Podcasts
Is the Moroccan Fiscal System Progressive? A Shapely Decomposition
In a new episode of our Monday Talk Podcast Series, Professors Touhami Abdelkhalek and Dorothée Boccanfuso share their insights on their latest paper titled ''Is the Moroccan Fiscal System Progressive ? A Shapely Decomposition''.
Impact of agricultural input subsidy policy on market participation and income distribution
In a new episode of our Monday Talk Podcast Series, Professor Luc Savard shares his insights on his latest paper titled ''Impact of agricultural input subsidy policy on market participation and income distribution in Africa: A bottom-up/top-down…
Inconsistent weighting in weighted voting games
In a new episode of our Monday Talk Podcast Series, Professor Mostapha Diss sheds light on his article ''Inconsistent weighting in weighted voting games''.
La communication des organisations en contexte de numérisation généralisée
In a new episode of our Monday Talk Podcast Series, Professor Ouidade Sabri discusses her article, ''La communication des organisations en contexte de numérisation généralisée au prisme des disciplines et des épistémologies'', shedding light on the…
Avoiding the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Most-Likely Case
In a new episode of our Monday Talk Podcast Series, Professor Moritz Schmoll and his co-author Professor Geoffrey Swenson share their insights on their latest paper titled "Avoiding the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Most-Likely Case".…
The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences
In a new episode of our Monday Talk Podcast Series, Professor Nicolas Porot shares his insights on his paper titled "The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences". This paper was selected…
Potential Economic Impacts of Agricultural Growth in Africa: Evidence from Guinea-Bissau
In a new episode of our Monday Talk Podcast Series, Professor Luc Savard shares his insights on his paper titled "Potential Economic Impacts of Agricultural Growth in Africa: Evidence from Guinea-Bissau".
Structural change and the National Initiative for Human Development in Morocco
This paper aims to revisit the pace and patterns of structural change in Morocco with a renewed perspective focusing on subnational trends to document the macro patterns. In that perspective, we first build a within-country sectoral longitudinal…
Traditional kingdoms and modern constitutions: parochialism, patriarchy, and despotism vs. indigenous safeguards against absolutism
This chapter pursues three closely related but distinct scholarly aims. The first one is to provide a comparative look at the different ways Africa’s traditional structures of governance are brought into the fold of modern constitutions. There are two…
Countering the Islamic State in the Lake Chad Basin: A case for a security-development-governance nexus?
The Islamic State in the West African province (ISWAP) has gained prominence in Lake Chad Basin by filling in the security, service delivery, and governance gaps in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. This has won the group recruits and support in some…