This paper presents a comparative analysis of the stabilizing effect of official development assistance (ODA) and migrant remittances. First, at the country level and for each kind of flows it assesses their stabilizing impact with regard to the fluctuation of exports, as distinct from their...

This paper considers why and how the Performance Based Allocation (PBA) used in multilateral development banks and in particular at IDA, could be improved by taking the structural handicaps of eligible countries into account. The PBA relies on a debatable definition of performance. It does not...

La négociation sur la finance pour le climat a jusqu'ici peu traité de son allocation entre pays en développement. Ce chapitre examine comment devraient être alloués les fonds concessionnels destinés à l'adaptation. Il repose sur un principe, qui est d'allouer ces fonds aux pays...

How far is it a benefit to be classified as a LDC? To address this issue several approaches are conceivable.A first approach would be to consider how the developing countries themselves perceive the benefits and costs of membership. [...]A second approach consists to review all the measures that...

Making development financing in LDCs more conducive to development should be a priority for the next Programme of Action of the Istanbul Conference. It needs to go beyond the old and emblematic target of ODA to LDCs, which is too far to be reached. The present paper examines four issues.

This paper examines the vulnerability of African countries to climate change, for which they are not responsible. It is based on an index of structural or physical vulnerability to climate change at the country level, denominated below by the acronym PVCCI. This index has been created recently...

Cet article vise à comprendre comment les PMA tendent à être exclus de la gouvernance économique mondiale ou au mieux à jouer un rôle marginal. Il montre que cette situation est d'autant plus paradoxale que les décisions collectives ont une influence considérable sur leur économie, à...

Les trois premiers Forums ont fait émerger un discours apparemment consensuel sur l'efficacité de l'aide, nourri d'un vocabulaire convenu, d'autant mieux accepté qu'il était souvent ambigu. Ainsi s'est développée une rhétorique sur l'efficacité de l'aide où l'on n'a cessé de mettre en...

We analyse the relationship between income volatility and inequality and the conditional role played by aid and remittances. Using a panel of 142 countries for the period 1973 to 2012, we find that income volatility has an adverse impact on inequality, and that the poorest people are the most...

Introduction: A short story of the LDCs graduation[1]The Least Developed Country (LDC) category was from the start meant to include low income countries facing structural handicaps to economic growth (in the 2011 CDP report economic growth has been replaced with "sustainable development"). Under...