After two debt relief initiatives launched in 1996 (the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, HIPC Initiative) and in 1999 (The enhanced HIPC initiative), the G7 decided to go further by cancelling the remaining multilateral debt for these HIPC countries through the Multilateral Debt Relief...

Ce chapitre vise à présenter l’initiative PPTE originale et renforcée (ainsi que les initiatives annexes qui se sont greffées dessus), de manière à analyser la manière dont les modalités retenues induisent aujourd’hui l’élaboration des programmes de réduction de la pauvreté et...

Turkey featured a somewhat paradoxical evolution in income distribution between 1994 and 2005. During 1994-2002 (marked by the 2000-2001 financial crisis), growth was pro-poor in the sense that the income of the poor decreased less than the income of the well-off. Between 2002 and 2005, the...

The ownership of the development policies is the very basis of the new international consensus formulated in the Paris Declaration (2005). The theoretical foundations of this approach remain somehow unclear, and we can hardly consider that PRSPs are really “owned” by the recipient...

The effect of debt on private investment is theoretically undetermined. Indeed, according to the theory, the relation between debt and private investment can either be negative (debt overhang) or positive (accelerator effect on economic growth, hence on private investment). Our study consists in...

The ownership of the development policies is the very basis of the new international consensus formulated in the Paris Declaration (2005). The theoretical foundations of this approach remain somehow unclear. The main problem is that the Bretton Woods institutions “assess” the Poverty...

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...

L’objectif de l’initiative de réduction de la dette des pays pauvres très endettés est de rendre soutenable la dette de ces pays. Or la plupart des analyses concordent pour affirmer que la dette des PPTE risque fort de demeurer insoutenable après la remise de dette – du moins si les...