Revisiting Official Development Assistance

Revisiting Official Development Assistance

Written for the ID4D blog, 22 January 2015.   Re-defining ODA should not be seen as an arcane and primarily technical subject. It addresses the fundamentals of aid effectiveness as well as the role that governments can be expected to play. In our increasingly...
Economics, Science and Development

Economics, Science and Development

Paper written as a preface for Marc Raffinot’s (2015) textbook, Economie du Développement, Paris: Dunod   Souvent, les manuels d’économie – y compris celle dite « du développement » – font la part belle aux contenus techniques, à la présentation et à...
Food price volatility

Food price volatility

Paper prepared for the book jointly edited by Rabah Aretzki, Catherine Patillo, Marc Quintyn et Min Zhu (2012), Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries, Washington D.C.: International Monetary Fund (chapter 16, pp. 315-330).  ...
Emerging countries: a “great transformation”

Emerging countries: a “great transformation”

This article, titled “Emerging countries: challenges of a great transformation”, was published in  Pouvoirs, n° 142 (Paris: septembre 2012). The 2007-2009 crisis, followed by the debt crisis of the euro zone, has amplified the already initiated shift of...
The Indian Financial System

The Indian Financial System

Introduction to the Revue d’Economie Financière issue on the Indian financial system   This paper was written with Jean-Joseph Boillot as the introduction to the Revue d’Economie Financière’s issue that we jointly coordinated on “The...