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Cet article étudie l'impact des transferts des migrants sur la croissance et le développement du capital humain dans leurs pays d'origine. Une étude empirique portant sur un panel de 19 pays durant la période 1999-2009 et utilisant la méthode des moments généralisés en système montre que les transferts accélèrent l'accumulation du capital humain et stimulent la croissance dans les pays en question. L'impact des transferts sur le capital humain et sur la croissance est plus important dans les pays où le niveau des dépenses publiques d'éducation est élevé, ce qui suggère que les transferts agissent en complémentarité avec les politiques visant à développer le capital humain. Les résultats révèlent également que l'impact des transferts est plus important dans les pays où le revenu par tête est faible. Les transferts constituent donc une source de financement alternative des dépenses de scolarisation chez les ménages à faibles revenus.

This book assesses the extent to which good governance may contribute to enhancing economic performance and social welfare in developing countries, globally. Governance has been pointed out as one of the major weaknesses of developing economies and may largely be attributed to weak governance practices at both the macro- and micro-level. This book highlights the channels through which governance may act on various economic sectors and different key economic variables. In doing so, it enables policymakers to identify and implement policies and procedures to promote good governance. This book provides a transnational perspective on good governance in considering developing countries in Asia, Africa and beyond, presenting respective case studies in single country settings, enabling a comparative perspective between and across all chapters. Covering topics that include the intersection between governance and gender, inequality, poverty, education and health, the book provides diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on important issues facing policymakers, investors and other stakeholders and is relevant to graduate students and researchers interest in policy issues in the developing world.

Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of the shadow economy on three sustainable development indicators while considering the moderating effect of the governance quality, and to highlight the non-linearity of the considered relationship.Design/methodology/approach A sample of 82 countries covering the period from 1996 to 2017. The dynamic first-differenced generalized method of moments (FD-GMM) panel threshold model is implemented to control for non-linearity.Findings The shadow economy hinders sustainable development in countries with low-governance quality, while the opposite result holds in countries with high-governance quality. The critical thresholds triggering the switch from one regime to another vary across the sustainable development indicators. Boosting growth requires enhancing the legal system and the economic dimension of governance, while promoting environmental quality requires the implementation and enforcement of specific environment-friendly regulations.Originality/value The study addresses non-linearity and the moderating effect of governance quality. The use of six governance indicators allows to gauge the ability of each governance dimension to curb the negative effects of the shadow economy. Considering the three objectives of sustainable development allows to identify specific policy recommendations for each of them.