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Why are there areas with persistenly low levels of income or consumption? This could result from the concentration of … set. Our theoretical model of household consumption growth allows for the effect of community variables to modify the … to estimate the model parameters. Several significant interesting results appear, showing that private consumption growth …
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possibly income loss, but also reduce the number of consumption units in the household. Using data from Indonesia, it is shown … in consumption units. In contrast, when prime-age adults die, survivors face additional costs and, in consequence, use …
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Les analyses existantes du développement de la pauvreté en Burkina Faso ont été biaisées par l’ignorance d’aspects méthodologiques importants. Ces biais ont conduit à un paradoxe de croissance et pauvreté, c'est-à-dire une situation où une croissance macro-économique relativement...
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This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty...
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The purpose of this paper is to explain why low-wage workers with identical qualifications to higher-wage workers are more exposed to unemployment. Each worker is considered to belong to a social group (defined according to his/her gender, age, and nationality). We assume that workers experience...
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Ce papier s’intéresse à la pertinence du concept de coping dans l’appréhension des comportements de consommation des individus seniors. En particulier, il tente de définir une articulation entre le processus de vieillissement, générant un ensemble de stresseurs potentiels, les...
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Cet article tente d’identifier empiriquement les déterminants de la croissance turque à partir de données annuelles de 1980 à 1995. L’analyse empirique s’appuie sur un modèle théorique "canonique" de croissance qui nous sert à élaborer des résultats empiriques. Il nous invite à...
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Testing for normality is of paramount importance in many areas of science since the Gaussian distribution is a key hypothesis in many models. As the use of semi–moments is increasing in physics, economics or finance, often to judge the distributional properties of a given sample, we propose a...
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