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(english) In January 2010, Haiti has been hit by the worst earthquake in its dramatic history. It was followed by an unprecedented international mobilization. Since then, a succession of natural disasters has struck the country (floods, epidemics, etc.). At the commemoration of the fourth...
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to be thought of as extra-economic dimensions such as subjective forms of poverty, quality of institutions (especially … public institutions) and type of political regime or, more generally speaking, the society’s system of values. To meet this … qualité des institutions (notamment publiques) et le type de régime politique ou plus généralement le système de valeurs de la …
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In Africa, boundaries delineated during the colonial era now divide young independent states. By applying regression discontinuity designs to a large set of surveys covering the 1986-2001 period, this paper identifies many large and significant jumps in welfare at the borders between five...
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What is the kind of institutions that affect economic inequalities? Using a database on national income inequality for … institutions, we also find an inverted U relationship between inequalities and the extent of European settlement. We finally find a … poverty which is independent from 'usual' governance issues. _________________________________ Quels sont les types d’institutions …
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(english) This paper analyzes the impact of corruption on the extent of trust in political institutions using a rich … negatively, but differently, on citizens’ trust in political institutions. The adverse effect of perceived corruption decreases …
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(english) This paper is an attempt to assess the relevance of the use of the North, Wallis and Weingast (2009) framework to explain the performances of Burkina Faso in terms of economic growth and development. The political history of Burkina Faso has been very unstable until president Campaoré...
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