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Independent and not-for-profit, the Foundation for studies and Research on International Development (FERDI) proposes relevant and innovative thinking on the key issues in development economics.

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Découvrir la programmation d’un modèle économique sur le logiciel GAMS

Training

Cette formation permet d’apprendre l’essentiel des commandes nécessaires à la construction d’un modèle économique sur GAMS (General Algebraic Modeling System). 14h d'enseignement à distance avec un suivi personnalisé de chaque participant.e par les différents formateur.trice.s.

22 February 2021

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Economic Policy Management (GPE) training programme

Training

As a reminder, the deadline for submission of the World Bank scholarships is 28 February 2021.

24 February 2021

COVID-19’s ‘thundering’ effect on taxes

Blog

On Brookings.edu. By Rabah Arezki (African Development Bank and Senior Fellow, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government) and Grégoire Rota-Graziosi (CERDI-CNRS-UCA, and Head of Programme FERDI).

22 February 2021

Off-grid Renewable Energy Statistics Conference

Conference

Mathilde Maurel (Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Ferdi) and Jean-Claude Berthelemy (Professor Emeritus of the Université Panthéon Sorbonne, Ferdi) presented a new approach for economic impact evaluation of decentralised electrification projects.

18 February 2021

REVUE DE PRESSE

Comment 13 partenaires internationaux ont changé la vie des populations de 5 Etats sahéliens depuis 3 ans

Afriquinfos au sujet de la conférence de l'Alliance Sahel sur son bilan à trois ans d’existence : Tertius Zongo, Directeur de la Chaire Sahel (à la FERDI, un organe de recherche indépendant), a insisté sur la question de la redevabilité. «La redevabilité vis-à-vis des populations bénéficiaires est primordiale, notamment parce qu’une des manifestations de la pauvreté réside en ce sentiment de marginalisation des individus les plus vulnérables, c’est-à-dire leur exclusion des décisions qui sont censées présider à leur destinée ».

24 February 2021

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COVID-19’s ‘thundering’ effect on taxes

By Rabah AREZKI, Grégoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI

February 22, 2021

To pass (or not to pass) through international fuel price changes to domestic fuel prices in developing countries: What are the drivers?

By Patrick IMAM, Roland Kangni KPODAR

February 11, 2021

How export shocks corrupt: theory and evidence

By Joël CARIOLLE, Petros G. SEKERIS

February 11, 2021

Tax policy for the post-Covid era

By Rabah AREZKI, Grégoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI

February 03, 2021

New York, Abu Dhabi, London or Stay at Home? Using a Cross-Nested Logit Model to Identify Complex Substitution Patterns in Migration

By Michel BEINE, Michel BIERLAIRE, Frédéric DOCQUIER

January 29, 2021

New models for financing essential services

By Jean-Michel SEVERINO

January 29, 2021

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Chairs

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The Sahel Chair aims to enlighten the decisions of public and private actors in their action to end the Sahel crisis and to promote sustainable development in the region. Its headquarters are in Ouagadougou.

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IHEDD Training courses

The Institute for Advanced Studies in Sustainable Development (IHEDD), is the training institute of the laboratory of excellence Labex IDGM+ "Initiative for Development and Global Governance". IHEDD offers an Economic Policy Management Masters programme (GPE), short training courses (on line or on site), and tailor-made training courses on demand.

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Observatoire de la Compétitivité Durable

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Build your own index

BYIND

The application "Build your index" allows the testing of the Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) by choosing different weights and/or different definitions for the components used by the United Nations. The current series cover 145 developing countries from the 1970s to 2016.

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Taxation of mining industries

Mining taxation

FERDI makes available the first legal and tax database which lists the tax regime applicable to industrial gold mines in 21 African countries from the 1980s to the present, and a simulation tool for sharing the mineral resource rent between states and investors.

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