Governments that lack the capacity to mine resources themselves have to attract foreign direct investment. However, since resources are not renewable, countries need to capture a ‘fair’ share of mineral resource rent to promote their development. While the third raw materials super cycle...

Governments that lack the capacity to mine resources themselves have to attract foreign direct investment. However, since resources are not renewable, countries need to capture a ‘fair’ share of mineral resource rent to promote their development. While the third raw materials super cycle...

For several years, the most modern customs administrations rely on risk analysis structural approaches for reducing intrusive inspections, satisfying private operators and securing their operations. In developing countries, customs administrations have been slow to take this course due to high...

The aim of this article is to identify the modalities of financing international trade security, more specifically for developing countries. It characterises security using a global public good framework, before studying the conditions of financing the supply of the global public good security....

In order to limit the number of intrusive inspections, the most modern customs administrations rely on risk analysis as the only effective tool for facilitating trade and securing their operations given the important growth in trade volume in recent years. However, customs administrations in...

Pour limiter les contrôles intrusifs, les administrations douanières les plus modernes s’appuient sur l’analyse du risque, seul moyen efficace, compte tenu de l’accroissement du volume des opérations commerciales, pour faciliter les échanges et sécuriser leurs opérations. Les douanes...

Since 1993, the prospects of intra-regional trade in West Africa have been strongly debated. Foroutan and Pritchett (1993) explain the low level of trade between Sub-Saharan African countries by structural factors. In opposite, Naudet (1993) shows that trade growth potential is important between...

L'intégration des marchés contribue à assurer la sécurité alimentaire des populations d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Le cas du Niger illustre parfaitement ce propos. Sa sécurité alimentaire repose en grande partie sur les céréales qu'il importe de son grand voisin, le Nigeria. Dans le cas...