After decades of intensive research on the statistical size distribution of income and despite its empirical weaknesses, the lognormal distribution still enjoys an important popularity in the applied literature dedicated to poverty and inequality. In the present study, we emphasize the drawbacks...

Après des décennies de recherches intensives sur les distributions de revenus et malgré ses faiblesses empiriques, la loi log-normale jouit encore d'une popularité importante dans la littérature relative à la pauvreté et aux inégalités. La présente étude tente de mettre en évidence...

Many authors have demonstrated that credit market imperfections lead to situations of permanent income inequalities. Depending on the authors, the channels of investment which are at the source of the income formation, differ; whereas some have chosen physical capital investment, the others have...

Many authors have recently emphasized the crucial role of income inequalities in the design of efficient policies aimed at reducing poverty. However, the link between variations of the degree of inequality and variations of poverty are not well documented. The literature, for instance, does not...

This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into growth and inequality effects. After a complete and critical review of the invariance axioms suggested in the literature, we show that few information is needed for the ordering of...

L’étude du textile à Sfax constitue l’objet analytique de cet article. La première section décrit le secteur à travers son importance pour l’économie régionale et ses caractéristiques de développement dans une dialectique locale de respect et d’évolution des traditions...