Les Investissements Directs à l’Etranger (IDE) peuvent être des outils précieux de développement. Cependant, toutes les formes d’IDE ne sont pas également bénéfiques pour le pays d’accueil. Cet article analyse les caractéristiques et déterminants des IDE dans un pays en voie de...

We account for competition for export markets among donor countries of foreign aid by analyzing spatial dependence in aid allocation. Employing sector-specific aid data, we find that the five largest donors react to aid giving by other donors with whom they compete in terms of exporting goods...

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The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...

An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result, aid should be expected to affect fiscal behaviour, although theory and existing evidence is ambiguous regarding the nature of these effects. This paper applies techniques developed in the...

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