This paper provides a theoretical and empirical overview of the relationships among trade, aid and FDI, both in terms of policy interactions and interactions among resource flows. Aid flows from one country to another can have positive or negative effects on trade flows between those countries....

[eng] The Welfare State is generally thought to transfer resources from young and future generations to old ones. This opinion, however, is based on a narrow view of the transfer system that focuses on pensions and elderly-care programs. Our paper shows that taking downward educational transfers...

Egypt needs to diversify exports further in order to emerge from its isolation and to draw the maximum advantage from the growth potential offered by trade globalisation. To what extent does the bilateral free trade agreement with the European Union encourage the transition from a rentier...

[ger] Die rasante Zunahme der Ungleichheiten, die in den meisten Industrieländern seit 25 Jahren zu beobachten ist, muss in einem längerfristigen Kontext gesehen wird. In Frankreich ist das Lohngefälle im 20. Jahrhundert insgesamt stabil geblieben, während die Vermögensungleichheiten...

We investigate how rising sanitary risk of agri-food products affects the geographical concentration of European Union (EU) imports at the product level. We first estimate a product-specific measure of sanitary risk based on the count of food alerts at EU borders. Then we regress the evolution...