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 Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. I was full professor for five years in the same university. 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 

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, https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13210.

Cateia, J.V. Sabadini Carvalho, T. Bittencourt, M., de Oliveira Almeida, E.  and Savard, L. (2025), Trade liberalization, economic growth and welfare in Guinea-Bissau: A CGE modeling approach. Forthcoming in Cogent Economics and Finance.

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. Sabadini, T., Bittencourt, M 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.