We build a micro-simulation model able to simulate over a 15 years' period the impact of AIDS on the distribution of income in Cocirc;te d'Ivoire. We focus on the labour supply effects of AIDS-induced mortality. We find that although the size of the economy in terms of total household income is...

Foreign aid flows disproportionately to the poorest among the developing countries. Countries that account for the poorest fifth of world’s population receive more than a fifth of aid spending from OECD countries. Similarly, the benefits of trade flow likewise to more prosperous countries: the...

This paper studies interactions between aid and three other major North-South flows : international trade, FDI and migrations. It mainly focuses on the question of whether aid is allocated to countries that are benefiting from the other flows considered here or the reverse. It appears that aid...

L’aide étrangère afflue de manière disproportionnée vers les pays en développement les plus pauvres : en effet, les pays qui représentent un cinquième de la population mondiale la plus démunie reçoivent plus d’un cinquième de l’aide provenant des pays de l’OCDE.