European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to … dedicated to the politics of inequality on the one hand, to political inequalities on the other hand …

What is the kind of institutions that affect economic inequalities? Using a database on national income inequality for …

appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality …

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 …

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 …

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

aid and migrants’ remittances. Results suggest that FDI increases inequality, while remittances tend to reduce inequality …