This document presents an evaluation of the consequences of the liberalisation of the cocoa marketing system on poverty in Côte d'Ivoire. The liberalisation generated efficiency gains in the marketing process that benefited to farmers. However, a major consequence of the liberalisation was the...

In many sub-saharan african countries, agricultural sector adjustment programs failed to succeed because of a severe budgetary constraint which prevent actual reform of the incentive scheme and lead to maintain a high degree of taxation on agricultural exports. On the basis of theoretical...

Les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne sont engagés dans des politiques de libéralisation commerciale. Afin de préserver, voire de renforcer leur niveau de ressources publiques, ces pays mettent actuellement en œuvre des politiques de transition fiscale qui ont pour objectif de substituer des...

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between corruption and public revenues. An empirical investigation of panel data (125 countries and covering the period 1980-2002) makes it possible not to reject the hypothesis that corruption has a negative effect on public revenues collection....

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In the literature, when the price of primary products is booming, developing countries are generally facing an increase in the availability of foreign financing. The STABEX payments should occur after a shortfall export earnings, and as a consequence when government revenues are falling. We show...