This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …

“Accelerated Growth Strategy” (Stratégie de Croissance Accélérée in French or SCA) in the fight against poverty. We start by an … analysis of the macroeconomic foundations of growth in Senegal and then examine the evolution of labor market and social … indicators over the period under study. We show that growth achievements did not meet the targets set by the SCA. Despite the …

(english) Since the 1994 devaluation, growth has been quite strong in Mali (about 5% p.a. on average), but much weaker … in terms of GDP per person (about 2.6% p.a.) due to a very high index of fecundity. Growth is still very unstable, due to … a surge after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro …

Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim of reducing poverty by half … growth strategy is not really in accordance with the Senegalese Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper …

his reputation for truthtelling, we show that the larger is the inequality, the less information can credibly be … transmitted to the policymaker. We also investigate the effects of inequality on welfare and discuss the welfare effects of …

Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … valued welfare measure. It proposes a lexicographic L*-ordering, where the first rank criterion corresponds to an inequality …

, fertility, and household composition, are analysed. The effects of the educational expansion on the growth of household incomes …