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We study the determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. A particular attention is paid to the effects of tenure insecurity generated by poorly defined property rights. Tenure insecurity has a theoretical ambiguous effect on deforestation. On the one hand, it reduces agricultural...

This paper examines the effects of land tenure insecurity originating from land reforms on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazonia. A non cooperative game model is developed where natural forests are considered as an open access resource and the strategic interactions between landowners and...

This paper comments on economic infrastructures (communication and public goods) ; it takes into account the economic, monetary and financial consequences of these investments, including their geographic orientation.

Climate change mitigation would benefit from Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in developing countries. The REDD mechanism is in charge of distilling the right incentives for fostering forest conservation with appropriate compensation of foregone revenues, which in turn...

Dans de nombreux pays en voie de développement, des Programmes de Vérification des Importations (PVI) ont été instaurés pour combattre la corruption des administrations douanières. Ils consistent à déléguer l’inspection des importations à une entreprise privée qui opère dans les...

In this paper, we examine the microeconomic determinants of the perception of corruption in twelve Sub-Saharan African countries. Unlike the indicators of corruption based on the opinion of international experts, the study focuses on corrupt practices as experienced by the African people...

Les pays de l’UEMOA ont adopté, en 1999, un pacte de convergence, de stabilité, de croissance et de solidarité. Le but premier du pacte est d’imposer des contraintes aux politiques budgétaires nationales de manière à préserver la crédibilité et la convertibilité de la monnaie...

If poverty has been significantly deceased in China during the last twenty years, this decrease was very unequal across the provinces and was accompanied by an increase of the urban and rural per capita income disparity. We studied the impact on this last one of the exchange rate policy, which...