A dominant trend in the literature maintains that donor assistance should be targeted to poor countries with sound institutions and policies. In this context, donor selectivity refers to what extent aid is allocated according to the principles of this "canonical" model. This paper shows that it...

L’émigration de travailleurs issus des pays en développement vers ceux dits développés est relativement plus qualifiée que la moyenne mondiale des travailleurs. Ceci engendre pour certains de ces PED une perte directe en capital humain non-négligeable. Une vision "optimiste"...

This paper aims at analyzing the role of the real exchange rate in the transmission of world price instability to producers of agricultural commodity-exporting developing countries. The analysis relates to a sample of 51 developing countries over the 1968-2002 period. In those countries whose...

Paradoxically, cotton price stabilization policies in Zone Franc Africa are questioned while their potential benefits seem more important today than at the time of their implementation. Producers face an increasing price volatility and the conditions of implementation of real insurance...

This paper considers how specific the Chinese growth experience is in the convergence debate. It shows the location of China within the cross-country relations of (absolute and conditional) convergence and its move since the transition period. Then it evidences a cross-province relation of...

Since the implementation of the economic reforms in 1978, there is a remarkable diversification trend in rural China characterized by an impressive development of rural enterprises. The main objective of this paper is to understand the forces driving this agro-industrial diversification which...

P. Guillaumont et S. Guillaumont Jeanneney reviennent ici sur la politique de change du Vietnam à la lumière de la crise asiatique et des expériences monétaires des pays de la région. Ils en déduisent que la politique d'ancrage du dông au dollar et de flottement contrôlé menée par le...

This paper tries to take into account two points of view of the litterature, the first one shows that financial development has positive effect on economic growth, and the second one stresses on the unfavourable effect of financial crisis. Our main assumption is that financial instability is...

On propose un modèle théorique simple dans lequel l'activité de rébellion de l'opposition est une fonction croissante des activités de prédation et de répression du gouvernement, et une fonction décroissante de ses activités de redistribution. Ces prédictions sont testées sur des...

This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into growth and inequality effects. After a complete and critical review of the invariance axioms suggested in the literature, we show that few information is needed for the ordering of...