The endogenous growth literature established the existence of an inverted-U curve between taxes and economic growth, namely a Growth Laffer Curve, but empirical evidence on this relationship in developing countries is rather limited. Given that seigniorage and public debt are also important...

To what extent differences across developing countries in their domestic tax mobilization can be explained, in addition to the traditional determinants, by political economy factors and particularly by the political regime? Using a panel of 78 developing countries over the period 1990-2005, this...

This paper assesses the impact of migration on export performances. In particular, it highlights and helps understand how African migrants foster African trade. Relying on a new dataset on international bilateral migration recently released by the World Bank spanning from 1980 to 2010, we...

The topic of this paper is the time needed by China for becoming the largest economy in the world, based on the current tendency of development. Four factors are estimated: GDP, speed of growth, exchange rate and GDP deflator. The results of the estimations lead to think that chinese economy...

This paper investigates the relationship between firm-level productivity and investment climate (IC) for a large number of countries (23) and manufacturing industries (8). We first propose three measures of firms’ productive performances: Labor Productivity (LP), Total Factor Productivity...

En apportant des fondements microéconomiques à la segmentation du marché du travail, la nouvelle microéconomie de l'emploi est restée focalisée sur une vision manichéenne des modes organisationnels de coordination des offres et des demandes d'emploi opposant le marché externe au marché...

After motivating the analysis by describing cross-border trade between Nigeria and its neighbours, this paper analyses the welfare effect of smuggling and of trade liberalisation. When smuggling occurs because of a tariff or an export tax, smuggling is detrimental if it entails some real...

On étudie l'arbitrage que peut faire le gouvernement entre le niveau de rémunération des fonctionnaires et leurs effectifs, en supposant que ces agents peuvent contribuer à la production du pays. Son choix dépend de la pondération qu'il accorde à l'intérêt général de l'économie par...