LS Eco Conseil

Luc Savard, Economist

I am an economist working in consultancy and teaching based in Southern France and heading LS ECO Conseil. I am part-time associate at Aviseo Conseils and affiliate professor of economics at Université de Mayotte and visiting professor at Università degli Studi di Firenze. I was full professor for five years Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Rabat. Previously, I was a professor in Sherbrooke University in Quebec-Canada for over 15 years and worked for IDRC-Canada based in the West and Central Africa Office in Senegal for 5 years. I have also been doing consultancy work for the World Bank, PEP-NET, ADB, IMF, OECD, UNICEF among others.  I specialize in social and economic impact analysis using the CGE-microsimulation framework. I hold a PhD from Paris School of Economics.

I am working on economic and social impact analysis, green fiscal reforms, agricultural reforms and public policies.

Recent featured publications 

Tchapchet Tchouto, J.E., L. Savard, E. Ongo Nkoa, D. Diaw & G. Duthil, Natural Resources Rents, Economic Complexity, Institutions Environment and Industrialization: Are we on the path towards a new Paradigm of Development in some Leading African Countries? Forthcoming in Bulletin of Economic Research

Bouazizi, Y., Oulmakki, O., Savard, L., & Verny, J., Agricultural consequences of the war in Ukraine and spillover effects on the national economy, forthcoming in Economic System Research.

Cateia, J.V. and Savard, L. (2025) Optimal Public Program and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from a Developing Country, Journal of Public Affairs, 25(4), pp. 70086

Cateia, J.V., Vaz Lobo Bittencourt, M., Sabadini Carvalho, T., Savard, L., & de Almeida Oliveira, É. (2025). Trade liberalization, economic growth and welfare in Guinea-Bissau: a CGE modeling. Cogent Economics & Finance, 13(1).

Cateia, J.V. and Savard, L. (2025), On the economic impacts of investment in road construction and maintenance: New applied CGE analysis for Guinea-Bissau,  Review of Development Economics, 29(4), pp. 2157-2180.

Bouazizi, Y., Oulmakki, O., Savard, L., & Verny, J., (2025) The decline of the wage share in value added: what have we learned from North African firms? Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. 72, pp. 150-162.

Cateia, J.V. and Savard, L. (2025), - Trade and distribution in Guinea-Bissau: a computable general equilibrium analysis, International Economics and Economic Policy. 22(4) (2025).

Morchid, W., Haddad, E.A., & Savard, L. (2024), Measuring the Cost of the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism on Moroccan Exports, Sustainability. 16(12), pp. 1-19.

Ben Azzeddine, B., F. Hossaini, and Savard, L. (2024), Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Growth in Morocco: A Decoupling Analysis, Journal of Cleaner Production. 450(141857).

Savard, L., (2024) A socio-economic impact analysis of the political crisis in Burundi with a focus on children: A macro-micro framework, European Journal of Development Research. 36(3), pp. 204-236.

Cateia, J.V. Sabadini Carvalho, T. Bittencourt, M and Savard, L. (2024), -The Impacts of Agricultural Productivity on Structural Transformation, and Poverty Alleviation in Africa: Evidence from Guinea-Bissau, Journal of Productivity Analysis. 61(3), pp 305-320.

Camara, A., and Savard, L. (2024), A Crossed Analysis of Participations in Labor and Grain Markets: Evidence from Malawi, Journal of African Economies. 33(2), 204-223. 

Camara, A., and Savard, L., (2023), Economywide and Distributional Effects of Targeted Agricultural Commercialization Policies An Applied Integrated Micro-Macro Approach, Economic Modelling, 129(106568), 1-13 .

Cateia, J.V. Sabadini Carvalho, T. Bittencourt, M and Savard, L., (2023), Infrastructure Investment, Funding Schemes, and poverty alleviation in Africa, Journal of International Development. 35(6), pp. 1505-1529 .

Fortin, M., Joanis, M. Savard, L. and Kabore, P. (2022), Determination of Quebec's quarterly real GDP and analysis of the business cycle, 1948-1980, Journal of Business Cycle Research. 18(3), pp. 261-288.

Lemelin, A. and Savard, L. (2022), What do CGE models have to say about Fiscal Reform? Economic Analysis and Policy. 74, pp. 758-774.