Senegal
This paper analyses the role of total factor productivity as a determinant of competitivity in Senegalese manufacturing industries. It is based upon a panel of ten industrial manufacturing groups and covers the period 1974-94. Following an estimation of the production function of manufacturing industry, the paper identifies the roles of public investment, protectionist measures, and the level of qualification of the workforce used by the different sectors in the evolution of industrial total factor productivity. Particular attention is given to external economies as a source of improved productivity and the role of public investment as a factor in favour of such gains. The results show major differences between Senegalese manufacturing industries as far as the growth of total factor productivity is concerned. Insufficient public investment in infrastructure and the high level of protectionism appear to plan an important role in the unfavourable evolution of productivity and ...
Poor people lack access to health care with a negative impact on their dignity, human capital formation and their risk-management options. Recently an emerging movement of community-based health insurance schemes has attracted the attention of policy makers and researchers as it seems that these schemes target the poor more efficiently. Taking the example of community-based health insurance schemes in rural Senegal this paper identifies the factors explaining participation in these schemes. Using household survey data of non-members and members, we found that household income, religion, village characteristics and the belonging to a certain ethnic group exert the strongest influence on the probability of participation. From these findings, it follows that i) although the schemes reach the “poor” in general, the “poorest of the poor” within the villages find it financially difficult to participate; ii) social exclusion due to religion or ethnic group might persist. Several options ...
Senegal has displayed great economic vigour since the 1994 devaluation, with annual GDP growth of more than 5 per cent. Amid this sustained growth, 2000-2002 was a transition period, when a peaceful transfer of political power boosted confidence in the future even though the changeover has made economic decision-makers cautious and delayed programmes in some sectors. The country is also having trouble completing structural reforms that are part of its programme with the IMF, such as privatising the electricity company (Sénélec) and the groundnut marketing body (Sonacos). These two firms have accumulated large deficits that the government had to make up for in 2001, badly skewing the budget. So relations with the Bretton Woods institutions are a little tense, while at home the government is coming to the end of its honeymoon that followed the political changeover. But a good economic performance in 2002 saw GDP grow by an estimated 4.8 per cent. 2003 may be a difficult year, especially as the 2002/03 harvest is not very promising, and GDP growth could fall to 4.1 per cent. However, the country could benefit from investment and trade redirected from Côte d’Ivoire because of the fighting there…
Les performances économiques du Nigeria restent mitigées. En 2001, le PIB réel a affiché un rythme de croissance modéré, à 3.9 pour cent, contre une moyenne annuelle de 3.3 pour cent depuis 1995, et les perspectives de croissance demeurent incertaines. En 2002, le PIB réel devait reculer d’environ 1.3 pour cent, avant de renouer avec une croissance positive à 3.1 pour cent en 2003. Les résultats 2001 sont intervenus dans un environnement d’affaiblissement des fondamentaux : exacerbation des pressions inflationnistes, hausse des taux d’intérêt et forte dépréciation du taux de change du naira. La situation budgétaire s’est considérablement dégradée, par suite de l’augmentation des dépenses et du recul des recettes. Le gouvernement du Nigeria a du mal à réduire les dépenses en raison du fédéralisme budgétaire et, malgré leur progression, les principaux services sociaux, qui influent directement sur la réduction de la pauvreté, n’ont pas connu d’amélioration significative. La situation financière du pays devrait s’améliorer en 2002, avec une contraction du déficit global qui se poursuivra en 2003. La politique d’expansion budgétaire menée par le gouvernement en 2001 a entraîné une croissance monétaire qui a intensifié les pressions inflationnistes et contribué au relèvement des taux d’intérêt et à la dépréciation du naira…
WITH A VIBRANT DEMOCRACY, relatively developed industrial sector and good geographic position, Senegal could replace pre-crisis Côte d’Ivoire as the motor for growth in French Africa. Following the collapse of agricultural production and a growth rate of just 1.1 per cent in 2002, the country has recovered with two consecutive years of marked economic growth: 6.5 per cent in 2003 and an estimated 6 per cent in 2004. Although partly due to exogenous...
Les migrations ouest-africaines vers les pays de l’OCDE sont essentiellement à caractère économique, et concerne des ressortissants de pays dont le niveau de développement ne permet pas au plus grand nombre de vivre décemment et où, en particulier, les cadres et techniciens, souvent en nombre largement suffisant pour assurer le développement du pays, ne trouvent pas d’emplois solvables correspondant à leur qualification.
Most West Africans who migrate to the OECD area are economic immigrants, from countries where development is such that the majority of the population cannot live decently and where key workers and technicians, in particular, are largely sufficient in number to ensure development but unable to find established jobs in line with their qualifications.
Après des décennies de croissance économique moyenne, le Sénégal enregistre depuis plusieurs années une progression annuelle légèrement supérieure à 5 pour cent, grâce essentiellement aux politiques macroéconomiques et aux réformes structurelles. Ce résultat relativement élevé par rapport aux autres pays de la région, associé à une alternance politique plutôt sereine lors des élections démocratiques de 2000 et aux réformes en cours du cadre institutionnel, concourt à faire de ce pays un cas intéressant sur le plan des évolutions socioéconomiques en Afrique subsaharienne.
After decades of very average economic growth, Senegal has recorded annual increases slightly above 5 per cent for several years now, largely due to macroeconomic policies and structural reforms. Linked to a generally calm transition of power following the democratic elections of 2000 and to ongoing institutional reforms, this relatively high growth makes the country an interesting case of socio-economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This chapter offers reflections on the goal of universal access, drawing on insights from experience in Ghana, Senegal and Nepal, as a way to help water and sanitation professionals see more clearly the nature of the challenges posed by a goal of universal access in the sector. The costs of providing improved piped municipal water and sanitation services are also examined.
SENEGAL’S GDP GREW AT A RATE of 2.1 per cent in 2006 and 2.8 per cent in 2007, well below previous forecasts. This was due to a number of factors. First, the crisis experienced by Industries chimiques du Sénégal (ICS), the country’s largest phosphates producer, was still unresolved. Second, higher levels of prices for oil products have continued or even worsened, affecting state subsidies, price levels and the budget deficit. In addition there was poor rainfall and a weak system for marketing groundnuts. As a result of the combination of these factors,most of the country’s traditional export sectors (fish products, phosphates, groundnuts) experienced stagnation or are in serious economic difficulties, with Senegal losing substantialmarket share compared with all its competitors.
Senegal: Stock of Total External Debt (percentage of GDP) and Debt Service (percentage of exports of goods and services) appears in African Economic Outlook 2009.
Senegal: Public Finances (percentage of GDP at current prices) appears in African Economic Outlook 2009.