nep-afr New Economics Papers
on Africa
Issue of 2024–12–30
four papers chosen by
Sam Sarpong, Xiamen University Malaysia Campus


  1. Informing Risky Migration: Evidence from a field experiment in Guinea. By Giacomo Battiston; Lucia Corno; Eliana La Ferrara
  2. Corporate taxation in Senegal: Reform and tax avoidance By Luisito Bertinelli; Arnaud Bourgain; Seydi Ababacar Dieng;
  3. Modernizing Agriculture Should be the Growth Model for Africa By Hung Tran
  4. Toward a consciencism of accounting research on the African continent: A review of the international literature By Serge Agbodjo; Konan Anderson Seny Kan

  1. By: Giacomo Battiston; Lucia Corno (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore); Eliana La Ferrara
    Abstract: Can providing information to potential migrants in uence their decisions about risky and irregular migration? We conduct an experiment with over 7, 000 secondary school students in Guinea, providing information through video testimonials by migrants who settled in Europe and through aggregate statistics. We implement three treatments: (i) information about the risks of the journey; (ii) information about economic outcomes in the destination country; and (iii) a combination of both. One month after the intervention, all treatments led students to update their beliefs about the risks and the economic outcomes of migration, resulting in decreased intentions to migrate. One year later, the Risk Treatment resulted in a 51% decline in migration outside Guinea. This e ect was driven by a decrease in migration without a visa (i.e., potentially risky and irregular) and was more pronounced among poorer students. These findings are consistent with the predictions of a model where individuals choose between not migrating, migrating regularly, or migrating irregularly, and where information increases the perceived cost of irregular migration, thus decreasing migration among poorer students who cannot a ord regular migration.
    Keywords: irregular migration, tracking, information experiment, Guinea.
    JEL: F22 O15 J61 D8 C93
    Date: 2024–11
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ctc:serie1:def136
  2. By: Luisito Bertinelli (DEM, Université du Luxembourg, LU); Arnaud Bourgain (DEM, Université du Luxembourg, LU); Seydi Ababacar Dieng (University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, SN); (University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, SN)
    Abstract: Based on a very large number of Senegalese companies representing the quasi-universe of the formal sector, this study identifies the main drivers of the effective tax rates (ETR) at the firm level, which is a standard way to assess the extent of tax avoidance. We mainly find that ETR tends to decline with firm size and that the 2013 reform generated a general increase of ETR but a ETR reduction for large firms. This result is robust even after accounting for a few unobservable time, industry and firm characteristics.
    Keywords: Effective Tax Rate; Tax avoidance; Corporate income Tax; Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa; Tax exemption.
    JEL: H25 O17 O55
    Date: 2024
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:luc:wpaper:24-10
  3. By: Hung Tran
    Abstract: China and India have become powerful incumbents in the manufacturing-for-exports and services-for-exports sectors, respectively. This has made it difficult for Africa, as a latecomer, to employ similar growth models for its own development. Given current geopolitical tension, its own comparative advantages and urgent needs, modernizing agriculture should be the growth model for Africa.
    Date: 2024–10
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ocp:pbagri:pb_54-24
  4. By: Serge Agbodjo (LGTO - Laboratoire de Gestion et des Transitions Organisationnelles - UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT - Université de Toulouse); Konan Anderson Seny Kan (EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management)
    Abstract: Accounting research on the African continent is indeed present in the international accounting literature. It remains relatively invisible because it is part of the field of accounting research in emerging economies, which itself does not feature in the dominant streams of accounting research. This study aims to understand the state of accounting knowledge on the African continent through a systematic analysis of 326 research articles published in 38 international accounting journals over a period of 43 years (1980–2022). Our results show that accounting research on Africa represents only 1.2% of studies published in international academic accounting journals over the period 1980–2022. The results also detail the accounting domains and the methodological and theoretical approaches of the international accounting literature on African countries. Furthermore, our results provide an understanding of the forms of theorization that structure African accounting knowledge in the international literature, namely the theorization of the political and historical connection on the one hand, and the theorization of the epistemic connection, on the other. Additionally, this study proposes, in the light of consciencism, a discussion of positive, transformative accounting actions, in resistance to negative accounting actions of subjugation. Finally, a research program made up of eight (8) avenues for future research that address various gaps in the literature is proposed.
    Abstract: La recherche comptable sur le continent africain est bien présente dans la littérature comptable internationale. Elle reste encore peu visible car elle fait partie du champ de la recherche comptable dans les pays émergents qui lui-même ne figure pas dans les champs dominants de la recherche comptable. Cette étude vise à la compréhension de l'état de la connaissance comptable sur le continent africain par le biais d'une analyse systématique de 326 articles de recherche publiés dans 38 revues internationales comptables sur une période de 43 années (1980-2022). Nos résultats montrent que les recherches comptables sur l'Afrique ne représentent que 1, 2 % des travaux publiés dans les revues académiques comptables internationales sur la période 1980-2022. Les résultats détaillent également les domaines comptables et les approches méthodologiques et théoriques de la littérature comptable internationale dans les pays africains. Par ailleurs, nos résultats permettent de comprendre les formes de théorisation qui structurent la connaissance comptable africaine dans la littérature internationale, en l'occurrence, la théorisation du lien politique et historique d'une part, et la théorisation du lien épistémique , d'autre part. De plus, cette étude propose, à l'aune du consciencisme , une discussion des actions comptables positives, transformatrices, en résistance aux actions comptables négatives d'assujettissement. Enfin, un programme de recherche décliné en huit (8) voies de recherches futures qui pallient différents manquements de la littérature est proposé.
    Keywords: accounting, Africa, literature review, development, emerging economies, consciencism, pays émergents, consciencisme, revue de littérature, afrique, comptabilité, développement
    Date: 2024–10–24
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:gemptp:halshs-04830453

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