As part of the preparation for the June Summit on financing, the question was raised as to whether a category of "vulnerable countries" should not be created or recommended. One would first have to ask who would be responsible for creating this category, so that it would be authoritative. Only...

The objective of the Chair in International Architecture of Development Finance (IADF) is to "reflect independently about what the global development finance system should become in light of the current international situation and the lessons learned from the experience of the past 60 years."...

The recent Paris Summit "For a New Global Financial Pact" confirmed that international financing for development is a major concern for governments in the South and their external partners. Somewhat surprisingly, however, the issue of international financing for health remained off the agenda...

After the great crisis of 2007/2008, the tightening of rules imposed on players in the global financial system aimed to preserve financial stability as a "common good." But this desire to protect the system's integrity was not to be achieved at the expense of greater financial inclusion, so...

L’agriculture en Afrique subsaharienne (ASS) souffre d’un double déficit. D’une part un déficit de production non-seulement céréalier, mais aussi dans la transformation agricole vers des cultures à haute valeur ajoutée. Ce déficit de production est marqué par un retard croissant de...

Le besoin d’établir des profils de vulnérabilité par pays est intimement lié à la difficulté de saisir dans un indice unique, quelle que soit sa complexité, la diversité des types de vulnérabilité que les pays en voie de développement peuvent connaître. L’indice multidimensionnel...

The objective of the Chair in International Architecture of Development Finance (IADF) is to "reflect independently about what the global development finance system should become in light of the current international situation and the lessons learned from the experience of the past 60 years."...

A joint study by the WTO and IFC established that the low share of trade supported by trade finance (25%) in the four largest economies of West Africa (Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal) was a major constraint in further expanding and diversifying trade flows and trade integration.**...

Private financial flows to Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) today are lower than in 2015, when both the UN's Addis Ababa Agenda for Action and the Paris Agreement were adopted - committing the world to financing the SDGs and reducing carbon emissions. Were the expectations...