The Aid for Trade (AFT) Initiative was announced at the 2005 Hong-Kong World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial. Then, Doha round talks were stalled as developing countries were disenchanted with the world trading system they had signed up to a decade earlier under the Single Undertaking,...

The Aid for Trade (AFT) Initiative was announced at the 2005 Hong-Kong World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial. Then, Doha round talks were stalled as developing countries were disenchanted with the world trading system they had signed up to a decade earlier under the Single Undertaking,...

Aid has been for decades an important source of financing for developing countries, but more recently remittance flows have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper investigates how remittances affect aid flows, and how this relationship varies depending on the channel...

Aid has been for decades an important source of financing for developing countries, but more recently remittance flows have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper investigates how remittances affect aid flows, and how this relationship varies depending on the channel...

Le sentiment de nombreux dirigeants des pays en développement est que les engagements d’aide des pays industrialisés vis-à-vis des pays en développement mettent plusieurs années à se concrétiser par des dépenses. Or des délais longs et variables rendent imprévisibles les flux...

This paper considers why and how the PBA (performance based allocation) used in multilateral development banks and in particular at IDA, could be improved by taking the structural vulnerability of eligible countries into account. This improvement is needed for several reasons. The PBA relies on...

Developmental thought is like fashion. Like clothing, it is trend-dependent. Attempting to keep step with mysterious deviations and confusing twists and turns in the policies of so-called “rich” countries towards “poor” countries canbe an exhausting process.It would appear that no-one is...

Tous les pays n’ont pas la même capacité à utiliser efficacement l’aide pour promouvoir leur développement. Dans le contexte de diminution de l’aide au développement des années quatre-vingt-dix, il était normal que la question de l’efficacité de l’aide et partant de son...

The last fifteen years have seen an intensive discussion on the effectiveness of aid. Part of the debate focused on the (often confusing and conflicting) evidence from growth regressions regarding the effect of aid on economic growth in recipient countries. A different discussion (probably of...

Tous les pays n’ont pas la même capacité à utiliser efficacement l’aide pour promouvoir leur développement. Dans le contexte de diminution de l’aide au développement des années quatre-vingt-dix, il était normal que la question de l’efficacité de l’aide et partant de son...