For several years, the conditionality underpinning budgetary support to developing countries has been the object of severe criticism. This criticism has led to the belief that the “ownership of policies” by the recipient country governments is essential for the effective implementation of...

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...

Ethical foundations of the development aid of France may be found in General de Gaulle’s speeches and in Paul VI’s encyclical Popularum Progressio, the roots of which are the New Testament. This article aims at reconciling ethic with aid effectiveness as it is defined by economics. It...

This paper questions the line of reasoning followed by several authors, notably Easterly and Levine (1997), according to which ethno-linguistic fragmentation, mainly because it leads to poor policies, is an handicap to growth. A first set of criticisms concerns the model itself: (i) polarization...

This paper aims to assess the role of instabilities on Africa low rates of growth during the seventies and eighties, using cross-section econometric estimates, on a sample of African and non African countries and two pooled decades. Africa exhibits higher "primary" instabilities (climatic, terms...

Most developing and transition countries have adopted a mixed strategy in the management of their exchange rate. This article provides an indicator that measures the trade-off between nominal anchor and real target strategies. The relevance of the indicator is assessed for the cases of Poland...

The LDCs (Least Developed Countries), 49 among 130 developing countries, are the alone category, which is officially recognized by the United Nations. They benefit by a preferential treatment from the international community, because, not only they have a low income per capita, but also their...

This paper presents a monetary exchange rate model with imperfect capital mobility, slow adjustment of goods prices in the short-term and currency substitution. As in Dornbusch’s model (1976), it is demonstrated that an exogenous monetary shock can lead to an initial overshooting of the...

Based on an annual sample of 122 countries over the 1963-1994 period, this paper shows that real exchange rate depreciation reduces deforestation in relatively developed countries (with GDP per capita greater than $900) whereas it has the opposite effect in poor countries. A possible explanation...