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The main purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of public education, health and labour market policies in reducing poverty in developing countries.
We use different types of public interventions, namely minimum wages, child labour, government expenses, public education spending and public health spending.
The empirical estimates are based on a balanced panel data set covering 34 developing countries from 2000 to 2019. For sensitivity and robustness of the findings, three different measures of poverty are used in fixed effect models.
The study concludes that abolishing child labour, increasing government spending, and increasing education spending contribute to poverty reduction. However, raising health spending and the minimum wage do not have the desired effects.
Finally, several policy conclusions are made to improve our understanding of why certain policy measures are designed and implemented in developing economies.

Poverty, Development, Developing countries, Public policy --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Systèmes économiques & économie publique

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This paper analyses impact of trade agreement on the trade flow of goods and services, the intra-regional trade volume within the Economic Community of West African States (the ECOWAS) signed in 1975, and therefore been revised in 1993; the evolution of the economic development and welfare in the production sector in west Africa by analyzing trade data of fifteen countries from 1990- 2020 collected from CEPII and World’s Bank. database. 
This research will analyse our variable using the Gravity econometrics Model of trade for statistical estimation. The main variables we are working with are as follow: the GDP per capita, the trade volume, the population, the distance, the language as dummy variable, the political stability and the education background. We emphasize on the real impact the distance, the language and the political stability have on inter- regional trade.in this area. 
Moreover, we will analyse the effectiveness of the implementation of the free trade agreement policy and its impact on the volume of trade and the flow of goods and services between the ECOWAS countries. Our goal is to analyse various variables and to point out the most pertinent enough to improve the FTA that influence positively in the short run the volume of trade exchange within the countries.

Sciences économiques & de gestion > Economie internationale