Nos simulations du document P25 sur l’évolution utilisées de l’inégalité mondiale de 1992 à 2030 reposent sur l’hypothèse que les distributions à l’intérieur des pays sont parfaitement stables depuis 1992. Nous avions repris pour toutes les années les distributions internes de...

The demand for accountability in “Aid-for-Trade” (AFT) is increasing but monitoring has focused on case-studies and impressionistic narratives. The paper reviews recent evidence from a wide range of studies, recognizing that a multiplicity of approaches is needed to learn what works and what...

This paper surveys the empirical literature on export and import diversification and its linkages with growth. We review widely-used measures of diversification and the evidence about their evolution focusing on how export diversification relates to trade liberalization and economic development....

International trade of cultural goods has considerably increased over the last decades and has been dominated by rich countries’s exports. Meanwhile, trade in cultural goods is considered as a potential threat to cultural diversity, and development process is sometimes interpreted as a...

This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has signicantly affected the export performance of Senegal’s horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-differences and matching difference-in-differences, to identify the effect of the...

International trade of cultural goods has considerably increased over the last decades and has been dominated by rich countries’s exports. Meanwhile, trade in cultural goods is considered as a potential threat to cultural diversity, and development process is sometimes interpreted as a...

Tous les pays n’ont pas la même capacité à utiliser efficacement l’aide pour promouvoir leur développement. Dans le contexte de diminution de l’aide au développement des années quatre-vingt-dix, il était normal que la question de l’efficacité de l’aide et partant de son...

Tous les pays n’ont pas la même capacité à utiliser efficacement l’aide pour promouvoir leur développement. Dans le contexte de diminution de l’aide au développement des années quatre-vingt-dix, il était normal que la question de l’efficacité de l’aide et partant de son...

At the Davos forum of January 2014, a group of 14 countries pledged to launch negotiations on liberalising trade in ‘green goods’ (also known as`environmental goods’(EGs)), focussing on the elimination of tariffs for an ‘APEC list’ of 54 products. The paper shows that the ‘Davos...

The last fifteen years have seen an intensive discussion on the effectiveness of aid. Part of the debate focused on the (often confusing and conflicting) evidence from growth regressions regarding the effect of aid on economic growth in recipient countries. A different discussion (probably of...