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Desperately seeking model countries: The World Bank in Vietnam

Cling, Jean-Pierre; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, … - DIAL - 2009

(english) Vietnam is a very important country for the World Bank. It is the first recipient of IDA credits. It is also …, the Bank is very active in Vietnam: it is the first provider of development aid; it is also the leader in economic … research. Starting from a detailed diagnosis on the Bank’s activities in Vietnam and on the contents of policies it promotes in …

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The Curse of the Elders? Aid Effectiveness and Gerontocracy in Developing Countries

Raffinot, Marc; Venet, Baptiste - DIAL - 2011

(english) In this paper we use a simple standard overlapping-generation model to assess the impact of foreign aid. Because of deference to the elders, donors are not able to modify the sharing out of aid between the old and the young in the recipient economy. The model shows that, if aid is...

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Partenaires émergents : quels enjeux pour la soutenabilité de la dette africaine ?

Dahoun, Dieudonné Bleossi; Raffinot, Marc - DIAL - 2012

(english) After debt cancellations, in particular MDRI (Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative) debt ratios in Low Income Country dropped to historic lows. They are now getting into debt again, because of Bretton Woods Institutions (BWI) new loans, of emerging countries’ (namely China) loans, and...

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Ownership : l’appropriation des politiques de développement, de la théorie à la mise en pratique

Raffinot, Marc - DIAL - 2009

(english) The ownership of the development policies is the very basis of the new international consensus formulated in the Paris Declaration (2005). The theoretical foundations of this approach remain somehow unclear, and we can hardly consider that PRSPs are really “owned” by the recipient...

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Supervision and Project Performance: A Principal-Agent Approach

Chauvet, Lisa; Collier, Paul; Fuster, Andreas - DIAL - 2015

This paper extends and applies principal-agent theory to the performance of donor projects. There is variation in the degree of divergence between the interests of the donor (the principal) and the recipient government (the agent). Further, the effort expended on observation of the agent is a...

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Santé, Inégalités et ruptures sociales à Antananarivo, Premiers résultats de l’enquête SIRS 2003

Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François; … - DIAL - 2012

"choosing" the informal sector in Vietnam, a massive and unknown component of the Vietnamese economy. Instead of focusing on …’attache à explorer la question des déterminants du « choix » du travail dans le secteur informel au Vietnam, une composante …

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Household entrepreneurship and social networks:panel data evidence from Vietnam

Nguyen, Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe - DIAL - 2014

(english) Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between …. _________________________________ (français) En utilisant un panel de microentreprises familiales au Vietnam, cet article met en relation le réseau social des …

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Are Remittances More Effective Than Aid To Reduce Child Mortality? An Empirical Assessment using Inter and Intra-Country Data

Chauvet, Lisa; Gubert, Flore; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - DIAL - 2009

This paper analyzes the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain on child mortality using panel and cross-country quintile-level data on respectively 84 and 46 developing countries. Our results show that remittances reduce child mortality and that the impact of health aid is...

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Impact des financements internationaux sur les inégalités des pays en développement

Chauvet, Lisa; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - DIAL - 2006

We propose an econometric analysis of the distributive impact of trade flows, foreign direct investment (FDI), official aid and migrants’ remittances. Results suggest that FDI increases inequality, while remittances tend to reduce inequality. Trade and aid have a non-linear relationship with...

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Helping Hand ? Aid to Failing States

Chauvet, Lisa; Collier, Paul - DIAL - 2006

We define ‘failing states’ are those low-income states in which policy and governance is persistently very bad. We develop a theory of reform in these states in which several characteristics of the society might potentially be the binding constraint on change. We then introduce aid,...

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