This paper analyses the relation between transfers, migration and income levels. While European countries have been very generous by opening their frontiers to trade, investing in transition countries, and accepting as EU new members some of the latter, their migration policies were less...

This paper explores the policy relevance of the under-development trap hypothesis, which postulates that poor countries are locked in a low equilibrium and that big push policies, involving a large amount of external assistance, would be necessary to lift them out of poverty. It shows that...

This paper explores the policy relevance of the underdevelopment trap hypothesis, which postulates that poor countries are locked in a low equilibrium and that big push policies, involving large amounts of external assistance, would be necessary to lift them out of poverty. It shows that...

I examine in detail the motives of bilateral aid allocation decisions, as they are revealed by data on bilateral aid commitments. I identify both self-interest and recipient needs and merits motives in aid allocation. Self-interest motives are related to economic and political ties between...

This paper discusses the distributional consequences of education policies in developing countries, with a specific emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. We show that human capital is particularly unequally distributed in sub-Saharan African countries and in Middle-East and North Africa and South...

I provide an overall empirical assessment of the motivations of ODA granted by rich countries to developing countries, as revealed by aid allocation behaviors. Aid motives combine self-interested and altruistic objectives. I use a three-dimensional panel dataset, combining the donor, recipient...

This paper examines past African growth experience and attempts to simulate future ones. In addition to more commonly used determinants of total factor productivity, a measure of the effect of labor reallocation and an index of economic diversification are constructed and included as factors for...

In this paper, I provide an overall empirical assessment of the motivations of official development assistance granted by rich countries to developing countries, as they are revealed by their aid allocation behaviours. Such behaviours result from a combination of self-interest purposes and of...

Malaria still claims a heavy human and economic toll, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa. Even though the causality between malaria and poverty is presumably bi-directional, malaria plays a role in the economic difficulties of the region. This article provides an analysis of the economic...

Summary This paper investigates the impact of aid on migration and identifies two channels. Bilateral aid influences migration by enhancing the information about labor market conditions in the destination country (attraction effect). Total aid correlates with migration through increasing...