Cet article explore la question de la convergence réelle en termes de compétitivités internationales parmi les membres de la zone euro et de la zone CFA qui repose sur l’euro. L’objectif est d’apprécier l’importance de la perte de l’instrument du taux de change pour les différents...

Cet article explore la question de la convergence réelle en termes de compétitivités internationales parmi les membres de la zone euro et de la zone CFA qui repose sur lâeuro. L’objectif est dâapprécier lâimportance de la perte de lâinstrument du taux de change pour les...

This paper aims at analyzing the sectoral characteristics of South-South trade, looking in particular at the bilateral trade of Sub-Saharan African countries in the period 2000-2009. We first report the decomposition of each country?s export performance, identifying the contribution of foreign...

This paper aims at analyzing how export performance of developing countries differs across destinations. With application to Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, we first employ a gravity equation to break down each region’s export performance, separating the contribution of foreign market access from...

This work proposes to analyze the determinants of trade in bottom-line products, in comparison with global trade. It also tries to assess the risks of competition between developing countries, particularly between Sub-Saharan Africa and developing Asia. It tries to assess the available...

</titre> Due to the similarity in supply factors and demand bottlenecks, traditional approach of regional integration usually argues that South-South trade agreements are likely to generate trade diversion and income divergence. In this paper, we seek whether Senegal?s participation to the WAEMU might...

This work proposes to analyse learning opportunities in North-South trade. Without a direct measure of knowledge transmission, we use export and import sophistications in order to evaluate learning effects for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) and Developing Asian (DA) countries with regard to their...