L'Ukraine et la Biélorussie ont été touchées par la crise financière internationale depuis l'automne 2008. Ces deux économies en transition sont relativement proches en termes de structure productive, mais l'Ukraine est plus ouverte financièrement. Une première analyse suggère pourtant...

Following a series of debt cancellations, the public debt of many developing countries has reached low levels. These countries are being urged to extent public spending to reach The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but can not exclusively rely on external financing. Consequently, is an...

Developing countries are being urged to extent public spending to reach The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Following a series of debt cancellations, the public debt of many developing countries has reached low levels, so that external borrowing is a plausible option. However, developing...

L'objectif de l'étude est d'analyser la relation entre l'aide au développement et le prélèvement public. Il s'agit de d'évaluer si l'aide incite les pays receveurs à réduire leur taux de prélèvement, autrement dit s'il existe en effet d'éviction des recettes publiques par l'aide...

This paper establishes a link between deforestation and credit cycles in Latin American countries. The latter exhibit rapid deforestation rates as well as macroeconomic instability that is often rooted in credit booms and crunches episodes: data available on the last years show a coincidence...

To what extent differences across developing countries in their domestic tax mobilization can be explained, in addition to the traditional determinants, by political economy factors and particularly by the political regime? Using a panel of 78 developing countries over the period 1990-2005, this...