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This paper contributes to literature on the process of reform in Latin America. We study political economy aspects and the policy making process of reforms in what we identify as the five critical steps through the "life cycle" of a policy reform: the Planning, Dialogue, Adoption,...
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In November 2005, Glenys Kinnock, Co-President of the ACP EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, reported that “there are more nurses from Malawi in Manchester than in Malawi and more doctors from Ethiopia in Chicago than Ethiopia.”1 These Africans had been lured North by work permits targeted at...
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Aid and trade policies – in OECD countries and in developing countries – might reinforce each other to promote development, or they might be substitutes: the sign of the correlation between trade and aid flows depends on the context. East Asia’s rapid growth demonstrates the important...
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Efforts to establish, test and analyse hypotheses regarding cross-country variations in women’s economic status are hampered by the lack of a readily accessible and easily used information resource on the various dimensions of gender inequality. Addressing this gap, this paper introduces the <a href="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/19/28/36223936.xls"...</a>
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Natural disasters (droughts, earthquakes, epidemics, floods, wind storms) damage wellbeing, both in their immediate and long-term aftermath, and because the insecurity of exposure to disasters is in itself harmful to risk-averse people. As such, mitigating and coping with the risk of natural...
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Le 26 décembre 2004, un tsunami a déferlé sur l’océan Indien, faisant, d’après l’examen effectué par les Nations unies six mois plus tard (juin 2005), plus de 225 000 morts. Ce raz-de-marée a suscité un effort humanitaire planétaire d’une ampleur sans précédent. Particuliers,...
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Dans les pays de l’OCDE comme dans les pays en développement, l’aide et les politiques commerciales peuvent se conforter mutuellement au bénéfice du développement, ou se substituer les unes aux autres. La manifestation d’une corrélation entre flux commerciaux et flux d’aide dépend...
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Cette base de données (EID) représente un nouvel instrument pour les chercheurs et responsables politiques qui leur permet de connaître et d’analyser les obstacles à la participation des femmes au développement économique.
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La politique budgétaire n’a nullement été négligée en Amérique latine. Depuis la fin de la crise de la dette des années 1980, les pays de la région se sont attachés à réduire leurs dépenses. Les déficits budgétaires sont tombés de 11 pour cent des recettes publiques dans les...
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Latin America has not neglected fiscal policy. Since the end of the debt crisis of the 1980s, governments in the region have tightened their belts assiduously. Fiscal deficits have fallen from 11 per cent of public revenues in the 1970s and 1980s, to only 8 per cent since 2000. The year-to-year...
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