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Battesti, Vincent; Richards, Alan R. - HAL - 2004

Introduction :Du latin agricultura (ager, champs et cultura, culture), l'agriculture réfère au processus par lesquels des aliments sont cultivés et récoltés. Cela concerne aussi le secteur de l'économie dédié à l'alimentation récoltée.La culture du sol pour la production de récolte...

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Bringing It All Back Home Return migration and fertility choices

BERTOLI, Simone; Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012

Return migration exerts wide-ranging influence upon the countries of origin of the migrants. We analyze whether returnees adjust their fertility choices to match the norms which prevail in their previous countries of destinations, using Egyptian household-level data. Egyptians migrate...

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Bringing It All Back Home Return migration and fertility choices

BERTOLI, Simone; Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012

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Why do North African firms involve in corruption ?

Delavallade, Clara - HAL - 2007

This paper empirically analyzes the main microeconomic determinants of different forms of corruption supply. Our study is based on a new database of near 600 Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian firms. We show that the undeclared part of firms' sales is a major factor of their involvement in...

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Return Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt

Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012

The literature shows that temporary international migrants have a high propensity to opt for an entrepreneurial activity upon return, but the prospects of survival of these activities have not been explored. We address this research question using longitudinal Egyptian data. We find that...

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The Impact of Restrictions in Trade in the Telecommunications: an Application to Middle East and North African Countries

Montalieu, Thierry; Rabaud, Isabelle - HAL - 2012

Theoretically, welfare gains from liberalisation of trade in services arise from falling prices and technology transfers from foreign firms. Empirically, due to the role of the regulatory framework in barriers to trade in services ('behind-the-border' laws) substantial gains are only reached...

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Contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Country'S H-Index

FARHADI, MARYAM; Salehi, Hadi; Embi, Mohamed Amin; … - HAL - 2013

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development on country's scientific ranking as measured by H-index. Moreover, this study applies ICT development sub-indices including ICT Use, ICT Access and ICT skill to find the distinct effect of...

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Optimal Transition from Coal to Gas and Renewable Power under Capacity Constraints and Adjustment Costs

Lecuyer, Oskar; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien - HAL - 2014

, gas, and renewable power plants). It finds that optimal investment in renewable energy may start before coal power has … been phased out and even before investment in gas has started, because doing so allows for smoothing investment over time … and reduces adjustment costs. Gas plants may be used to reduce short-term investment in renewable power and associated …

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Entropy and the value of information for investors

Cabrales, Antonio; Gossner, Olivier; Serrano, Roberto - HAL - 2011

represented by the decrease in entropy of his beliefs, regardless of his preferences, initial wealth, or investment problem. We …

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Vintage capital and the diffusion of clean technologies

Azomahou, Theophile; Boucekkine, Raouf; Nguyen-Van, Phu - HAL - 2011

sector to study the impact of investment subsidies on equilibrium investment and output. Energy and capital are assumed to be … structures are considered for the energy market, free entry and natural monopoly. First, it is shown that investment subsidies … may induce a larger equilibrium investment into cleaner technologies either under free entry or natural monopoly. However …

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