This article analyses the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain (MBD) on child mortality using panel and cross-country quintile-level data on respectively 84 and 46 developing countries. Our results show that remittances reduce child mortality while MBD increases it....

The objective of this study is to provide a long-term perspective for the ongoing policy dialogue on the management of labor migration in Europe and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. It is organized as follows. Chapter one puts the report and migration in the context of the...

This paper analyses the impact of a microfinance institution (MFI) serving small informal enterprises in Antananarivo (Madagascar). The methodology consists of comparing over time the situation of a representative sample of clients' enterprises with a control group, constructed in an almost...

This paper analyzes the preconditions for sustained policy turnarounds in failing states. Our dependent variable is the probability of the commencement of a turnaround that eventually becomes both sustained and substantial. We focus upon the explanatory variables of resource rents, education,...

[eng] In this paper, we compare effective aid allocation with two normative allocations aimed at optimally reducing poverty : one based on efficiency and selectivity (Collier and Dollar, 2001) and another based on equality of opportunity (Cogneau and Naudet, 2007). Over the 1996-2004 period,...

This paper explores the link between return migration and political outcomes in the origin country, using the case study of Mali. We use electoral and census data at the locality level to investigate the role of return migration on participation rates and electoral competitiveness. First, we run...

This paper reviews the policy implications of research on reform in failing states ( <link rid="b1">Chauvet and Collier 2006</link>, <link rid="b2 b3">2007a, 2007b</link>, <link rid="b4">2008</link>; <link rid="b5">Chauvet et al. 2006</link>; <link rid="b6">Chauvet et al. 2007a</link>, <link rid="b7">2007b</link>). After providing a precise definition of state failure and reform in such states, we present the internal...