If the debate relative to claim indexation is old, it seems that the financial and economic present crisis should have given a new topicality to this question. However the huge literature focused on the causes and responses to the crisis does not even mention the question of indexation. The...

State fragility is a concept that emerged among the international community of donors in order to adapt aid policies to particularly difficult situations. Fragility has thus been measured to design a special treatment in favour of fragile states, otherwise left behind. In this context, but...

Résumé : Cet article tente de concilier deux courants de la littérature, l’un qui montre l’effet favorable du développement financier sur la croissance économique, l’autre l’effet défavorable des crises financières. L’hypothèse centrale est que l’instabilité du...

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...

Currency substitution - the use of foreign money to finance transactions between domestic residents - is widespread in low income and transition economies. Traditionally, however, empirical models of the demand for money tend to concentrate on the portfolio motive for holding foreign currency,...

This article investigates how financial development is beneficial to the reduction of poverty, on the one hand by promoting growth and in the other hand directly by the McKinnon conduit effect. At the same time, however, financial instability which accompanies financial development is...

In this paper we consider the link often alleged between ethnic diversity and the growth rate of GDP per capita. We first assume that it is ethnic polarization rather than ethnic fragmentation that is harmful for growth so that the relationship may be nonlinear. Second, we hypothesize that the...

This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through a distributional effect, beyond its indirect effect through economic growth. The results obtained with data for a sample of developing countries from 1966 through 2000 suggest that the poor benefit from...

La Banque Africaine de développement répartit son aide au développement entre pays selon une formule qui repose principalement sur la qualité de la politique économique et de la gouvernance des pays bénéficiaires. L’objet de ce rapport est d’examiner comment faire évoluer la formule...

[fre] Politique économique et perspectives de croissance dans les économies émergentes d'Afrique. . Nous évaluons le potentiel de croissance des économies d'Afrique à l'horizon de 2010. L'analyse s'appuie sur l'estimation d'un modèle de croissance en données de panel, pour 39 économies...