Le 2 août 2021 le Fonds Monétaire International (FMI) a approuvé une nouvelle allocation de droits de tirage spéciaux (433 milliards de DTS soit 650 milliards de dollars) afin de faire face aux besoins de balance des paiements nés de la crise du COVID, avec prise d'effet le 23 août. Ce...

This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit effect and indirectly through economic growth. The results obtained with data for a sample of developing countries from 1966 through 2000 suggest that the poor benefit from the...

The objectives of international development cooperation have undergone profound changes in recent decades. To the traditional goals constituted by the fight against poverty and the development of less developed countries the promotion of global public goods has been added. It is in terms of all...

Le Conseil d'administration du FMI a approuvé le 22 juillet 2021, une réforme de ses modalités de soutien aux pays à faible revenu (PFR). Cette réforme constitue une étape supplémentaire dans l'évolution de l'action du FMI dans ces pays, caractérisée par deux objectifs principaux. Le...

Global trade has been exceptionally weak over the past four years. While global trade grew at approximately twice the rate of GDP prior to the Great Recession, the ratio of global trade to GDP growth has declined to about unity since 2012. This paper assesses to what extent the change in the...

Climate change has both immediate and long-term consequences on the debt trajectories of developing countries. Their high physical vulnerability to global warming and the increase in natural disasters, combined with lower socio-economic resilience (food and agricultural insecurity, high...

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."...

Global trade has been exceptionally weak over the past four years. While global trade grew at approximately twice the rate of GDP prior to the Great Recession, the ratio of global trade to GDP growth has declined to about unity since 2012. This paper assesses to what extent the change in the...