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Subsidy Policy for Innovation: A way to reach objectives of both higher growth and equity?

Montmartin, Benjamin - HAL - 2010

Since the Lisbon Agenda (2000), the European Union policies are in- creasingly oriented towards innovation as attested to by the deep change of the new Regional Policy. This paper proposes an analysis of an innovation subsidy policy in an agglomeration and growth model à la Martin and Ottaviano...

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The empirics of economic geography: How to draw policy implications?

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - HAL - 2010

Using both reduced-form and structural approaches, the spectrum of policy recommendations that can be drawn from empirical economic geography is pretty large. Reduced-form approaches allow the researchers to consider many variables that impact on regional disparities, as long as they are careful...

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The Economic Contribution of Diasporas to their Home countries: the Case of the Palestinian Diaspora

Loddo, Stéphanie - HAL - 2006

This case study outlines the nature and scope of the contribution of the Palestinian diaspora to the economy of the Palestinian territories with a specific attention given to the Palestinian diaspora in the United Kingdom. Research gaps and suggestions for further research are discussed.

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Children's first names and immigration background in France

Arai, Mahmood; Besancenot, Damien; Huynh, Kim; Skalli, Ali - HAL - 2009

We present evidence indicating that immigrants and especially those from the Maghreb/Middle-East give first names to their children that are different from those given by the French majority population. When it comes to natives with an immigrant background, these differences are very little...

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Inequality in Emerging Countries

Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - HAL - 2012

We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly describe the main observed de velopments and show that these are rather diverse across countries and developing regions. We subsequently expose the main theoretical mechanisms. We...

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Modelling Transition And International Opening In Asia: The Case Of Vietnam With A Comparison With China And The "Asian Tigers"

Sand-Zantman, Alain; Brillet, Jean-Louis; Van, Cuong Le; … - HAL - 2000

This paper describes the multisectoral macroeconomic model of a small developing economy in transition, in order to highlight linkages between agriculture and the rest of the economy, and consequences of external opening up. Agriculture is a supply sector, sticky in the short range with market...

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Cutting the Climate-Development Gordian Knot - Economic options in a politically constrained world

Hourcade, Jean Charles; Shukla, P.-R.; Mathy, Sandrine - HAL - 2005

from development issues. In addition to the impossibility to get an agreement on rules for quota allocation among all the … parties, this system shows irreconcilable contradictions between climate and development issues. This article aims, starting … from examples of synergies between climate and development, at enunciating bases of an amended Kyoto Protocol which could …

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Will GDP growth increase happiness in developing countries?

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2010

ones. Second, development is a qualitative process that involves take-offs and thresholds. Such regime changes are eye …-income countries, they would certainly help measuring and monitoring the different stages and dimensions of the development process. …

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The Great Happiness Moderation

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2012

much. Behind the veil of ignorance, lower happiness inequality would certainly be considered as attractive by risk …

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Economic Growth Evens-Out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2014

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly...

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