RESEARCH

Work in Progress 

Are Remittances More Effective Than Aid To Improve Child Health? An Empirical Assessment using Inter and Intra-Country Data (with Flore Gubert and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps), 2008. Draft.

 

What Explains Aid Projects Success in Post-Conflict Situations? (with Paul Collier and Marguerite Duponchel), 2008.

 

Supervision and Project performance: a principal-agent approach (with Paul Collier and Andreas Fuster), 2006. Draft.

 

Can Foreign Aid Cushion External Political Shocks?, 2006. Draft.

Journal Articles

Paradise lost. The cost of state failure in the Pacific (with Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler), forthcoming in Journal of Development Studies. Also WIDER Research Paper 2007/16.

 

Elections and economic policy in developing countries (with Paul Collier), Economic Policy 24(59), June 2009. Earlier Draft. Also DIAL Working Paper 2008/11.

 

Aid, volatility and growth again. When aid volatility matters and when it does not (with Patrick Guillaumont), Review of Development Economics 13(3), 2009. Draft.

 

 What are the preconditions for turnarounds in failing states (with Paul Collier), Conflict Management and Peace Science 25(4), p. 332 - 348, 2008. Draft.

 

Aid and reform in failing states (with Paul Collier), Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 22(1), May 2008.

Socio-political Instabilities and the Allocation of International Aid by Donors, European Journal of Political Economy 19(1), p. 33-59, March 2003.

Aid and Performances: A Reassessment (with Patrick Guillaumont), Journal of Development Studies 37(6), p. 66-92, August 2001.

In French Journals

Sélectivité et égalité des chances dans l'allocation de l'aide. Une analyse de la dernière décennie (with Denis Cogneau and Jean-David Naudet), Economie et Prévision 186, p.23-38, 2008.

 

L'aide publique au développement et les investissements directs étrangers en Afrique sont-ils complémentaires ? (with Sandrine Mesplé-Somps), Revue Tiers-Monde 192, p. 815, October-December 2007.

 

L'impact des financements internationaux sur les inégalités des pays en développement”, with Sanrdine Mesplé-Somps, Revue Economique 58(3), p.735, May 2007. Also DIAL Working Paper.

Allocation de l'aide et instabilités socio-politiques”, Revue Economique 53(3), p. 545-556, May 2002.

Book Chapters

The Security Challenge in Conflict-Prone Countries (with Paul Collier and Haavard Hegre), in B. Lomborg (ed) ’Global Crisis, Global Solutions’, Cambridge University Press, 2009. Also Copenhagen Consensus 2008 Challenge Paper.

 

L’aide aux Etats fragiles: quand et comment? (with Paul Collier), in J-M. Chataigner and H. Magro (eds), Etats et sociétés fragiles, Karthala, Paris, 2007.

What Constrains Turnarounds in Fragile States? (with Paul Collier), in F. Schuppert (ed) Staatszerfall und Governance.  No. 7 of the series "Schriften zur Governance-Forschung", Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2006.

Atténuer la vulnérabilité aux chocs de prix : un rôle pour l’aide internationale (with Patrick Guillaumont, Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney, Pierre Jacquet and Bertrand Savoye), in F. Bourguignon and P. Jacquet (eds). Economic Integration and Social Responsibility, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Aid and Growth Revisited : Policy, Economic Vulnerability and Political Instability (with Patrick Guillaumont), in B. Tungodden, N. Stern, I. Kolstad (eds). Towards Pro-Poor Policies - Aid, Institutions and Globalization. World Bank/Oxford University Press. April 2004.

Aid and Performance : A Reassessment (with Patrick Guillaumont), in N. Hermes et R. Lensink (eds.). Changing the Conditions for Development Aid : A New Paradigm ?, Frank Cass, 2001, p. 66-92.

Working Papers
 

Elections and economic policy in developing countries (with Paul Collier), 2008. DIAL Working Paper 2008/11. Also published in Economic Policy.

 

The Security Challenge in Conflict-Prone Countries (with Paul Collier and Haavard Hegre), 2008, Copenhagen Consensus 2008 Challenge Paper.

 

The cost of failing states and the limits to sovereignty (with Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler), 2007, WIDER Research Paper n°2007/30.

 

Paradise lost. The cost of state failure in the Pacific (with Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler), 2007, WIDER Research Paper 2007/16.

Helping hand? Aid to failing states (with Paul Collier), 2006, DIAL Working Paper 2006/14.

Impacts des financements internationaux sur les inégalités des pays en développement (with Sandrine Mesplé-Somps), 2006, DIAL Working Paper 2006/18. Also published in Revue Economique 58(3).

Other Publications

Débats sur l'efficacité de l'aide: fondements et nouveaux enjeux (with Jacky Amprou), Notes et Documents n°37, Agence Française de Développement, Paris, 2007.

L’aide publique au développement: Fondements et efficacité, in Universalia 2006, Encyclopaedia Universalis, Paris, 2006.

Aide publique au développement et lutte contre la pauvreté : Vers une allocation optimale ? (with Jacky Amrpou), in Mérieux (ed). Rapport moral sur l’argent dans le monde, Paris, 2006.  

 

Efficacité et allocation de l’aide, revue des débats (with Jacky Amprou), Notes et Documents n°6, Agence Française de Développement, Paris, 2004.