Wage Dynamics in Africa Achievements and Challenges

Michel-Pierre Chélini,
Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Economic History at the University of Artois (Arras), and Associate Professor at the Catholic Institute of Paris, specialises in the history of prices, inflation, wages and the impact of household purchases on the French, European and global economies since 1950. He has recently published a history of wages in France from the 1940s to the 1960s, entitled Histoire des salaires en France 1944-1967, Berne, Peter Lang, 2021. He is currently leading an international informal research programme (WAGE: Wage Analysis in a Globalising Environment), initially supported by the National Research Agency (ANR), on wages and globalisation since the 1950s/60s. In particular, he is preparing the edition of a book on Wages and Globalization, Initial findings (Peter Lang, 2026) and occasionally contributes to the French newspaper Le Monde with opinion pieces on inflation and wages since 2022.

Eveline Baumann,
PhD, is a socio-economist, honorary research fellow at CESSMA (Centre d’études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques, Université Paris Cité – IRD – Inalco). She has carried out field research in sub-Saharan Africa (Senegal, Mali, Cameroon) and the post-Soviet space (Georgia). Her main areas of interest concern labour, informal activities, small-scale fisheries, microfinance, and social protection. Her publications include Sénégal.

Philippe Adair,
PhD in Economics and PhD in Sociology, is Emeritus Professor of Economics and an ERUDITE research fellow at University Paris-Est Créteil, France. He specialises in Labour Economics (i.e., the informal economy) and Financial Economics (i.e., small business funding including microfinance) in developing and developed countries. He records over one hundred publications. He is an Editorial Board member of Mondes en Développement (a ranked journal), a vice-president of Association Tiers-Monde and the Editor of the Maghreb-Machrek journal.