Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Les "batailles" de Paris et de New York: Une analyse du comportement électoral transnational des migrants sénégalais en France et aux États-Unis

Dual nationality and citizenship, and external voting rights have been granted by a majority of countries for the last years. This article uses original data collected through a multi-sited survey among Senegalese migrants living in France and in the United States during the first round of Senegals 2012 presidential election to analyse the electoral behaviour of Senegalese migrants and social remittances between destination and origin countries. Senegalese migrants are found to be strongly associated with high level of electoral par- ticipation not only in their origin country but also in their host country for those having dual citi- zenship. Our data also reveal a large range of social remittances between destination and origin countries, which translate into voting recommen- dations that exert strong influence when they come from the migrants

Third DIAL Conference on Barriers to Development

The DIAL Conference on Development Economics, held every two years since 2011, is attended by over 150 researchers meeting to discuss recent contributions from research in development and internati...

Le Nouveau partenariat pour le développement de l'Afrique (NEPAD): trois éléments de critique

ABSTRACT The New Partnership for Africas Development (better known as NEPAD) is a strategic development framework for the African continent. This article examines the documents relevance as well as the policies advocated. Criticisms focus on the documents economic content. This paper argues that (1) the issue of investment financing is handled rather awkwardly and the investment options are not adequately ranked, (2) policies to battle poverty are insuficiently developed, and (3) the project is based on an excessively minimalist approach to the role of governments in Africa.