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Recent papers

How to finance climate?

How to finance climate?

This paper was written with Anton Brender as a chapter for the book edited by Jacques Mistral (2015), Le climat va-t-il changer le capitalisme. La grande mutation du XXIème siècle, Eyrolles, pp. 119-132 (“Will climate change capitalism? The great mutation of the 21st century”). Funding volume is important. Yet, in terms both of amounts and financial instruments, finance is globally available. However, its mobilisation faces several hurdles: establish the fight against global warming as a clear policy priority; identify productive investments – financially, economically or socially; and design public intervention as a catalyst to orient savings towards better uses than do unfettered financial markets

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Financial Innovation for Global Solidarity

Financial Innovation for Global Solidarity

Chapter written with Varad Pande for the collective book edited by Mathieu Boussichas et Patrick Guillaumont (2015), Financing Sustainable Development: Addressing Vulnerabilities" (Paris, Economica, chapitre 26). This chapter develops three main idea. First, we argue...

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Economics, Science and Development

Economics, Science and Development

This paper was written (in French) for a preface for Marc Raffinot’s (2015) textbook, Economie du Développement, Paris: Dunod. It emphasizes the multidimensional content of development, which calls for a multidisciplinary approach. It questions the tendency to see the World in deterministic terms and highly specific contexts and prescribe a-contextual politics to developing countries’ governments. It also questions the tendency to assign to science the role of shaping and recommending solutions, instead of documenting in a rigorous way the information set from which governments will take decisions.

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Recent Columns

Addressing Sustainable Development Challenges

Addressing Sustainable Development Challenges

Interview for Terragreen Online Magazine, July 2010.
Over the past decades, sustainable development challenges have loomed larger and larger on policy-makers’ agenda worldwide. In particular, the recent crises (food, fuel, finances, and so on) have exposed many symptoms of unsustainable development such as poor people’s vulnerabilities, an unsolved energy supply equation, and the gap between the dynamics of unfettered finance and the requirements of a stable economy. Yet, in spite of a rising consciousness about the urgency of such challenges, actual action has usually been perceived as being slow to materialize. This raises the crucial question of how individual and collective actions can emerge in a globalized world, and of how to move from a comfortable position of prescription (“we must do so and so”) to a more courageous and riskier course of implementation.

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