This paper analyses the Policy-Making Process (PMP) of transport infrastructure projects in Colombia for the period 2002-10. It aims to identify the main bottlenecks to improve the implementation of public policies in the main phases of the transport infrastructure policy cycle, namely planning,...

This paper examines how the different forms of development finance for low-income countries are likely to be affected by the global financial crisis, principally through reductions in remittances, aid flows and FDI. It argues that the channels of transmission of the crisis for particular...

La notion d’« appropriation » locale des politiques de développement a fait son chemin dans la communauté des bailleurs. Pourtant, avec les niveaux actuels de conditionnalité, cette appropriation n’a guère de chance de se conforter. De puissantes raisons militent encore pour le...

Au cours des derniers mois, dans un effort coordonné visant à redresser le système financier mondial, les gouvernements des pays membres de l’OCDE se sont engagés à hauteur de plusieurs milliers de milliards de dollars sous la forme d’emprunts, de garanties, d’injections de capital et...

Au cours des dernières décennies, les IDE ont figuré parmi les principaux bénéficiaires de la libéralisation des mouvements de capitaux, tant et si bien qu’ils constituent aujourd’hui la forme principale des entrées de capitaux dans de nombreux pays en développement, y compris des...

The idea of local “ownership” of development policies is now popular among the donor community, but without a reduction of conditionality on aid disbursements, enhanced ownership will be difficult to achieve. While there are still strong reasons for attaching certain kinds of conditionality...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been one of the principal beneficiaries of the liberalisation of capital flows over recent decades, and now constitutes the major form of capital inflow for many developing countries, including low-income ones like Chad, Mauritania, Sudan and Zambia. But while...

The financial crisis should give a new impetus to governments’ efforts to improve aid effectiveness. Over the last few months, the governments of OECD countries have pledged trillions of dollars in loans, guarantees, capital injections, and other assistance in their coordinated effort to prop...