Transboundary pollution is a particularly serious problem as it leads people located at regional borders to disproportionately suffer from pollution. In China, where the environmental policy is decentralized and where environmental conflicts between provinces have occurred several times,...

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...