This paper explores the technology-discriminating role of export market participation. Exports are found to enhance firm's productivity, mainly due to the self-selection of more productive firms into export markets and/or the role of learning-by-exporting, suggesting that the underlying...

What does "good governance" mean for the World Bank and to what extent has the organisation been successful in diffusing the paradigm worldwide? The Bank focused primarily on economic aspects of governance in the 1980s and progressively moved to emphasise its political dimensions towards the end...

Dans tous les pays où l'Etat, affaibli, est incapable de résister au libéralisme des grands organismes financiers internationaux, la privatisation des infrastructures est souvent subie comme une braderie intolérable des intérêts nationaux. Face à l'hostilité que soulèvent ces processus...

In this paper, we defend the idea that in the African context, non-market co-operation between farmers and ginning companies outperforms market transactions. In the absence of a reliable legal mechanism, market liberalization threatens the sustainability of contractual agreements between farmers...

L’étude du textile à Sfax constitue l’objet analytique de cet article. La première section décrit le secteur à travers son importance pour l’économie régionale et ses caractéristiques de développement dans une dialectique locale de respect et d’évolution des traditions...

In 1990, Côte d'Ivoire privatized the management of its electric power company (lease contracting). In this paper, we are interested in identifying the economic effect of this institutional change. By estimating a stochastic production frontier, we have found that productive efficiency improved...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, sector-based Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is calculated for six Tunisian manufacturing sectors over the period 1983-2002. Economic determinants of the productive performance are also investigated. In doing so, we take care of the direction of the...

Cette étude consiste en une évaluation des conséquences, du point de vue de l'efficience productive, des programmes de redressement des entreprises publiques africaines du secteur de l'électricité. La reflexion est menée avec la toile de fond que procure la théorie des contrats et des...