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Recent papers

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...

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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...

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Recent Columns

Rethink Aid for Africa’s Development

Rethink Aid for Africa’s Development

Column published in French in the French Newspaper Les Échos, 24 February 2021, under the title "Repenser l'aide au développement de l'Afrique". Le 22 février 2021 se tenait à Paris le 20ème Forum international économique sur l’Afrique conjointement organisé par...

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Economy without a Compas

Economy without a Compas

Pre-publication version (in French) of a column published in the Newspaper “Les Echos” on October 3, 2018, under the title “L’économie mondiale doit retrouver sa boussole” (The World Economy Must Find its Compass Again). The most important challenge today is not about conjoncture or threats to the short-term growth outlook. It is, rather, the structural weakening of the multilateral order that had underpinned international economic relations for the last half-century. The relevant slogan today is “it’s politics, stupid”. More than ever, “high politics” is needed to support and advance the values of endangered enlightenment. 

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