Police corruption is widespread and may be important in explaining the high risk of road fatalities in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the impact of this phenomenon on road safety in Sub-Saharan Africa. A theoretical model is presented where a representative carrier faces corruptible...

The volume of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) towards developing countries has significantly risen during the 90's. The interest expressed in FDIs by developing countries is generally justified by many expectations: their impact on growth, the provision of financial resources, the openness to...

In recent years some critiques toward the efficiency of foreign aid have appeared in the economic literature. The allocation of foreign aid toward corrupt governments induces the failure of development policies. Donors have to control the use of aid in order to avoid the risk of kleptocracy. Our...

Agricultural trade liberalization is a complex process, insofar as its shapes and stakes are concerned, in which numerous issues clash. This process comes at a time of high technical change. The consequences of agricultural trade liberalization are altogether paradoxical, ambiguous and...

Since its peak in the Middle Ages, the Islamic world has lost its prominent place among the great civilisations. Indeed, the scientific and industrial revolutions took place in Western Europe between the XVIIth and the XIXth centuries, and not in the Muslim world, while the free-market...

Success factors and success criteria on which projects are evaluated have been discussed widely in literature. The perception of coordinators of international development projects has not been examined thus far, especially in Africa. This paper characterizes the dimensions of success (and their...

During the about thirty years of regional policy, the European Union went through several steps in its implementation as much at the level of its conceptualisation as of its adaptations to the successive enlargements. The most important one was certainly the reform of structural funds realized...

Par l’Ordonnance d’urgence du Gouvernement n°/2014 relative à l’établissement de certaines mesures dans le domaine de l’éducation, de la recherche scientifique et pour la modification de certains actes normatifs, on a modifié certaines dispositions de la Loi de l’éducation...

Turkey faces the challenge of human investment and high inequality in education. The mapping of the country shows disparities by region, by gender, ethnicity, etc., according to the school cycles. Our study then analyzes the Turkish educational challenges in order to interpret and analyze the...