The recognition of climate change as a dominant issue for the global economy and policy has led to a search for resources for financing mitigation and adaptation. While raising funds for mitigation and for adaptation meet similar problems, their allocation between countries cannot be ruled by...

The Summit's focus on financing vulnerable countries or the fight against vulnerability highlights the fact that the allocation of concessional financing between countries must be considered alongside the mobilization of new resources. This note identifies four principles: (i) the countries...

Monitoring of structural change in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) requires examination of the changes in their structural economic vulnerability. This cannot be done by comparing the level of the Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) that is calculated for each triennial review of the list of...

This paper proposes a model of aid allocation which aims to equalize the opportunity between recipient countries to reduce the poverty. The model takes into account the natural growth deviation which is defined by the gap between the growth rate required to reach a development goal and the...

Le fléchage du Sommet sur le financement des pays vulnérables ou de la lutte contre la vulnérabilité met en lumière le fait que l'allocation entre pays de financements concessionnels doit être examinée en même temps que la mobilisation de nouvelles ressources. La présente note dégage...

The climate change issue is briefly considered in the chapter 4 "Priority areas for actions", section F «Multiple crises and other emerging challenges» of the Istanbul Declaration. In this section, climate change is examined with environmental sustainability and besides economic shocks and...

Introduction: focus of the paperFollowing the adoption of the MDG, particularly the first one that is to reduce poverty by half between 1995 and 2015, numerous studies have examined how external aid can contribute to their achievement. The formula "doubling aid to reduce the poverty by half"...

Introduction : The challenge of structural economic vulnerability for African developmentIn 2006, at a time when growth had clearly resumed in Africa, the opening speech at the first African Economic Conference organized by the African Development Bank and AERC was entitled "Economic...

Alors qu'en Afrique la plupart des États ont leur propre monnaie, quatorze se partagent entre deux Unions monétaires, l'Union monétaire ouest-africaine d'une part et l'Union monétaire de l'Afrique centrale d'autre part. La Common Monetary Area, qui réunit l'Afrique du Sud, le Lesotho, la...