Conference in Honor of Prof. Jean-Claude Berthélemy

June 13, 2019, Paris

Speech by Patrick Guillaumont about international aid allocation.

ean- Claude Berthélemy is an Emeritus professor of Economics and former Dean of the Sorbonne School of Economics. Previous positions include  Director of Research at the OECD Development Centre and Director of the  CEPII. He is the founder and Director of the Panthéon Sorbonne Master in  Economics program. He is also a Correspondent of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, and a Senior Fellow at FERDI.
A specialist in development economics, he has contributed among others, to topics as poverty traps, human capital and development, access to electricity and development.
He has also written extensively on aid and development finance. He has contributed to the foundation of the interdisciplinary journal Field Action Science Reports, as chief editor of its economics section, and he is associate editor of the Journal of African Economies, Savings and Development, and Revue d’Economie du Développement.
He is a co-founder and vice-president of Sorbonne Développement Durable, an interdisciplinary initiative promoting academic activities on sustainable development.

Many issues on development were discussed during the day:

Introduction 

Ariane Dupont (Dean of the Sorbonne School of Economics)

Josselin Thuilliez (CNRS- Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Ferdi)

Economic Growth

Aristomene Varoudakis (Université de Strasbourg | UNISTRA Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion et Economie) : Finance and Growth

Felipe Starosta de Waldemar (Université Paris Sud) : Diversification and Growth

Patrick Guillaumont (FERDI) : Aid and Development

A venir : "L’économie politique de l’allocation de l’aide : du positif au normatif  ou comment le positif et le normatif s’entremêlent."

Human capital and Development

Florence Arestoff (Université Paris-Dauphine|UMR LEDa-DIAL) : Education and Development

Jean-Pierre Laffargue (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne | École d'économie de la Sorbonne): Demography and Development

Josselin Thuilliez (CNRS- Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne|Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Ferdi) : Education and Health

Santé et démographie

Martine Audibert (CNRS CERDI Université Clermont Auvergne, Ferdi): Health and Development

Henri Leridon : Demography and Development

Institutions and Development

Jean-Paul Azam (Toulouse School of Economics) : Conflicts and Development

Catherine Bros (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne): Inequalities, Public Goods and Development

Développement durable

Rémi Bazillier (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne): Social development

Victoire Girard (Université d'Orléans | LEO) : Natural Resources

Jaime de Melo (Université de Genève, Ferdi): International Trade and environment (see presentation below)

Mathilde Maurel (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) : Climate change and migration

Testimonials of friendships

Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte (OECD)

Morgan Hull (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Abdoullah Coulibaly (Institut des Hautes Etudes en Management, Fondation de Bamako)

Semi Cherif (Centre de Tunis de la Réflexion Stratégique)

Discussion and conclusion by Jean-Claude Berthelemy