This paper reviews Africa’s role in the global trading system and discusses theconstraints and options for Africa to move from its current marginalization to an exportledapproach to economic development. It discusses the impact of regional economicintegration on intra-African trade, reviews...

Food prices rose rapidly in 2007 and in early2008, but started falling during the second halfof 2008. Despite this fall, many African countriesare yet to recover from the severe economicand social strain caused by the suddenescalation of prices. This situation, however,has triggered renewed...

S’appuyant sur l’approche de Sen en termes de capabilités et sur une méthode d’agrégation issue de la théorie des ensembles flous, l’article tente de dépasser les principales critiques adressés aux indices ISDH et IPF du PNUD dans l’analyse des inégalités de genre. Le premier...

Community-based health insurance schemes (Mutuelles) in Rwanda are one of the largest experiments in community based risk-sharing mechanisms in Sub-Saharan Africa for health related problems. This study examines the impact of the program on demand for modern health care, mitigation of...

This paper makes a case for linking Africa through regional infrastructure by showing that soundinfrastructure is critical to any development process and thus impacts on the quality of development ofany country or region and consequently on the quality of life of its people. The critical role of...

In this paper, we investigated whether civil wars in Africa have economic andpolitical causes. The model is based on the Collier-Hoeffler “greed” and “grievance”theory in which rebels will conduct a civil war for “loot-seeking” and “justiceseeking”reasons. Using logit models the...

On the one hand the high price of oil is a unique opportunity for African oil producers to use the windfall gains to speed up their development. On the other hand, it is having adverse effects on net-oil importing countries, in particular those which cannot access international capital markets...

This paper documents the pattern, trend and determinants of migration in Africa using rich cross-country migration matrix data and household surveys from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal. Results show that despite increase in the absolute number of migrants, Africa, particularly...

La réforme réglementaire de l'infrastructure africaine s'est accélérée depuis 1995, pas nécessairement à cause de la gestion publique éclairée de la part des gouvernements africains, bien qu'une telle interprétation puisse être soutenue dans certains milieux, mais surtout à cause de...

The aim of this paper is to provide a framework that national governments and international agencies can use to accelerate health development in Africa. It shows the respective roles of socioeconomic, political and medical factors in the determination of health status of a population. Using...