The aim of this paper is to analyze the respective impacts of remittances, health aid and public spending on the access to health care services in developing countries. The specific objectives are threefold. Firstly, we quantify the differential impacts of remittances on the access to public and...

In this paper, we provide a new framework to assess the validity of Zipf 's Law for cities. Zipf 's Law states that, within a country, the distribution of city sizes follows a Pareto distribution with a Pareto index equal to 1. We adopt a two-step approach where we formally test if the...

La question de l’insertion sur le marché du travail des immigrants est aujourd’hui devenue essentielle. Les dispositifs mis en place au Canada cherchent à favoriser la réarticulation entre immigration, marché du travail, protection sociale, formation et cohésion sociale. Cet article...

Depuis les travaux de Sachs et Warner (1995), la littérature de la malédiction des ressources naturelles identifie un effet négatif de la dotation naturelle sur les performances économiques des pays. Un des mécanismes mis en avant est celui de la mauvaise qualité institutionnelle, les...

The aim of this paper is to examine the main reasons how aid can contribute to poverty reduction, the channels through which it can do so and the lessons of the literature on these issues, with a special focus on the way aid can address the vulnerability faced by many developing countries.

La politique d’ouverture aux flux migratoires en provenance des pays en développement est un des éléments importants des débats relatifs à l’immigration dans les pays industrialisés. Or, il n’existe pas à l’heure actuelle d’indicateurs satisfaisant de cette politique...

This article examines the relationship between migrants' remittances and the prevalence of child labor by using a large sample of developing countries. In particular, we investigate whether the inflows of remittances help to offset the effects of financial constraints and income shocks on the...

Cet article examine l’impact des transferts des migrants sur les dépenses publiques dans les économies du monde en développement. Nous testons l’argument selon lequel, il s’opère une substitution partielle entre l’assurance publique et l’assurance privée qu’offrent les...

Preshipment inspection programs are implemented in many developing countries to fight customs corruption. They consist in delegating the inspection of imports to a private firm that operates in the exporting country. To study those PSI programs, we develop a hierarchical agency model where the...

According to the literature, the effect of remittances on income inequality in origin countries of migrants is not clear, whatever empirical approach is used. Aiming at clearing up this ambiguity, some authors took into account the historical, social or economic context of the home countries...