This paper presented a framework of economic policy formulation in Senegal from 1960 to 2012, with special emphasis on the years from 2000. Political, social and economic objectives of these policies are identified. Subsequently, the role of the stakeh …

Since the late 1990s it has become a priority of Senegal to reduce inequality and poverty. The catalysts are the structural adjustment policies, which have had disastrous consequences on the living conditions of populations. The policies undertaken sin …

This paper develops a general equilibrium framework to study the role of preference structure in connecting consumption, health investment, stock of health and capital, and their effects on the wage rate and on productivity. The paper shows that elasti …

Twenty years after the independence of 1960 – this period is characterized by a significant centralization in the management of the economy and the use of planning. However the effectiveness of the government’s policies had been questioned when the cou …

The research in the paper consists of country panel data spanning over 1998-2008 for both developed and developing countries to study the productivity growth when countries are close to the technology frontier. Relying on a semi-parametric generalized …

This study focused on the impacts of crises in recent years (food, energy, economic and financial) and the policy responses on the situation of children in Senegal. From an overall assessment of the social and economic policies implemented to meet the …

The purpose of this work was to understand the behavior of very small businesses (TPEs) in ICT staffing. To this end, a data analysis was conducted to assess the rate of diffusion and the degree of ICT use in microenterprises. Similarly, the determinan …

A distribution of incomes is polarized when it presents homogeneous groups with different living standards. Using a method developed by Duclos, Esteban and Ray, firstly the evolution of the polarization of income was measured in Senegal and Burkina Fas …

A polarized income distribution reveals homogeneous groups which present different levels of living standard. We measure polarization by grouping individuals according to the business sectors, gender, geographical region and ethnic identity. We also de …

We study an endogenous growth model where households provide skilled and unskilled labor, also pay capital and wage taxes. The growth dynamics is guaranteed by the accumulation of human capital, which depends on public spending in education. The effect …

A polarized income distribution tends to have different homogeneous groups whose living standards may be very different. We use the approach considering that polarization comes from antagonisms generated by the combination of principles of identificati …

The West African economic and monetary union was created 1994, whch had as a main objective the reinforcement of the competitiveness of the member states by harmonizing their economic legislation. In 1995 indirect tax harmonization were adopted by a re …