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Transportation Conditions and Access to Services in a Context of Urban Sprawl and Deregulation. The Case of Dar es Salaam

Olvera, Lourdes Diaz; Plat, Didier; Pochet, Pascal - HAL - 2003

Major deficiencies in urbanisation and transportation systems are reinforcing patterns of social and urban segregation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city. Analysis of the 1993 Human Resources Development Survey shows that there are numerous obstacles to the daily travel of the city's...

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Social Exclusion and Capability

Salais, Robert - HAL - 2003

This lecture delivered to an international Conference in Norway on social exclusion and marginalization offered a preliminary approach to capture social exclusion phenomena as capability deprivation. It also offers a first sketch about the several methods of inquiry with regards to the different...

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A non-dictatorial criterion for optimal growth models

Kama, Alain Ayong Le; Van, Cuong Le; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2008

There are two main approaches for defining social welfare relations for an economy with infinite horizon. The first one is to consider the set of intertemporal utility streams generated by a general set of bounded consumptions and define a preference relation between them. This relation is...

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Tax-benefit revealed social preferences

Bourguignon, François; Spadaro, Amadéo - HAL - 2008

This paper inverts the usual logic of applied optimal income taxation. It starts from the observed distribution of income before and after redistribution and corresponding marginal tax rates. Under a set of simplifying assumptions, it is then possible to recover the social welfare function that...

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Tax-benefit revealed social preferences

Bourguignon, François; Spadaro, Amadéo - HAL - 2005

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Welfare economics

Baujard, Antoinette - HAL - 2013

This paper presents the Paretian Watershed and the fundamental theorems of welfare economics. It distinguishes the British approach (à la Kaldor-Hicks) from the American approach (à la Bergson-Samuelson) to new welfare economics. It develops the more recent domains of happiness economics, the...

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Social Optimum in an OLG Model with Paternalistic Altruism

Davin, Marion; Gente, Karine; Nourry, Carine - HAL - 2011

There is no consensus yet on the correct way to write the social utility function in presence of paternalistic altruism … altruism enters the social utility function; otherwise it does only depend on the capital share as in the standard golden rule …. In a two-sector model, optimal growth depends on preferences and relative capital intensities when paternalistic altruism …

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Altruism in Networks

Bourlès, Renaud; Bramoullé, Yann - HAL - 2013

We provide the first theoretical analysis of altruism in networks. Agents are embedded in a fixed, weighted network and …

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Préferences psychologiques et nouvelle économie politique

Billot, Antoine; Marlats, Chantal - HAL - 2009

First, we present what is called the Theory of Psychological Preferences (altruism, rational reciprocity...) through … collective impact of altruism, social loyalty, intrinsic reciprocity and so forth . …

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Polluting Industrialization

Constant, Karine; Nourry, Carine; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2011

link with pollution. We develop a simple overlapping generations model with paternalistic altruism according to wealth and …

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