Analyse l'épargne mondiale et explore les voies qui permettraient d'améliorer le fonctionnement des marchés boursiers et financiers, afin de rééquilibrer le partage de l'épargne entre Etats-Unis, Europe et pays pauvres et d'assurer un développement plus équitable au niveau mondial....

This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become...

This paper takes full advantage of daily quoted prices of microfinance stocks from their issuance, and draws a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity from the viewpoint of a profit-oriented investor. We construct microfinance country equity indices and an international global...

Présente les mécanismes régulateurs des marchés financiers et leurs limites. A la question de savoir si le marché boursier est l'ennemi de la croissance, cet exposé montre que son rôle est de faciliter l'allocation de l'épargne entre entreprises, entre secteurs, entre pays, mais aussi de...

In Turkey, between 1994 and 2005, growth has been pro-poor in terms of rate of growth of income, but not in absolute values. This result is debatable. Firstly because the poorest (centiles 0 to 20) did increase more than the average their expenditures on health and education, which should be...

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,...

Outsourcing and its corollary, offshoring, often mistaken, go on growing, in spite of some ebbing away. It has been especially the case for the financial services industry over the last couple of years. The insurance sector is no exception, even though the trend started off later than in the...