Prétextant que les régimes autocratiques étaient les mieux placés pour mobiliser et organiserles ressources en vue d’assurer le développement et l’unité nationale, la classe politique agénéralisé la pratique de cette forme de gouvernement dans les pays africains à partir de...

The African Development Bank has, since 1982, experienced a problem withbunching of projects towards the fourth quarter of each year’s Lending Program.Contributing factors include both systemic and endogenous constraints as well asexogenous constraints. This paper proposes a holistic approach,...

The objective of this paper is to discussmacroeconomic policies that would helpAfrican countries, especially the lowincome countries (LICs), reach strong,sustained and shared growth in the postcrisisworld. The paper first reviews, witha special focus on LICs, macroeconomicpolicies in Africa...

This paper examines the changing economic environment under globalization andreviews issues pertaining to international trade and capital flows. It places emphasis onthe trends, issues, and arguments about regional trade arrangements (RTAs) and foreigndirect investment (FDI) on the ground that...

After providing a brief background on recent developments of terms of trade shocks anddebt relief initiatives, the paper uses a simple macroeconomic model to estimate theimpact of debt relief and terms of trade shocks on growth and poverty in Africancountries. For the 18 Heavily Indebted Poor...

This paper first outlines a framework within which to assess the contribution of health and schooling to increasing individual and aggregate income, as well as the possible feedback of increasing income on the demand for human resources. It then evaluates how African countries have fared from...

Since the advent of political independence, many governments in Africa have looked to themanufacturing sector as the main vehicle of structural transformation and reduction of dependenceon primary exports. However, it is now generally accepted that “misguided attempts to...

In 1997, William Easterly authored an intriguing paper titled “The Ghost of Financing Gap:How the Harrod-Domar Model Still Haunts Development Economics”. His investigation showsthat the Harrod-Domar model fails drastically in explaining the performance of investment andgrowth. He reveals...

L'analyse ci-dessus est axée sur la commercialisation de l'infrastructure africaine depuis le début des années 90. D'après cette analyse, les pays africains manifestaient une certaine réticence à l'égard de la privatisation de l'infrastructure, car ils avaient pressenti l'importance du...

This paper critically examines key concepts that have been dominant in the internationaldevelopment community in the past twenty years. Starting with an analysis of the state in Africa,it shows how the international donors have ignored many of the underlying conditions that makeit weak and soft....