Right now the actors of development are more and more concerned by the negative effect the economic crisis since 2008 may have on the mobilization around health, especially among the poorest. In this paper, after having shown that we witnessed from the 2000s to the emergence of a new scheme to...

This Selected Issues paper presents an external stability assessment on Niger. Niger’s current account balance deteriorated in 2013, mostly on account of higher food and capital goods imports. The deficit is expected to widen further in 2014–15, mainly driven by large investment in the...

We present the current status of labor market gender gaps in The Gambia and examine the macroeconomic and distributional gains from closing the gaps. We also study the impacts of high costs of living and the determinants of poverty. Closing labor market gender gaps, would significantly boost...