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Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for inequality and poverty measures

Davidson, Russell; Flachaire, Emmanuel - HAL - 2007

inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …

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Trade-Induced Changes in Economic Inequality: Assessment Issues and Policy Implications for Developing Countries

Chabe-Ferret, Sylvain; Gourdon, Julien; Marouani, … - HAL - 2011

The starting point of this paper is given by country situations where trade liberalization is expected to be poverty … and inequality alleviating in the long run while inducing a short run increase in poverty or in inequality. The question … trade policies within a global policy framework so as to enhance growth and reduce poverty and inequality. The method …

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Openness, Inequality, and Poverty: Endowments Matter

Gourdon, Julien; Maystre, Nicolas; De, Jaime Melo - HAL - 2011

Using tariffs as a measure of openness, this paper finds consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization, measured by changes in tariff revenues, is associated with increases in inequality...

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Openness and Inequality in Developing Countries: a New Look at the Evidence

Gourdon, Julien - HAL - 2011

Integration to world markets is expected to help developing countries to access prosperity. At the same time, increasing opportunities to trade are likely to affect income distribution and whether or not increasing openness to trade is accompanied by a reduction or an increase inequality is...

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Task Organization, Human Capital and Wages in Moroccan Exporting Firms

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe J. - HAL - 2013

We conduct a case study of the linkages of task organization, human capital accumulation and wages in Morocco, using …

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The Free Trade Agreement Between the United States and Morocco. The Importance of a Gradual and Assymetric Agreement

Abdelkmalki, Lahsen; Jallab, Mustapha Sadni; Sandretto, … - HAL - 2007

The agreement recently signed between Morocco and the United States foresees several modalities in dismantling tariffs … a gradual and asymmetrical agreement. In addition, the FTA between the US and Morocco will have a significant impact not … trade diversion will affect the EU and particularly France, which is Morocco's largest trading partner. It will also …

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The Free Trade Agreement Between the United States and Morocco. The Importance of a Gradual and Assymetric Agreement

Jallab, Mustapha Sadni; Abdelkmalki, Lahsen; Sandretto, … - HAL - 2007

The agreement recently signed between Morocco and the United States foresees several modalities in dismantling tariffs … a gradual and asymmetrical agreement. In addition, the free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and Morocco will have a … most important trade diversion will affect the EU and particularly France, which is Morocco's largest trading partner. It …

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Reforming Trade in Services and Negotiation Processes in Morocco

Diani, Adil - HAL - 2011

liberalization in order to meaningfully enhance a nation's economic growth and development. Morocco has signed, ratified, and … of services are gaining in importance in Morocco's foreign trade policy. Moreover, Morocco has continued to reform its … to outline some features that concern the trade in services policies and reforms in Morocco and its negotiation process …

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From Growth to Poverty Reduction: a New Conceptual Framework in Development Economics

Sindzingre, Nicole Alice - HAL - 2008

Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only … theme of research in development economics, by poverty and its reduction, together with an expansion of the meanings of the … concept of poverty. The key points of the paper are that this shift represents a crucial turning point in the conceptual …

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Breadth and depth of french microfinance outreach : an evaluation

Brana, Sophie; Jégourel, Yves - HAL - 2011

French but also European economies are driven by micro, small and medium enterprises. However, evidence shows that micro-enterprises, representing 99 per cent of all newly created businesses, suffer from a lack of external resources, especially those created by socially excluded persons....

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