L'aide au commerce, présentée comme un nouvel outil de développement prometteur, vise à soutenir l'intégration commerciale des pays en développement. Il manque néanmoins à cette aide, pour asseoir son efficacité et respecter les engagements politiques des donateurs, une dimension...

A successful economic transition involves a continuous flow of resources from agriculture to industry. This resource transfer depends on structural factors affecting demand, marginal labour productivities, technical progress, sectoral factor endowments and public economic policies. Agricultural...

[eng] Pierre Berthelier, Anna Lipchitz — What role does the agricultural sector play in growth and development ? A successful economic transition involves a continuous flow of resources from agriculture to industry. This resource transfer depends on structural factors affecting demand,...

La globalisation est-elle un atout ou une entrave à la croissance économique des pays en développement ? L'ouverture de ces pays au commerce international accélère-t-elle leur développement ou fragilise-t-elle leur économie dans le contexte du grand chambardement en cours à l'échelle de...

This article focuses on the comparison of sacrifice ratios as an indicator for structural dispersion within the euro area over the period 1972-2003. Estimates of the sacrifice ratio, defined as the cumulative output cost arising from permanent inflation reduction, are obtained using structural...

This article assesses the impact of the RMB-dollar exchange rate and volatility on U.S. agricultural exports to and imports from China. Two measures of volatility are employed: one based on the moving standard deviation of the real RMB-dollar rate, the other a GARCH-based measure which yields...

This study extends Bayoumi and Eichengreen's (1993) empirical methodology in order to give a reappraisal of the core-periphery view of the enlarged euro area. We show how to derive two useful indices from the "correlation box" formed by aggregate demand and supply shocks. One measures the...

Reviewing the existing literature on openness and growth shows that there is not a clear definition of trade openness. For many authors trade openness implicitly refers to trade policy orientation and what they are interested in is to assess the impact of trade policy or trade liberalization on...

L’épisode de hausse de prix des produits agricoles sur la période 2006-2008 a remis au cÅ“ur des préoccupations internationales la question de la sécurité alimentaire mondiale. Dans ce contexte, les Pays les Moins Avancés sont passés, depuis le début des années 1990, d’une...

This article focuses on the comparison of sacrifice ratios as an indicator for structural dispersion within the euro area over the period 1972-2003. Estimates of the sacrifice ratio, defined as the cumulative output cost arising from permanent inflation reduction, are obtained using structural...