the way the sector has been managed to date, dominated as it was by a technological stability and bilateral institutional arrangements...

Over the last two decades, methodological developments on the parametric measure of the firm productive performance have referred to two analytical bodies : the average production function and the production frontier. Each of these methods has its own benefits and limitations, either for the...

[fre] La privatisation dans les pays en développement : déterminants et conséquences macro-économiques . Patrick Plane . L'exploration des déterminants de la privatisation est entreprise pour la période 1988-1992. L'estimation de modèles Probit et Tobit sur un échantillon de 35 pays en...

What does "good governance" mean for the World Bank and to what extent has the organisation been successful in diffusing the paradigm worldwide? The Bank focused primarily on economic aspects of governance in the 1980s and progressively moved to emphasise its political dimensions towards the end...