This article examines the relation between the development of life insurance sector and economic growth, for a sample of 86 developing countries over the period 1996-2011. We also examine the heterogeneous effect of life insurance on growth. The results show on the one hand that the development of life insurance has a positive effect on econom(...)

Cette recherche examine le lien entre les dépenses publiques de santé et la croissance économique du Burkina Faso sur la période 1980 à 2013. Afin d’atteindre l’objectif de la recherche, le test de cointégration du modèle autorégressif à retards échelonnés (ARDL) de Pesaran et al. (2001) a été appliqué. Ce modèle montre que les dépenses publi(...)

Among the sub-Saharan African countries, Ivory Coast has suffered more than 10 years of political instability and absence of peace. Using nationally representative household surveys, this study exploits temporal and geographical variations of the 1999–2011 Ivorian political instability to identify its causal effect on children’s schoolin(...)