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Bernard Decaluwé

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31 May 2021

Politiques Publiques et File D’attente sur le Marché du Travail au Sénégal / Public Policies and Waiting in the Senegalese Labour Market

The implementation of the Plan Sénégal Emergent (PSE) has resulted in a relatively small increase in employment among women and skilled workers, leading to a longer duration in the job queue for the latter. In addition, the COVID-19 crisis has further …

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30 April 2021

Economic Impacts of an Epidemiologic Model: The Senegalese Case of COVID-19 in a Computable General Equilibrium-Multi-Agent System Model

Senegal is a developing country in West Africa whose current economic crisis is intimately linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. Necessary containment measures brought with them a significant economic cost, and de-confinement was designed to obtain a quick …

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1 August 2019

Politiques Agricoles, Emploi et Revenu des Femmes au Burkina Faso / Agricultural Policies, Employment and Income of Women in Burkina Faso

The Burkina Faso economy, based on agriculture, employs about 70% of the active population. It contribution to GDP is estimated on average at 35%. In agricultural sector, 83% of women produce 75% of food production despite their limited access to land …

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1 May 2019

Politiques Agricoles, Emploi et Revenu des Femmes au Burkina Faso: Comment L’accès des Femmes aux Ressources Productives Peuvent Améliorer Leurs Conditions de vie et Stimuler L’économie? / Agricultural Policies, Employment and Women’s Income in Burkina Faso: How can Women’s Access to Productive Resources Improve their Living Conditions and Stimulate the Economy?

The Burkinabe economy is mainly based on agriculture, which employs about 70% of the working population and its contribution to GDP is estimated at 35% on average. This sector is mainly dominated by women. Indeed, 83% of women work in this sector where …

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1 May 2019

Agricultural Policies, Employment and Women’s Income in Burkina Faso: How can Women’s Access to Productive Resources Improve their Living Conditions and Stimulate the Economy?

The Burkinabe economy is mainly based on agriculture, which employs about 70% of the working population and its contribution to GDP is estimated at 35% on average. This sector is mainly dominated by women. Indeed, 83% of women work in this sector where …

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1 December 2010

Is South Africa’s Affirmative Action Policy Efficient?

This article presents a dynamic computable general equilibrium model which measures the impacts of the affirmative action policy set up in South Africa. In order to reduce inequalities inherited from the former regime on the labour market, the governme …

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1 November 1996

Market Structure and Trade Policy in Developing Countries: A General Equilibrium Approach

“Trade policy analysis has experienced major changes over the last decade on both the theoretical and empirical fronts. The “new” trade theory points out that the presence of imperfect competition in a market renders theoretically ambiguous the magnitu …

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