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...

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...

The present paper adds to the already large existing literature on aid distribution as it runs an equation on bilateral aid allocation on a very rich dataset, covering 20 years (1980-99), 22 donors and 137 recipients, which permits a three-dimensional panel study (recipient-year-donor) and...

In this paper, I discuss the incentives that the HIPC Initiative could create in debtor countries in favour of economic adjustment and reform. The usual debt-overhang argument, stating that debt relief will increase the net benefits of reforms, needs to be revisited in this context. First, the...

Cette communication met l'accent sur les questions de gouvernance à résoudre pour progresser dans l'objectif du développement durable n°7 sur l'accès à l'énergie. Le point de départ de l'analyse est le constat de problèmes majeurs de gouvernance dans les grands réseaux électriques des...

This paper is the first product of a project which aims to build a Collaborative Smart Mapping of Mini-grid Action (CoSMMA), whose principal objective is to identify best practice in decentralized electrification projects.By evaluation of 421 projects, from published research papers, we have...

Cet article vise à évaluer l'évaluation de la déclaration de Paris qui a été publiée en 2011 par une équipe dirigée par Bernard Wood pour le compte du Comité d'Aide au Développement de l'OCDE. Au-delà de l'importance des ressources mobilisées pour produire ce rapport, qui en font...