The Energy Crisis of 2021 and its Implications for Africa
Energy markets have experienced significant disruptions since the outbreak of COVID-19. In late 2021, soaring natural gas prices triggered a new...
From CFA to ECO: Opportunities and Challenges of Economic and Monetary Cooperation in West Africa
The major announcement of December 21, 2019, of the shift from the CFA franc to the Eco led to major changes in the monetary landscape and...
Trade and Labor Market Outcomes: Does Export Sophistication Affect Women’s Wage Employment?
We explore whether improved export sophistication increases women’s participation in wage employment. Using panel data from a large group of...
Regional Market Integration, Agricultural Transformation, and Poverty Reduction:A review of experiences in selected cases of regional market integration
The transformative potential of regional market integration for a large trading bloc is well exemplified by the European Union which started...
Diagnostic stratégique de l’émergence de l’Afrique du Sud
L’objet de ce document est d’effectuer le diagnostic stratégique de l’émergence de l’Afrique du Sud. Ce diagnostic de l’économie sud-africaine a été...
Accelerating Growth and Job Creation in a Rapidly Changing and Integrated World
This book aims to address job creation in Morocco in the context of a new export-driven growth model. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the...
The EU’s Carbon Border Tax is Likely to do More Harm than Good
The EU's proposed carbon border tax is well intentioned. It is motivated by climate concerns, not by protectionism. However, the tax is based on...
La taxe carbone aux frontières de l'UE risque de faire plus de mal que de bien
La taxe carbone aux frontières proposée par l'UE part d'une bonne intention car elle est motivée par des préoccupations climatiques et non...
Conséquences économiques et politiques de la chute de la production pétrolière en Afrique subsaharienne à l’horizon 2030
Le vif rebond des prix du pétrole depuis le deuxième semestre 2020, tutoyant en mai 2021 les 70 dollars par baril, ne représente qu’un répit ponctuel...
The Economic and Political Consequences of Falling Oil Production in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030
The sharp rebound in oil prices since the second half of 2020, to nearly $70 per barrel in May 2021, represents only a temporary respite for oil-...
Le Bitcoin, une monnaie virtuelle spéculative mais pas une alternative à la monnaie centrale
En multipliant par deux son cours durant les trois premiers mois de l'année 2021, puis en le divisant pratiquement par deux, en quelques jours...
Bitcoin, a speculative virtual currency yet not an alternative to fiat currency
Bitcoin raises a number of questions, as it doubled in price over the first three months of 2021, only to lose practically half is value in a matter...
Policy options for food systems transformation in Africa - from the perspective of African universities and think tanks
Within the context of the United Nations Food Systems Summit taking place in September 2021, this brief discusses key drivers of food systems in...
Africa’s Mining Potential: Trends, Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies
Africa is endowed with abundant mineral resources, including gold, silver, copper, uranium, cobalt, and many other metals which are key inputs to...
La reconquête des souverainetés agroalimentaires en Afrique post-Covid
De nombreuses régions agricoles africaines étaient déjà en difficulté, lorsque les craintes de pandémie de la Covid-19 les ont brusquement enfermées...
Venezuela Agriculture and Food: Resilience or Total Collapse of Food Security Under Repeated Crises?
Venezuela has hurtled from crisis to crisis since the 1980s oil glut. Time and again, successive governments, whether Democratic or Bolivarian...
The Nigerian Energy Crisis: What Prospects for Green Recovery and Transatlantic Integration?
With a population of approximately 200 million, Nigeria accounts for about half of West Africa's population and has one of the largest...
The Impact of New Technologies on Employment and the Workforce: What are the Implications for Developing Countries, Especially in Africa?
New technologies, such as automation, artificial intelligence and industrial robots, are often seen as a real danger for existing jobs and also for...
Forces et faiblesses de la CEDEAO en 2021
Cette étude concerne la Communauté économique des Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest (CEDEAO), rappelant, tout d'abord, leur diversité...
Brazil Agriculture—Response and resilience of food security under dual shocks in 2020: Oil price collapse and the COVID-19 pandemic
Brazil, an oil-exporting nation, was still struggling to recover from the depression which started around 2014/15 when it was hit by a quick...
L’agenda de l’Union africaine sur les migrations: Une alternative aux priorités européennes en Afrique ?
Si les migrations en provenance d’Afrique constituent la priorité des politiques européennes de contrôle des frontières extérieures de l’Union...
Climbing a High Ladder - Development in the Global Economy
Economic development analysis must inevitably rely on a double methodological standpoint. On the one hand, it needs to search for common features,...
Genetically Modified Organisms: Promising or Problematic for Food Security? A Review of Major Developments in Selected Developing Countries - Part II
Selected experiences with GMOs in industrialized and developing countries show that the promise of bioengineering for strengthening food security...
African Cities in Times of COVID-19: Resilience against all Odds
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed new vulnerabilities in social, infrastructure, and governance systems. In the first months of the pandemic, there...
Africa’s Development Issues After Covid-19
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19’s impact on Africa, focusing on the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, based on information...
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA): Legal Overview
Regional integration in Africa is seen as a priority by many of the continent’s policymakers and economic stakeholders. With all Africa now signed up...
La Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine (ZLECAF) : regard juridique
L'intégration régionale en Afrique est considérée comme une priorité par de nombreux responsables politiques et acteurs économiques du continent...
Genetically Modified Organisms: Promising or Problematic for Food Security? A Review of Major Developments in Selected Industrialized Countries - Part I
Building on decades of biochemistry research, bioengineers have successfully transferred genes across species to produce living organisms (plants and...
Organismes génétiquement modifiés : Prometteurs ou problématiques pour la sécurité alimentaire ? Revue des principaux développements dans quelques pays industrialisés
S'appuyant sur des décennies de recherche en biochimie, les bio-ingénieurs ont réussi à transférer des gènes d’une espèce à l’autre pour...