By applying regression discontinuity designs to a set of household surveys from the 1980–90s, we examine whether Côte d’Ivoire’s aggregate wealth was translated at the borders of neighboring countries. At the border of Ghana and at the end of the 1980s, large discontinuities are detected...

A partir de données exhaustives des recensements maliens de la population de 1976, 1987 et 1998, cette étude analyse le processus d’urbanisation et de spécialisation économique des 10 000 localités maliennes. Grâce à un travail d’appariement minutieux, rarement entrepris même dans...

A new analysis of large-sample surveys in five comparable Sub-Saharan African countries allows measuring for the first time inequality of opportunity in Africa, aside inequality of resources and of living standards. We confirm the prevalence of high levels of inequality among the region’s...

This document is a new version of a study on Ivory Coast started in 1997 as part of a programme of the OCDE Development Centre called “Emerging Africa”. This work is an historical analysis of the Ivorian economy since the independence of the country. The economic growth period between 1994...

At the end of 1980s, Côte d’Ivoire entered a deep macroeconomic crisis that put an end to the often praised "Ivorian miracle". After the death of the founding father Houphouët-Boigny, unrestrained political competition added to bad economic conditions and led to the nightmare of civil war....

At the end of the 1980s, Côte d’Ivoire entered a deep macroeconomic crisis that put an end to the often-praised ‘Ivorian miracle’. After the death of the founding father Houphouet-Boigny, unrestrained political competition added to bad economic conditions and led to the nightmare of civil...

The present crisis in Cote d’Ivoire is firstly political. However, this paper argues that the 1994-98 post-devaluation period raised a real opportunity of beginning an in-depth reform process of the economic system. This opportunity was not seized. For instance, the reforms did not succeed at...

This paper examines for the first time inequality of opportunity for income in Africa, by analyzing large-sample surveys, all providing information on individuals' parental background, in five comparable Sub-Saharan countries: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar and Uganda. We compute...

This report presents a structural analysis of the Ghanaian economy, an outlook of its recent evolution and growth estimations for 2001 and 2002. Ghana holds a special position in West Africa, because of its strong economic growth during the last twenty years and its flexible exchange rate...