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Based on an annual sample of 122 countries over the 1963-1994 period, this paper shows that real exchange rate depreciation reduces deforestation in relatively developed countries (with GDP per capita greater than $900) whereas it has the opposite effect in poor countries. A possible explanation...
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It is frequent, especially in the African context, to find a negative and statistically significant coefficient associated with human capital when it is introduced into the estimation of a plot-level production function. We provide an explanation for this paradox in the context of a...
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This paper, relying on the results of several cross-sectionnal growth regressions, examines the factors determining the sustainability of policy reforms and growth in Africa. Five structural factors are considered as determinants of policy: 1) ethno-linguistic fragmentation, which influences...
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The economic transition in post-communist countries generated a new phenomenon: open unemployment. Since the beginning of the reforms, the official unemployment rates have been very high in the CEECs (Central and Eastern European Countries), compared to the NIS (New Independent States from the...
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De 1980 à 2002, l’industrie française a perdu 1 500 000 emplois. La croissance des importations en provenance des pays émergents dans les secteurs ayant perdu le plus d’emplois suggère que les délocalisations et le commerce avec ces pays pourraient en être responsables. Dans le même...
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Le cours parallèle de la naira a chuté peu de temps après la dévaluation du franc CFA en 1994. On construit un modèle théorique simple montrant comment ces deux événements sont probablement reliés, et on présente un test économétrique allant dans ce sens.
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This paper gives a conceptual overview of the openness and vulnerability, sharing which in both cases respectively depends on economic policy and on structural factors, independent from policy. It focuses on openness policy, proposed to be measured by the residual of an openness function...
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