We study the possibility of making social evaluations independently of individual preferences over non-consumed commodities. This is related to the well-known problem of performing international comparisons of standard of living across countries with different consumption goods. We prove...

We derive the asymptotic sampling distribution of various estimators frequently used to order distributions in terms of poverty, welfare and inequality. This includes estimators of most of the poverty indices currently in use, as well as estimators of the curves used to infer stochastic...

This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on observable correlates and on estimation methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ÔfocusedÕ transfer schemes that improve anti-poverty targeting performances....

Hicks pretendait dans le cadre de l'analyse cout-benefice que la superficie a gauche de la courbe de demande -calculee en supposant que tous les autres marches sont en equilibre- etait egale a la somme des surplus de Dupuit-Marshall sur tous les marches plus le surplus des producteurs. ce papier...

Dans un modele a deux periodes on peut considerer que l'aide a l'etranger peut-etre definie soit en terme d'un bien a consommer soit en terme de controle des naissances. La taille de la population en deuxieme periode est endogene. Nous examinons l'affectation optimale de cette ressource rare en...