Francois Bourguignon

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the macroeconomic and structural constraints to scaling up aid flows to developing countries to meet the Millennium Development Goals in 2015, including infrastructure, competitiveness and the real exchange rate, labour markets, fiscal constraints, governance, and aid volatility and fragmentation.

TL;DR: The 16th annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) was held in May 2004 as discussed by the authors, where the authors reviewed the lessons of 60 years of development experience, addressing key topics such as infrastructure, behavioral economics, trade, poverty and globalization.

TL;DR: The 16th edition of the World Bank Conference on Development Economics was held in Washington on May 3-4, 2004 as mentioned in this paper with the theme of lessons of development experience, which was divided into four topics: lessons of experience, behavioral economics, infrastructure and development, and trade and development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to simulate the effects of those alternative program designs on welfare and behavior, based on micro-econometrically estimated models of household behavior.