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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants of public health expenditure in developing countries. This is done through an econometric analysis of panel data for 61 countries. A special interest is devoted to the role of external financial constraints, on corruption and on two aspects of...

Forest provides a wide range of environmental goods and services among which, biodiversity or consumption goods: they are know as forest amenities and constitute public goods. So, the valuing of forest cannot be directly based on market prices but is estimated using revealed preference methods....

This article investigates the impact that the real exchange rate appreciation in China has exerted on productivity growth since 1994. We remind the arguments explaining a positive or a negative impact of a real appreciation on efficiency and on technical progress. DEA Malmquist indices of...

None of the current migration policy indicators is really relevant. Thus, we have created one to assess the openness of OECD’s countries migratory policy to migration from developing countries. This openness is measured by the difference between the observed migration flows and theoretical...

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....