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A decade after Klugman et al's (2011) magisterial criticism on the HDI, controversies on the issue of measurement of human development remains alive. This paper updates this debate by focusing on 3 key issues: i) does the measurement of the HDI through a single value have empirical proof? ii) Is the equal weighting of components of the index statis...
Cet article analyse les effets de l'exploitation des ressources naturelles sur les recettes fiscales non liées aux ressources naturelles dans les pays de l'Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA) de 1996 à 2015 en utilisant les Effets Fixes Dynamiques (Dynamic Fixed Effects, DFE). Les résultats montrent que l'exploitation des ressourc...
COVID-19 has forced many governments to take emergency health measures which are undermining productive capacities and disrupting global supply chains. Southern and Northern Africa have been heavily impacted by such measures. According to UNCTAD statistics (2021), the average annual growth rate of exports in Northern and Southern Africa fell by 27....
This paper examines the effect of extractive resources on human development. We control for institutional quality through a composite index of institutional quality. Our sample covers 42 countries over the period 2009–2015. Given the small sample size, we use the bias-corrected least square dummy variable method. The results show that extractive re...
Many indicators are used to measure the quality of life of people and, consequently, these can be used to inform us about the quality of public policies. We propose to clarify this situation by asking one simple question: What is really important for us as an individual? This question can be asked to anyone and we could build a main indicator for p...
La COVID-19 a contraint la plupart des pays à adopter des mesures sanitaires afin d’endiguer la propagation du virus. Ces mesures fragilisent les capacités productives et désorganisent les chaînes d’approvisionnement mondiales. L’Afrique centrale est fortement impactée par ces mesures du fait de sa forte dépendance vis-à-vis des recettes d’exportat...
La COVID-19 a contraint la plupart des pays à adopter des mesures sanitaires afin d’endiguer la propagation du virus. Ces mesures fragilisent les capacités productives et désorganisent les chaînes d’appro- visionnement mondiales. L’Afrique centrale est fortement impactée par ces mesures du fait de sa forte dépendance vis-à-vis des recettes d’export...
Since 2012, France has been engaged in its energy and environmental policy transformation. The legislative framework for this change is the Energy transition for green growth Act. The policy on energy transition and sustainable development is carried out at the local level by the regions which rely on their territories. This paper aims to provide a...
From a sustainable development perspective, companies have to incorporate new requirements into their business models. Taking into account, new societal challenges are conceptualized at the corporate level by the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). At the level of the mining industries, the expectations are much more important especia...
Le Burkina Faso a connu ces dernières années un essor sans précédent de son secteur minier. Dans cet ouvrage, nous nous sommes intéressés à l’impact de cette expansion sur la soutenabilité du pays dans une optique de développement durable. La construction d’un indicateur de développement durable (Épargne Nette Véritable) nous a conduits à conclure...
This paper highlights the impoverishing character of Africa’s economic model
in its world merchandise trade. With a view to reduce the ousting of the wealth
of the continent by its trading partners, we develop a neo-factorial specialization
model in which we introduce technology and raw materials as endogenous
factors of production of manufactured...
This paper discusses the issue of Sustainable Development (SD) in countries having abundant natural resources with the aim of constructing a Sustainability Index of Mining Countries (SIMC). The SIMC is based on the Hartwick (1977) weak sustainability theoretical framework and the Brundtland et al. (1987) vision of SD. The specific studies on mining...
The paper opens the debate on the need to find a stable methodological framework in the construction of composite indicators (CIs) in order to address the methodological challenges including those of sensitivity and uncertainties related to methods used. As CIs are well-known to be essential in public debate, their methodological construction must...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to deal with methodological issues in the Index of Economic Freedom (IEF) building by using principal components analysis (PCA) and benefit of the doubt (BOD) methods to generate component- and country-specific weights in computing the scores.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses endogenous model and coun...
The Composite Indices (CI) are essential for policy-makers. They can be used to guide public policy. The same tools are used to evaluate the performance of public equities. However, they are subject to debate, as there are no standard rules for their construction. This paper discusses the methodological issues in the development of CI. It illustrat...
