There has been a noticeable improvement in female entrepreneurship in Senegal. From 2007 to 2014, the total share of female-owned firms in the country has grown from 23.8% to 32.1%. The share of female entrepreneurs in new start-ups, in particular, has …

Despite an increase in the share of female-owned existing and new start-up firms in Senegal, there is still a wide belief that female entrepreneurs are discriminated against in the credit market. This paper empirically investigates such gender-based di …

This study evaluates the impact of school canteen programs on the performance of rural primary schools in Senegal using a “randomized experiment”. 120 schools which had never had school canteens were selected in the four poorest regions of Senegal. The …

This study evaluates the impact of school canteen programs on the performance of ruralprimary schools in Senegal using a “randomized experiment”. 120 schools which had neverhad school canteens were selected in the four poorest regions of Senegal. They …

Women have become, in both developed and developing countries, major players in economic life, but, is hampered both by their low capacity in terms of human capital, but also by the discrimination they are subject to , especially regarding access to IC …

In this work, we investigated the dominant dimensions of multidimensional poverty in Senegal between 1994 and 2001. Our main objective was to identify the trends of different aspects of poverty in Senegal between 1994 and 2001 using a multidimensional …