Cet article propose une réflexion portant sur les politiques agricoles, en mettant l’accent sur la question alimentaire (mais en écartant ici les aspects relatifs aux politiques commerciales). Cette réflexion est conduite en acceptant l’idée que l’intervention publique dans ce secteur...

This paper studies the opportunities and barriers for Sovereign Wealth Funds’ (SWFs) investments in Africa. Based on historical databases on SWFs’ transactions, it shows that SWFs can facilitate up to 50% of the investment needs in infrastructure in Africa over the next decade to meet the...

Cet article propose une analyse critique des règles multilatérales de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) appliquées au secteur agricole. La première section présente les principales tendances de l’évolution du commerce international de produits agricoles, en distinguant la...

La thèse s’inscrit dans le contexte actuel de régulation internationale de la sécurité sanitaire des aliments. Elle se situe au croisement de la théorie du commerce international, de l’économie industrielle et de l’économie du développement. Il s’agit d’évaluer les conditions...

L’épisode de hausse de prix des produits agricoles sur la période 2006-2008 a remis au cÅ“ur des préoccupations internationales la question de la sécurité alimentaire mondiale. Dans ce contexte, les Pays les Moins Avancés sont passés, depuis le début des années 1990, d’une...

This paper reviews the literature and contributes with some evidence based on the World Values Survey on the drivers of tax morale around the world, with an emphasis on developing countries. It shows that socio-economic factors such as age, religion, gender, employment status and educational...

While the econometric literature on the impact of immigration on labour markets is well developed, there is a striking gap with regards to the impact of emigration on sending countries. Building on the established literature measuring the impact of immigration, this paper attempts to narrow that...

A wide range of voices around the world have stressed the need to understand development as a multidimensional phenomenon that involves and affects many aspects of people’s lives. Increasingly, it is recognised that current well-being and its long-term sustainability are the ultimate goals of...

This study provides a general analysis of economic relations between Spain, as a donor of official development assistance (ODA), and Ecuador, as a partner and recipient of development aid. It seeks to assess the potential (in)coherence between Spain’s foreign economic activities and the goals...

This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of Latin America. The region’s development performance is...