Les infrastructures de transport ont été dangereusement négligées ces dernières années en Afrique. Le manque d’infrastructures de transport est un frein à l’intégration économique et à la réduction de la pauvreté.

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...

Les troubles politiques et sociaux ont empiré en 2007 mais la tendance reste positive sur le long terme. Les progrès démocratiques se poursuivent malgré quelques échecs serieux. Les institutions démocratiques doivent encourager le dialogue et la cohésion sociale.

Grâce au progrès technologique et aux nouvelles pratiques d’organisation, les producteurs des pays en développement participent de plus en plus aux échanges internationaux d’une large gamme de biens et de services. Pourtant, les entreprises des pays industriels décident souvent de...

There is an increasing concern in the development community about the increase in the ‘feminisation of bad jobs’ of many developing countries. Indeed, recent analysis shows a growing proportion of women are in jobs with poor working conditions and low pay. But what is driving this...

GDP per capita in Latin America has been falling behind high-income countries and other benchmarks for decades and the region’s mediocre growth performance is one of the main reasons why poverty reduction, and living standards more generally, in the region is well below that observed in peer...

This paper analyses fiscal policy for several economies in Latin America, from the early nineties to the 2009 crisis. We present original estimates of cyclically-adjusted public revenues for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay implementing the standardised...

This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of Latin America. The region’s development performance is...

Over the last five years, most Latin American governments have made considerable strides in managing the composition of their public debt, while reducing their foreign-currency exposure. Issuing public debt in local currency is not new for Latin America; what is new, however, is the widespread...

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...