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European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to "natural differences" as some others did after them in the 19th or 20th centuries. Drawing from recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social sciences and in...
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transfers, call for a change in perspective and suggest considering from now on migration and development as to separate … problems. Development is a self-sufficient goal for the whole society while emigration is an individual choice which may … reflect a lack of confidence in national development prospects. _________________________________ Le papier propose une …
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We study the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Cote d’Ivoire and investigate the extent to which cocoa producers’ children suffered from this severe income shock in terms of school enrollment, increased labor, height stature and sickness. Comparing pre-crisis...
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Frenchspeaking West Africa? This paper uses the differences in development outcomes across the areas of the former French West Africa … to show the existence of colonial long term effects on development paths. To correct from potential biases, I take … strong determinant of current development of the districts of the former French West Africa. First, the African chiefs …
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poverty which is independent from 'usual' governance issues. _________________________________ Quels sont les types d …
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appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality …
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Macroeconomic data on 45 countries are combined with microeconomic data on 4 case-study countries to reveal significant differences in the levels of education attained under the different colonial powers in Africa during the colonial period. In 1960, former British colonies exhibited higher...
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(english) This last decade has seen the emergence of a new field of research in development economics: randomised …
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, show a negative relationship between the level of poverty and the support to market economy, which is not only conditioned …
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(english) Fiscal constraints and policy changes to improve the effectiveness of programmes in reducing poverty have … gradually led the international community to use tools to reach the poor. Poverty reduction policy targeting is one of them …. This paper reviews targeted poverty alleviation policies in developing countries and seeks to identify the key factors that …
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