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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805102

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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El marco de la Cooperación Económica entre Brasil y África Subsahariana: Angola, Mozambique y Sudáfrica

Menes, Danthe Damián Valderrama - HAL - 2012

The study of the southern economies, among which emerging countries such as Brazil and several of Africa stand out, has acquired increasing international importance. In this article south-south cooperation between the South American giant and Sub-Saharan Africa is analyzed, focusing on the...

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BASIC effect on global climate governance. Power changes and regime shifts

Berthaud, Pierre; Voituriez, Tancrède - HAL - 2013

In this paper we address the issue of the indeterminacy of climate change negotiations and examine the role played by the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) in this indeterminacy. Mobilising the analytical tools of international political economy (IPE), we show that changes...

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Smallholders' use of Bt-cotton under unfavourable context: lessons from South Africa

Fok, Michel; Gouse, Marnus; Hofs, Jean-Luc; Kirsten, Johann - HAL - 2008

The bulk of the South African cotton crop is produced by large scale commercial farmers. Therefore it might be misleading to present South Africa's impressive Genetically Modified Cotton (GMC) adoption figures as evidence of successful GMC use by smallholder farmers. The total South African...

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Who benefits the most from peer effects within ethnic group ? Empirical evidence on the South African Labour Market

Ferrant, Gaëlle; Bourquin, Yannick - HAL - 2011

This paper provides evidence that local social interactions within etnic groups may explain the puzzling variations in labour-market outcomes across individuals. Peer effects work first by creating pressure on labor-market participation, second, by conveying information about job opportunities...

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Eliciting preferences on multiattribute societies with a Choquet integral

MEYER, Patrick; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2008

This paper aims at reexamining the construction of indicators of standards of living, by focussing on the challenges raised by the subjectivity and the multidimensionality of living conditions. For that purpose, we propose to apply Choquet integral-based multiattribute value theory to the...

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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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