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Equality of opportunity and other equity principles in the context of developing countries

Cogneau, Denis - DIAL - 2005

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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Colonisation, School and Development in Africa. An empirical analysis

Cogneau, Denis - DIAL - 2003

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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Migrations internationales, libre-échange et intégration régionale

Cogneau, Denis; Tapinos, Georges - DIAL - 2000

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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Colonisation and Development in the Former French West Africa: The Long-term Impact of the Colonial Public Policy

Huillery, Elise - DIAL - 2006

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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The political dimension of inequality during economic development

Cogneau, Denis - DIAL - 2009

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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Aspiration failure: a poverty trap for indigenous children in Peru?

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure; Brandon, Fiorella Risso - DIAL - 2013

(english) This paper aims to contribute to understand the mechanisms underlying the complex exclusion process of indigenous people in Peru, by analysing the role played by aspirations in the investment in education of indigenous children. To address these issues, the paper relies on a very rich...

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Education and Labour Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan West Africa

Kuepie, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2006

(english) The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of education on urban labour market participation and earnings in seven major West African cities. Our results show that although education does not always guard against unemployment, it does increase individual earnings in Abidjan,...

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On-the-job learning and earnings in Benin, Morocco and Senegal

Nordman, Christophe; Wolff, François-Charles - DIAL - 2007

(english) In this paper, we consider a model of on-the-job learning where workers learn informally by watching and imitating colleagues. We estimate the rate of knowledge diffusion inside the firm using three matched worker-firm data sets from Benin, Morocco and Senegal. We rely on non-linear...

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Inégalités et revenus sur le cycle de vie : Analyse sur des données biographiques malgaches

Guénard, Charlotte - DIAL - 2001

This paper tries to distinguish between age and generation effects in the life cycle evolution of living standards of individuals. It is based on biographical data from a survey of 1998 made in Antananarivo and provided by the Madio project in Madagascar. Between 1965 and 1995, we observe both a...

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Mortality and survivor's consumption

Grimm, Michael - DIAL - 2006

The empirical evidence shows that in developing countries illness shocks can have a severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a household member does not only induce...

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