A Peruvian community-based organization, a comedor popular (communal kitchen), is studied in this article to show how, as a micro-level institution, it fosters productivity in order to reduce poverty. The concepts of institutions, productivity and poverty are reviewed to establish a framework of...

This study develops a hybrid model to integrate climate risks into Côte d'Ivoire’s economic policy, drawing on the work of economists like Keynes, Ostrom, Stiglitz, Sen, and Nordhaus. The model combines decentralized governance, climate risk externalities, and capacity building to address the...

In this paper, we propose to solve the circular packing problem (CPP) whose objective is to pack n different circles C(i) of known radius r(i) , i = 1, …, n into the smallest containing circle C. The objective is to determine the radius r of C as well as the coordinates (x(i) , y(i)) of the...

Le crédit interentreprises est un des canaux de transmission du risque de défaillance des entreprises. Les impayés sur effets de commerce révèlent les interdépendances entre secteurs et leur potentiel de contagion, dès lors que les montants en jeu sont importants.

Nous proposons dans cet article une analyse critique du classement mondial des universités publié chaque année par l’Institut de l’Enseignement supérieur de l’Université Jiao Tong de Shangaï et plus connu sous le nom de « classement de Shangaï ». Après avoir rappelé comment le...

This paper presents the concept of articulation of modes of production in the works of the german africanist Georg Elwert born in 1947 and died in 2005. After the explanation of concepts of mode of production and articulation of modes of production, the paper analyzes how Professor Georg Elwert...

The paper approaches the topic of competence transfer in Romanian public administration in view of enlarging the processes of decentralization and deconcentration. The relation between decentralization of administration and competence transfer is biunivoque and it is understood in broad meaning...

This paper is part of a large research agenda by our Institute on the causes and consequences of moroccan corruption . This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically the main determinants of firms corruption in Morocco firms in the formal sector. It is shown that the presence of rents linked...

The purpose of preliminary is to present a broad agenda of theoretical and empirical modeling about the fundamental links between the quality of governance, financial development and economic development. The main theoretical predictions and evidence are of a large importance in terms of...

This article suggests updating the synthesis of the empirical literature on the corruption. Indeed, the literature on the economy of the corruption strongly developed these last years so much point of view theoretical as empirical. In this article, we focus on the consequences of the corruption....