Dix économistes français démontrent que la puissance économique américaine, basée sur sa supériorité technologique, une recherche de qualité, une réactivité et un optimisme sans faille n'est pourtant pas à l'abri de ses paradoxes. Son endettement, son déficit, ses scandales...

The international financial crisis is likely to produce very different impacts on the various African countries, depending on their degree of openness to commercial and financial flows. The volume of foreign flows is a matter of concern given that exports, loans, public grants and remittances...

The balance of global power is undergoing a tectonic shift, with “developing” countries such as India, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, and South Africa now asserting their influence. These countries subtly redefine our notion of “strong” and “weak” economics and the relationship...

The idea of a world economic system based on the Centre-Periphery analysis cannot provide a satisfactory overall explanation of some developing countries real situation. New terms have appeared recently, such as “advanced developing countries” or “new industrial countries”. In fact these...

Le rapport du Conseil économique pour le développement durable étudie la question du financement des projets d'investissements s'inscrivant dans la perspective de la « croissance verte ». Rappelant le contexte de dégradation des finances publiques, il analyse, à travers les différentes...

In this paper we use a simple standard overlapping generations model to assess the impact of foreign aid. Donors are not able to modify the sharing out of aid between old and young in the recipient economy. This assumption is in line with the deference to the elders, which characterises the...