Aid coordination is a constant theme of discussion among national and international aid agencies in their search for more effectiveness and efficiency in delivering development assistance. This paper seeks to clarify some of the arguments currently made in support of aid coordination, and to...

C'est la mission de ceux qui sont invités à prononcer cette conférence annuelle prestigieuse que d'illustrer comment la science économique permet de guider la décision dans des situations réelles et d'orienter l'action des managers d'entreprise ou des politiciens. Par son oeuvre...

The distributional incidence of growth is generally analyzed by comparing the quantiles of the pre- and post-growth income distribution -e.g. the so-called Growth Incidence Curves. Such an approach based on an implicit re-ranking of individual incomes ignores income mobility by assuming that...

Increased attention to the issue of aid effectiveness has sparked a flurry of empirical studies attempting to measure the macro-level impact of aid flows on the performances of developing countries. These studies yield ambiguous and even contradictory results and one possible source of confusion...