The main objective of this paper is to study the determinants of city population growth in China during the 1990s', as well as the determinants of migrations towards cities, which constitutes the main source of urban population growth in this period. A second objective is to identify regional...

L'objectif de l'étude est d'analyser la relation entre l'aide au développement et le prélèvement public. Il s'agit de d'évaluer si l'aide incite les pays receveurs à réduire leur taux de prélèvement, autrement dit s'il existe en effet d'éviction des recettes publiques par l'aide...

This paper investigates the relationship between firm-level productivity and investment climate (IC) for a large number of countries (23) and manufacturing industries (8). We first propose three measures of firms' productive performances: Labor Productivity (LP), Total Factor Productivity (TFP),...

By using a simultaneous equations model, this paper establishes that the perceived quality of governance, which is measured by three different indicators “Quality of Administration”, “Public Accountability” and “Political Stability”, has a positive effect on the private investment...

Dans les années 90, on a pu constater une diminution des volumes d'aide dans un contexte de remise en question de l'utilité de l'aide. Sous l'impulsion des objectifs du millénaire, l'aide est repartie à la hausse mais la préoccupation pour une meilleure efficacité de l'aide est devenue...

Ethical foundations of the development aid of France may be found in General de Gaulle's speeches and in Paul VI's encyclical Popularum Progressio, the roots of which are the New Testament. This article aims at reconciling ethic with aid effectiveness as it is defined by economics. It analyses...

This research focused on the determinants of vulnerability, as measured by the variable of expenditure on food consumption, by the quality of public service delivery as measured by three education variables (amount of students per teacher in primary education, amount of students per teacher in...

This paper analyzes aid allocation from a normative point of view. It attempts to design aid allocation criteria adapted to development goals and combining the principles of effectiveness and equity in a transparent and integrated framework. The common view about aid selectivity, which...

This article investigates how financial development is beneficial to the reduction of poverty, on the one hand by promoting growth and in the other hand directly by the McKinnon conduit effect. At the same time, however, financial instability which accompanies financial development is...

Les pays d'Afrique subsaharienne sont engagés dans des politiques de libéralisation commerciale. Afin de préserver, voire de renforcer leur niveau de ressources publiques, ces pays mettent actuellement en œuvre des politiques de transition fiscale qui ont pour objectif de substituer des...