This article uses survey data streams on timber and non-timber forest products out of the forest of Gonsé to highlight the importance of human pressure on the peri-urban forest of Gonsé, located 35 km from Ouagadougou, the country’s capital city. A literature review on drivers of...

This paper aims to analyse closely the role and the incidence of forest income on reducing poverty and income inequalities among forest fringe households who are located in joint forest management (JFM) areas in Burkina Faso. Poverty indexes (Foster et al., 1984) and Gini coefficient are used to...

Cet article utilise, les données de la zone UEMAO de la période 1979-2010 pour examiner les relations de causalité entre le PIB par employé et la Consommation d’énergie d’une part, et celles entre l’Emploi et la consommation d’énergie d’autre part. Les tests de Phillips Perron,...

This paper uses data of investigation into a sample of 205 savers (including 186 households and 19 female associative groupings) members of the Federation of the Popular Cases of Burkina (FCPB) of Ouagadougou the capital city of this country, to evaluate the determinants of poor households?...

The paper aims to question the pertinence and the grounds of technological policies at infra national level. The research combines the contribution of knowledge economics to approaches dealing with the location of activities. The first part of the paper looks through the argumentation accounting...

The paper analyses the role of institutional investors in the car industry, using original data on their investments in the world\'s top 16 car companies. It reveals the limitations of \"globalised Finance\" in this sector and the permanence of national proximity. Institutional investors\'...

We present the basic mechanisms of Genetic Algorithms and some significant applications of these algorithms in economics. The article also provides a representative reference list on this topic.