Interview With Koffi Kouakou (APSACO 2019)

If the concern is solely to increase fertilizer use by Sub-Saharan Africa’s smallholders, price subsidy for inorganic fertilizer can be effective. The strengths and weaknesses of relying primarily on price subsidies to promote fertilizer use have been discussed at length and will therefore not be dealt with here. But if the goal is to assist smallholders use fertilizer productively, profitably and sustainably-financial and environmental, much more is required. Making fertilizer affo ...

The objective of this paper is to better understand the evolution of manufacturing employment across the world. Manufacturing value added has grown rapidly since 2000, at least matching world GDP growth, even after the global financial crisis, reflecting mainly rising demand for manufactures especially in developing countries. However, manufacturing employment increased at only a slow pace, both before and after the global financial crisis. Manufacturing employment growth provided o ...

Le 15 octobre 2019, les électeurs mozambicains se rendront aux urnes pour élire leur président. Des élections qui se déroulent dans un contexte particulier, marqué par la concrétisation des projets d’exploitation des réserves de gaz qui attisent les convoitises des différentes parties, ainsi que la conclusion d’un accord de paix entre les deux adversaires traditionnels, le Front de libération du Mozambique (FRELIMO)- parti actuellement au pouvoir- et Résistance nationale mozambicain ...

S’il existe un pays dans le monde où le concept du Soft Power prend pleinement sens et substance, ça serait fort probablement la Suède. Ce pays détient remarquablement toutes les composantes du Soft Power identifiées par le géopolitologue américain Joseph Nye dans son article paru en 2006 dans la revue Foreign Policy à savoir : la culture, les valeurs politiques et la politique étrangère. Située à proximité de l’océan glacial arctique, au Nord, la mer baltique, à l’Est, et les mers ...

This paper suggests that tribal dynamics of power structure are key in reestablishing peace and development in the region. The Sahel region’s security challenges are directly influenced by tribalism and ethnic dynamics. In recent decades mistreatment, favoritism, and corruption allowed criminality and multidimensional conflicts to flourish. This is evident in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Libya, and Chad. Lightly governed and poorly secured regions in these countries became more strate ...

يعرف المغرب فوارق كبيرة على مستوى الدخل، ففي سنة 2013 بلغت حصة الـ%10 آٔلغىن من الساكنة ما يقارب %32 من الدخل الوطين، 1أي ما يعادل 12 ضعفا لحصة الـ%10 آٔلفقر. إن أي اتساع مفرط في الفوارق من شأنه أن يؤثر سلبا على وتيرة النمو على المدى الطويل، ألنه عادة ما يقترن بضعف في استغالل الموارد البشرية. ومن هذا المنطلق تدفع هذه المقالة بطرح مفاده أنه، باستلهام التجارب الدولية، يمكن للحكومة المغربية أن تفعل اليشء الكثير للحد من الفوارق دون التفريط في تعزيز التنمية، بل وربما يمكنها أن ...

A few months ago, Indian Prime Minister Modi announced that his country had improved its space capabilities by shooting down from Earth a low orbit satellite that was 300 km away in space. Most commentators assume that the destroyed target was an Indian satellite, presumably outdated or no longer fully functioning. Modi further reassured the international community by stating that the technology will only be used for security, peace, and development purposes, and that the act did no ...