Research
Work in Progress
Firms’ resilience and political cycles in pandemic time (with Esther Delesalle and Mohamed Ali Marouani)
Foreign Aid and Power Play Political Cycle in World Bank’s Procurement Allocation (with Antoine Boucher and Marin Ferry)
After D-day? Destruction, Catch up, and Leapfrog (with Abel François and Jean Lacroix)
Giving Birth in Times of Austerity: Fiscal Consolidation and Infant Mortality in Sub-Sharan Africa (with Hélène Ehrhart and Marin Ferry).
Inequality in Public Good Provision and Attitude Toward Taxation: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa (with Siyavash Eslami, Marin Ferry and Laure Pasquier-Doumer).
Selected publications in refereed journals
The Great Lockdown and the Small Business: Impact, channels and adaptation to the Covid pandemic (with Minh-Phuong Le and Mohamed Ali Marouani) World Development, 182, 2024.
Taxation, infrastructure, and firm performance in developing countries (with Marin Ferry), Public Choice 187(3), 455-481, 2021.
Economic volatility and inequality: Do aid and remittances matter? (with Marin Ferry, Patrick Guillaumont, Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sampawende J.-A. Tapsoba, Laurent Wagner), The Review of World Economics 155(1), 71-104, 2019.
Aid and growth: Evidence using firm-level data (with Hélène Ehrhart), Journal of Development Economics 135, 461-477, 2018. Replication files. Supplementary Appendix.
Financial inclusion, bank concentration, and firm performance (with Luc Jacolin), World Development 97, 1-13, 2017.
Migrants' hometown associations and local development in Mali (with Flore Gubert, Marion Mercier and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 117(2), 686-722, 2015.
Do return migrants transfer political norms to their origin country? Evidence from Mali (with Marion Mercier), Journal of Comparative Economics 42, 630-651, 2014.
Aid, remittances, medical brain drain and child mortality: Evidence using inter and intra-country data (with Flore Gubert and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps), Journal of Development Studies 48(12), 801-818, 2013.
Elections and economic policy in developing countries (with Paul Collier), Economic Policy 24(59), 509-550, 2009. Vox column.
Socio-political Instabilities and the allocation of international aid by donors, European Journal of Political Economy 19(1), 33-59, 2003.
Book and Handbook
Les migrants, acteurs des changements politiques en Afrique? (edited with Flore Gubert, Thibaut Jaulin and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps), 2018. DeBoeck Supérieur.
On the Heterogenous Impact of Aid on Growth. A Review of the Evidence. In Handbook on the economics of foreign aid (Edited by B.M. Arvin and B. Lew), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
Other publications in refereed journals
Third DIAL Conference on barriers to development. Introduction to the special section (with Emmanuelle Lavallée, Sandrine Mesplé-Somps, and Camille Saint-Macary), Journal of Development Studies 55(5), 859-860, 2019.
Do migrants adopt new political attitudes from abroad? Evidence using a multi-sited exit-poll survey during the 2013 Malian elections. (with Flore Gubert and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps), Comparative Migration Studies 4(19), 1-31, 2016.
Les "Batailles" de Paris et de New York. Une analyse du comportement électoral transnational des migrants sénégalais en France et aux Etats-Unis (with J-P. Dedieu (first author), F. Gubert, S. Mesplé-Somps and E. Smith), Revue Française de Sciences Politiques 63(5), 865-892, 2013. English version.
Paradise lost. The cost of state failure in the Pacific (with Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler), Journal of Development Studies 46(5), 961-980, 2010.
Les transferts monétaires des migrants sont-ils plus efficaces que l’aide publique pour améliorer la santé des enfants ? Une évaluation empirique sur des données inter et intra-pays (with S. Mesplé-Somps and F. Gubert), Revue d'Economie du Développement 4, 41-80, 2009.
Aid, volatility and growth again. When aid volatility matters and when it does not (with Patrick Guillaumont), Review of Development Economics 13(3), 452-463, 2009.
What are the preconditions for turnarounds in failing states (with Paul Collier), Conflict Management and Peace Science 25(4), 332-348, 2008.
Aid and reform in failing states (with Paul Collier), Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 22(1), 15-24, 2008.
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, 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, 815-831, 2007.
L'impact des financements internationaux sur les inégalités des pays en développement, with Sandrine Mesplé-Somps, Revue Economique 58(3), 735-744, 2007.
Allocation de l'aide et instabilités socio-politiques, Revue Economique 53(3), 545-556, 2002.
Aid and performances: A reassessment (with Patrick Guillaumont (first author)), Journal of Development Studies 37(6), 66-92, 2001.
Chapters in Books
Global aid flows to the least developed countries: What effectiveness of the aid target? (with Patrick Guillaumont), in P. Guillaumont (ed), Out of the Trap. Supporting the least developed countries, Economica and FERDI, 2019.
Transferts migratoires et démocratisation (with Flore Gubert and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps), in P. Gonin, N. Kotlok and M-A. Pérouse de Montclos (eds), La Tragédie Malienne, Edition Vendémiaire, Paris, 2013.
The Cost of Failing States and the Limits to Sovereignty (with Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler) in W. Naudé, A. U. Santos-Paulino, and M. McGillivray (eds), Fragile States. Causes, Cost, and Responses, Oxofrd University Press, 2011. Also WIDER Research Paper n°2007/30.
The Security Challenge in Conflict-Prone Countries (with Paul Collier (first auhtor) 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
L’efficacité de l’aide : quelles évolutions de la littérature depuis deux décennies ? (with Marin Ferry), 2023. FERDI Working paper 329.
Supervision and Project performance: a principal-agent approach (with Paul Collier and Andreas Fuster), 2013. DIAL Working Paper 2015-04.
What Explains Aid Projects Success in Post-Conflict Situations? (with Paul Collier and Marguerite Duponchel), 2010. World Bank Policy Research WorkingPaper 5418. See also Vox column.
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, CopenhagenConsensus 2008 Challenge Paper.
The cost of failing states and the limits to sovereignty (with Paul Collier (first author) 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
La dynamique associative des Maliens de l’extérieur : enseignements tirés de deux dispositifs d’enquête originaux (with Claire Bernard, Flore Gubert, Marion Mercier and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps), Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales 30 (3 & 4), 109-137, 2014.
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.
Oldies
Aid, Redistricting and Elections: Evidence from Uganda (with Ana Mie Horigoshi).
Economic Diplomacy: Do European Donor Countries' Affiliates Benefit from Foreign Aid? (with Laurent Wagner).
Electricity and manufacturing firm profits in Myanmar (with Alvaro de Miguel Torres and Alexa Tiemann).
Democracy's Achiles Heel: Structural causes of flawed elections and their consequences for citizen trust (with Maddalena Agnoli, Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler, and Sultan Mehmood).