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Determinants of diffusion and adoption of improved technology for rice parboiling in Benin

Dandedjrohoun, Lidia; Diagne, Aliou; Biaou, Gauthier; … - HAL - 2012

The widespread use of traditional rice-parboiling methods in Benin leads to poor quality of final rice. To address this … problem, the national agricultural research institute of Benin and Africa Rice Center have developed improved rice parboiling … central Benin to estimate the actual and potential adoption rates of this technology and the determinants of its diffusion and …

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Decentralization in Africa and the nature of local governments' competition: evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie; Rota-Graziosi, Grégoire; Foucault, … - HAL - 2011

a spatial lag model, our analysis provides evidence for the presence of strategic interactions in Benin, contingent on …

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Institutional Evolution, static and dynamic approaches in assessing performance related to development goals

Fok, Michel; Tazi, Sophia - HAL - 2003

1. The Resocot Projet is a research project which brought together teams of researchers from the North and Africa, not all of which were familiar with the theoretical approach used at the outset. This project aims at developing a methodology and materials to help assess the performance of the...

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Life and Death of Roscas : If Power Corrupts, Does Powerlessness Make One Blameless ?

Dagnelie, Olivier - HAL - 2007

roscas from Cotonou, Benin. We notice that the groups run by a president alone are more likely to fall apart. We also present …

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Prevention against equality?

Fleurbaey, Marc; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2012

Common sense supports prevention policies aimed at improving survival prospects among the population. It is also widely acknowledged that an early death is a serious disadvantage, and that attention should be paid to the compensation of short-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the...

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Compensating the dead? Yes we can!

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2010

An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has remained so far largely unexplored, probably because it appears infeasible. Indeed, short-lived agents can hardly be identified ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue...

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Actuarial risk assessment of expected fatalities attributable to carbon capture and storage in 2050

Ha-Duong, Minh; Loisel, Rodica - HAL - 2011

This study estimates the human cost of failures in the CCS industry in 2050, using the actuarial approach. The range of expected fatalities is assessed integrating all steps of the CCS chain: additional coal production, coal transportation, carbon capture, transport, injection and storage, based...

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Family policies : what does the standard endogenous fertility model tell us ?

Baudin, Thomas - HAL - 2008

There exists a large consensus in the economic literature and in the economic institutions about the legitimacy of policies subsidizing education. This legitimacy lies in the fact that education is a source of positive externalities. In a standard framework of endogenous fertility, the present...

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How Powerful is Demography? The Serendipity Theorem Revisited

Croix, David De La; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

Introduced by Samuelson (1975), the Serendipity Theorem states that the competitive economy will converge towards the optimum steady-state provided the optimum population growth rate is imposed. This paper aims at exploring whether the Serendipity Theorem still holds in an economy with risky...

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Asymptotic age structures and intergenerational trade

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

While demographers Lotka (1939) and Lopez (1961) proposed conditions on (exogenous) fertility and mortality laws under … issues of age structure stabilization and convergence, by considering a population whose fertility and mortality are … structures will end up with the same long-run age structure when fertility and mortality laws are converging, which requires …

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