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Notre étude se propose de mesurer l'efficacité des institutions de microfinance (IMFs) en UEMOA, en utilisant la … méthode DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). C'est la première étude qui considère à la fois la fonction d'intermédiaire et d'outreach … rencontrées par le secteur de la microfinance qui ont conduit à la fermeture de nombreuses institutions, ou à une détérioration …
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Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have grown fast in WAEMU surprising political decision makers. They reacted by setting … interest rate at 27 percent per year for microfinance institutions and 18 percent for banks. This statutory frame, fast … supervision and to precipitate a massive decline of MFIs. This law limits incentives to better governance, the efficiency and the …
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social context was favorable. The company proactively conducted an outreach campaign relatively large for a 50 m€ investment …
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companies producing in these countries pay more when NGOs campaigns take place and reputation counts. However, whether this … external pressure from NGOs benefit local workers outside MNEs affiliates in host countries remains an open issue. Segmented … and weak local labour unions often rely on external funding from the North and technical assistance by labour NGOs. They …
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This paper investigates the effect of FDI on economic growth conditional on the institutional quality of host countries. We consider institutional heterogeneity to be an explanation for the mixed results of previous empirical studies and we develop several arguments to show that institutional...
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This paper aims to address the empirical question of whether a country's level of manufacturing trade is affected by its financial sector development and to investigate the role of institutions in this relationship. Countries endowed with better-developed financial systems tend to specialize in...
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The quality of the institutional environment is a crucial issue in understanding the effective outcome of fiscal decentralization initiatives. However, there has been so far very little work on the subject. In this paper we contribute to fill this gap by considering the municipalities belonging...
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This paper examines access to the city as revealed by the daily travel behaviour of urban dwellers. It is based on secondary analyses of six household travel surveys carried out in cities in West and Central Africa between 1992 and 2003. Vehicle ownership rates are low in these cities and the...
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A computable general equilibrium model is applied to evaluate the opportunity costs of not adopting Bt cotton, a genetically-modified (GM) insect resistant cotton, in Benin, Burkina- Faso, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, and Uganda when it is adopted in other countries. Our model uniquely employs...
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As planned large investments in road infrastructure continue to be high on the agenda of many African countries, only few of these countries have actually ammended their investments strategy. In many cases, there seems to be a preference for a status quo that can easily be explained by political...
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