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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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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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Family income and child outcomes: the 1990 cocoa price shock in Cote d’Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi - DIAL - 2008

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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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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Colonization, Institutions, and Inequality, A note on some suggestive evidence

Cogneau, Denis; Guénard, Charlotte - DIAL - 2003

What is the kind of institutions that affect economic inequalities? Using a database on national income inequality for 73 non-European countries, we show that 'good governance' not only contributes to the level of income but also to a more equal distribution by increasing the income share of the...

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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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The gold standard for randomized evaluations: from discussion of method to political economy

Bédécarrats, Florent; Guérin, Isabelle; Roubaud, … - DIAL - 2015

(english) This last decade has seen the emergence of a new field of research in development economics: randomised …

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