How to interpret green finance?

How to interpret green finance?

Article published in French in Transitions, review of the Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, no. 1, 2021. Beyond its indisputable success as a financial niche, the concept of “green finance” exhibits several inconsistencies that reflect tensions with the current...
Is Public Debt a Problem?

Is Public Debt a Problem?

This article, jointly written with François Geerolf, was published (in French) in Politique Etrangère, the quarterly review of the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI), no. 2/2021, pp. 79-92. Public debts have considerably increased almost everywhere in...
Natural Capital Accounting in Madagascar

Natural Capital Accounting in Madagascar

This paper (written jointly with Pierre Bertrand, Edmond Roger and Solofo Rakotondraompiana), “La comptabilité du capital naturel, un outil au service des ODD. Organiser localement le lien entre recherche et action”, was published in October 2017 in...
Policy Responses to Terms of Trade Shocks

Policy Responses to Terms of Trade Shocks

This article was written with Alexis Atlani and Marwan Lisser for a joint Conference of FERDI and Banque de France in Paris on January 24, 2017, on the theme of “What responses to terms of trade shocks in poor and vulnerable countries?”. Terms-of-trade...
The Governance of Public Service Delivery

The Governance of Public Service Delivery

This post was initially prepared as a preface for the book co-edited by Guillermo Perry and Ramona Angelescu Naqvi (2017), Improving Access and Quality of Public Services in Latin America. To Govern and to Serve (Palgrave MacMillan). To a casual observer of...