Cette étude évalue le coût des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD) pour les pays qui doivent encore les atteindre. Elle dépasse la notion d’aide en mesurant la capacité des pays à accomplir leur développement social par eux-mêmes. À trois ans de l’échéance de...

This study contributes to the current debate on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), their relevance and what can be done after 2015, by looking at estimates of the cost of reaching the goals in 2015. In particular, it sizes the additional resources needed in developing countries...

[fre] La comptabilité générationnelle constitue certainement un complément intéressant à la traditionnelle mesure de déficit budgétaire si elle est utilisée avec clarté et précaution. En ce qui concerne la Belgique, les générations futures verraient leurs taxes nettes croître au...

Belgium like many other industrialized countries is facing serious problems in financing its social security. Whereas the effects of aging are still to come, Belgium currently experiences one of the lowest attachments to the labor force of older persons. This paper presents the key features of...

This paper aims at providing an estimate of the resource envelope required in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on the global level. As widely acknowledged by previous contributors to this literature, modelling the cost of achieving the MDGs poses many data and...

This article uses a nonparametric approach to investigate the nexus between mineral wealth and human capital accumulation across countries. Higher mineral wealth is associated with elevated levels of human capital in a cross-section of countries. Matching the overall level of economic...