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I examine in detail the motives of bilateral aid allocation decisions, as they are revealed by data on bilateral aid commitments. I identify both self-interest and recipient needs and merits motives in aid allocation. Self-interest motives are related to economic and political ties between...
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This paper discusses the distributive nature of education policies in developing countries, with a specific emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. We show that human capital is particularly unequally distributed in sub-Saharan African countries and in Middle-East and North Africa and South Asian...
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This paper examines past African growth experience and attempts to simulate future ones. In addition to more commonly used determinants of total factor productivity, a measure of the effect of labor reallocation and an index of economic diversification are constructed and included as factors for...
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Cette communication met l'accent sur les questions de gouvernance à résoudre pour progresser dans l'objectif du développement durable n°7 sur l'accès à l'énergie. Le point de départ de l'analyse est le constat de problèmes majeurs de gouvernance dans les grands réseaux électriques des...
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This paper is the first product of a project which aims to build a Collaborative Smart Mapping of Mini-grid Action (CoSMMA), whose principal objective is to identify best practice in decentralized electrification projects.By evaluation of 421 projects, from published research papers, we have...
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Cet article vise à évaluer l'évaluation de la déclaration de Paris qui a été publiée en 2011 par une équipe dirigée par Bernard Wood pour le compte du Comité d'Aide au Développement de l'OCDE. Au-delà de l'importance des ressources mobilisées pour produire ce rapport, qui en font...
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L'UEMOA se trouve aujourd'hui face à un objectif ambitieux qui est l'accès universel à l'électricité d'ici 2030, objectif d'autant plus ambitieux étant donné la part importante représentée par la population rurale au sein de l'UEMOA. Cependant les récentes évolutions technologiques...
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We propose a simple theoretical dual economy model to study the dynamics of an economy in which individuals move out of a poverty trap. These dynamics are characterized by growth acceleration. This model implies that poverty reduction could, under some circumstances, cause growth, rather than...
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