Documents et rapports
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Reforming non-tariff measures : from evidence to policy advice (anglais)
The empirical case for trade as an engine of growth has now been established on solid empirical grounds. There has been a protracted controversy in the literature on the econometrics of trade and growth...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 127167 Date du document: 6 juin 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cadot,Olivier,Ferrantino,Michael Joseph,Gourdon,Julien,Reye, José-Daniel
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The impact of rising Chinese trade and development assistance in West Africa (anglais)
The rapid economic rise of China over the last twenty years has sustained high global demand and prices for primary commodities such as oil and minerals, greatly benefitting Sub-Saharan (SSA) African countries...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 88349 Date du document: 23 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gourdon,Julien,Pigato,Miria A.
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Greenfield MFIs in Sub-Saharan Africa : a business model for advancing access to finance : Instituciones de microfinanzas totalmente nuevas en Africa al sur del Sahara : un modelo para promover el acceso al financiamiento (espagnol)
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the lowest level of access to finance of any region in the world, with an average banked population of only 24 percent (Findex 2012). The region's banking systems are small...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 67997 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Flaming,Mark Wayne,Earne,Julie Fawn,Jansson,Tor F.,Koning,Antonique M.,Gourdon,Julien
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Greenfield MFIs in Sub-Saharan Africa : a business model for advancing access to finance : Les IMF entierement nouvelles en Afrique subsaharienne : un modele commercial pour promouvoir l'acces au financement (français)
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the lowest level of access to finance of any region in the world, with an average banked population of only 24 percent (Findex 2012). The region's banking systems are small...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 67997 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Flaming,Mark Wayne,Earne,Julie Fawn,Jansson,Tor F.,Koning,Antonique M.,Gourdon,Julien
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Greenfield MFIs in Sub-Saharan Africa : a business model for advancing access to finance (anglais)
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the lowest level of access to finance of any region in the world, with an average banked population of only 24 percent (Findex 2012). The region's banking systems are small...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 67997 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Flaming,Mark Wayne,Earne,Julie Fawn,Jansson,Tor F.,Koning,Antonique M.,Gourdon,Julien
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Evaluating aid for trade : a survey of recent studies (anglais)
The demand for accountability in aid-for-trade is increasing but monitoring has focused on case studies and impressionistic narratives. The paper reviews recent evidence from a wide range of studies, recognizing...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6742 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cadot,Olivier,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Gourdon,Julien,Mattoo,Aaditya,De Melo,Jaime A. P.
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Are the benefits of export support durable ? evidence from Tunisia (anglais)
This paper evaluates the effects of the FAMEX export promotion program in Tunisia on the performance of beneficiary firms. While much of the literature assesses only the short-term impact of such programs...
Numéro du rapport: WPS6295 Date du document: 1 décembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cadot,Olivier,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Gourdon,Julien,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Assessing the price raising impact of non-tariff measures in Africa (anglais)
Ample anecdotal evidence summarized in, inter alia, Gillson (2011) and Charalambides and Gillson (2011) suggests that non-tariff measures (NTMs), whether protectionist in intent or not, raise trade costs...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 67998 Date du document: 1 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cadot,Olivier,Gourdon,Julien
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Import bans in Nigeria increase poverty (anglais)
Nigeria currently prohibits importation of 24 groups of items. These include a range of food products, certain medicines, industrial products such as glass bottles and textile fabrics and consumer products...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 67874 Date du document: 1 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cadot,Olivier,Gourdon,Julien,Hoppe,Mombert,Treichel,Volker
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Import bans in Nigeria increase poverty (français)
Nigeria currently prohibits importation of 24 groups of items. These include a range of food products, certain medicines, industrial products such as glass bottles and textile fabrics and consumer products...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 67874 Date du document: 1 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cadot,Olivier,Gourdon,Julien,Hoppe,Mombert,Treichel,Volker
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Regional integration and natural resources : who benefits ? evidence from MENA (anglais)
This paper builds on theoretical predictions that show that gains from regional integration are unevenly distributed between resource rich and poor countries. It explores the effects of different integration...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5970 Date du document: 1 février 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Carrere,Celine,Gourdon,Julien,Olarreaga,Marcelo
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Impact evaluation of trade interventions : paving the way (anglais)
The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions toward targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5877 Date du document: 1 novembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cadot,Olivier,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Gourdon,Julien,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Ex-post impact evaluation of an export promotion matching grant : Tunisia's second EMAF (anglais)
Among the root causes of the current political turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are the large numbers of unemployed but increasingly educated youth. For the region to achieve stability...
Numéro du rapport: 62240 Date du document: 1 mai 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gourdon,Julien,Marchat, JM,Sharma, S,Vishwanath,Tara
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World Bank South Asia economic update 2010 : moving up, looking east (anglais)
South Asia's rebound since March 2009 has been strong and is comparable to that in East Asia. South Asia is poised to grow by about 7 percent in 2010 and nearly 8 percent in 2011, thanks to the strong...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 56796 Date du document: 10 août 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dasgupta,Dipak,Gourdon,Julien,Hattari,Rabin Indrajad,Mishra,Saurabh,Pitigala,Upali Nihal,Yadao,Marinella Maxima G.
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Openness, inequality, and poverty : endowments matter (anglais)
Using tariffs as a measure of openness, the authors find consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3981 Date du document: 1 août 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gourdon,Julien,Maystre, Nicolas,De Melo,Jaime A. P.