[eng] Growth is not Enough for Poverty Reduction. This paper contributes to the current debate on pro-poor growth. It discusses the respective impacts of macro-economic growth and the reduction of income inequality on monetary poverty. Our results emphasise the potential importance of the latter...

Vietnam is one of the only South East Asian emerging economies not to have gone into recession in 2009 in the wake of the world crisis. Nonetheless, it has been affected deeply by the crisis, as shown by all macro-economic indicators. The yearly growth rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has...

[fre] Jean-Raphaël Chaponnière Jean-Pierre Cling Mohamed Ali Marouani Les conséquences de la fin de l'AMF : le cas de la Tunisie. Les PED réalisent aujourd'hui la quasi- totalité des exportations mondiales d'habillement et la majorité des exportations textiles. Depuis 1974, les quotas...

In this paper, we measure, compare and analyse gender and ethnic earnings gaps in seven West African capitals using data from an original series of urban household surveys. Our results show that gender earnings gaps are large in all the cities in our sample with significant variations across...

[fre] Le caractère multidimensionnel de la pauvreté est rarement pris en considération dans les pays où la pauvreté sévit avec le plus d'acuité. La disponibilité de données concernant la capitale malgache a permis de confronter différentes approches de la pauvreté et d'apporter un...

Summary This study examines the limits of global corruption indicators based on experts' perceptions. It draws on a wave of original surveys conducted in eight African countries that combined two types of approaches. The first approach covers a sample of over 35,000 people and uses...