Microfinance institutions face a double bottom-line. They perform financial tasks by giving microcredits to their customers and support projects aiming at reducing poverty. In doing so, they have to be financially self-sufficient and to target poor people excluded from the traditional financial...

</titre> Studies on measuring the performance of microfinance institutions using non-parametric DEA approach have focused on either production or intermediation approach. None to our knowledge has combined both approaches in measuring the efficiency of these institutions. This research aims to fill this...

Les études réalisées sur la mesure de la performance des institutions de microfinance en utilisant l’approche non paramétrique DEA se sont intéressées soit à l’approche production, soit à l’approche intermédiation. Aucune, à notre connaissance, n’a associé les deux approches...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using data from the third Cameroonian Household Consumption Surveys, the price elasticities are obtained from a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model. Price elasticities are then...

The European Union beef market regulation is largely influenced by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). With the 1992 CAP reform, there was a partial shift by the EU from product price support to a more direct form of income support by way of direct payments. For beef there was a move to direct...