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Impact économique de l’octroi de mer dans les Départements d’Outre-mer français
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L’objet de cette étude est d’évaluer l’impact budgétaire et économique de l’Octroi de mer (OM) tel qu’il est appliqué aujourd’hui, et notamment d’estimer la protection qu’il apporte aux entreprises des Départements et régions d’outre-mer (DOM).
27 March 2020
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Afrique réseaux
Afrique : le spectre du coronavirus
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Par Paul Derreumaux.  
27 March 2020
The Observatory's data have been updated.
DATA
The Sustainable Competitiveness Observatory measures the economic strengths and weaknesses of 54 African countries. 
10 March 2020
Plus on retarde l’épidémie, mieux le système pourra s’adapter
MEDIA
Entretien de Josselin Thuilliez, économiste de la santé et senior fellow Ferdi, pour le journal du CNRS. Josselin Thuilliez travaille sur les épidémies et l’impact sur celles-ci des comportements individuels, des différents systèmes de santé et des politiques de contrôle. Il fait partie de Reacting, un consortium de chercheurs mis en place pour coordonner la recherche sur les épidémies émergentes.
27 March 2020

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Barriers to trade in environmental goods: How important they are and what should developing countries expect from their removal
By Jaime DE MELO, Jean-Marc SOLLEDER
June 30, 2020
Rules for Recovery: Impact of Indexed Disaster Funds on Shock Coping in Mexico
By Alain DE JANVRY, Alejandro DEL VALLE, Elisabeth SADOULET
April 30, 2020
Impact économique de l’octroi de mer dans les Départements d’Outre-mer français
By Anne-Marie GEOURJON, Bertrand LAPORTE
March 26, 2020
Market Power and Export Taxes
By Jean-Marc SOLLEDER
March 20, 2020
Coronavirus : plus on retarde l’épidémie, mieux le système pourra s’adapter
By Josselin THUILLIEZ
March 20, 2020
International Connectivity and the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Joël CARIOLLE
March 18, 2020

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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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