In this paper, we are interested in assessing the impact of the quality of institutions on trade flows among the Member States of the ?Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa? (EMCCA). The quality of institutions is captured through the practices of public and governmental actions and...

This paper uses the gravity model to assess the determinants of intra- UEMOA trade flows and focuses on the impact of the wave of economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s on internal trade. Furthermore, it computes trade potentials among UEMOA member nations. The model is tested for 1990-1994 and...

This paper aims to evaluate and analyze trade potential of Monetary and Economic Community of Central Africa’s countries (MECCA) in the light of market integration theory. Gradually, we analyze stylized facts of member’s countries trade and estimate an augmented gravity model to evaluate the...

[eng] Poverty, Growth and Redistribution . This paper investigates the links between growth, distribution and poverty dynamics. On the theoretical side, we revisit the literature on the determinants of growth and inequality and their effect on the poverty headcount. On the empirical side, we...

We study the effect of primary commodities on development indicators in a sample of 86 countries over the period 1965-2005. To this purpose we employ a system of equations. We use interactive terms to estimate separate slope coefficients for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, Central African...

This paper aims at assessing the outcome of multilateral surveillance of budgetary policies in the CEMAC member countries. The multilateral surveillance is a component of the vast program of economic reforms undertaken at the beginning of the 1990s as a response to the severe economic crisis...

<alinea/> Since 2001, CEMAC has introduced a program for the coordination of national fiscal policies. The paper provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of this program. It seems that, while fully justified, the application of coordination is weakened by various factors and that corrective...