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A two-country model of high skill migration with public education

Naiditch, Claire; Vranceanu, Radu - HAL - 2013

This paper proposes a two-country model of migration in a transferable skill sector, where workers education is provided free of charge by governments. We study firstly the non-cooperative equilibrium where the poor country decides on the education level and the rich country decides on the...

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A consensus model of political decision-making

Swart, Harrie De; Eklund, Patrik; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2008

In this paper, a model of political consensus is introduced. Parties try to reach consensus in forming a government. A … government is deﬁned as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy …. Parties may be advised to adjust their preferences, i.e., to change their evaluation concerning some government(s) or/and the …

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At stake with implementation: trials of explicitness in the description of the state

Muniesa, Fabian; Linhardt, Dominique - HAL - 2009

We develop the notion of "trials of explicitness" as a conceptual instrument for the study of the state from a pragmatist, sociological angle. We present results from an empirical case study on how state practitioners (i.e. actors in charge of expressing, evaluating, executing or reforming the...

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Assessing the potential cost of a failed Doha round

Bouet, Antoine - HAL - 2010

This study offers new conclusions on the economic cost of a failed Doha Development Agenda (DDA). We assess potential outcome of the Doha Round as well as four protectionist scenarios using the MIRAGE Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. In a scenario where applied tariffs of World Trade...

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Eight years of Doha trade talks : where do we stand

Bouet, Antoine; Laborde, David - HAL - 2010

In 2001, the World Trade Organization launched a highly ambitious program of multilateral liberalization. Eight years later, concluding the negotiations is uncertain, though an opportunity still exists. Since 2001, many proposals on market access have been brought to the negotiating table by the...

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Agricultural insurances based on meteorological indices: realizations, methods and research challenges

Leblois, Antoine; Quirion, Philippe - HAL - 2013

In many low-income countries, agriculture is mostly rainfed and crop yield depends highly on climatic factors …

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" POUR UNE APPROCHE SYSTEMIQUE DE L'EVALUATION DE LA DURABILITE DE L'AGRICULTURE : UNE SYNTHESE DES APPROCHES AGRO-ECONOMIQUES ET GEOGRAPHIQUES ?

Tafani, Caroline - HAL - 2011

concept de " système agraire territorialisé " et conduit à évaluer la durabilité d'une agriculture micro-régionale à partir de …

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Agricultural primary commodity export and environmental degradation: what consequences for population's health?

Drabo, Alassane - HAL - 2011

In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels. While the mechanisms through which trade is associated with pollution are largely investigated theoretically and empirically, the role played by each trade component has not yet...

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Agriculture and trade liberalization in Vietnam

Coello, Barbara - HAL - 2007

and regions. Trade liberalization in agriculture, between 1993 and 1998 has increased inequalities in Vietnam, with a …

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The optimal carbon sequestration in agricultural soils : does the dynamics of the physical process matter ?

Ragot, Lionel; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2006

The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to «supplementary activities» consisting particularly in carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Existing papers studying the optimal carbon sequestration recognize the importance of the temporality of...

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