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In this paper, we investigate the interactions between public debt and transfer policies in a framework based on Floden [2001], that we extend to allow for transitional dynamics between steady states. First, we show that, starting from a high level of public debt, it is possible to implement a...
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The Health, Inequalities and Social Breakdown (SIRS) survey carried out in Antananarivo in April 2003 on a representative sample of 2,807 people, is part of an international research programme designed to compare the relationships between health, inequalities and social breakdowns in different...
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This paper focus on the trade-between work and informal care among individuals aged 50 to 65.We first outlines the standard microeconomic model used to study how individuals allocate their time between labour, parental care and leisure. From the two first-order conditions of the standard model,...
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the world in a sample of about 50 countries. The paper focuses particularly on the fact to prioritize poverty as the most … important problem, as poverty constitutes an important dimension of inequalities. Differences between countries appear: the … richer the country, the less poverty is considered as the most important problem. To explain these differences, two …
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the risk of poverty. This is an alternative to Collier and Dollar’s proposal (2001) which stresses the impact of aid on … worldwide poverty reduction. The big problem with their approach, as regards distributive justice, is that it leaves very great … inequality in poverty risk between inhabitants of countries with widely varying structural disadvantages. We draw on post …
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. These findings tend to discount the presence of poverty traps, and exhibit the potential long-term benefits from well …
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(freely decided rather than dictated by necessity) help reveal forms of assumed marginality rather than poverty. Based on a … / the value, ii / the thrown objects, iii / conventional supply chains and iv / the idea of poverty that is re …
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This paper studies the impact of earthquakes on farm business assets in rural Indonesia. Using a panel fixed effects model, we evaluate if the negative consequences of earthquakes extend beyond the immediate event into the medium and long-term. Our results suggest that rural households were able...
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Democratic Republic of Congo has known dramatic events for the last three decades. Statistical social economic data did not exist really or not available in the period. The Labour force survey, the first phase of the 1-2-3 survey, carried out in 2004-2005 and conducted by the National Statistic...
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Democratic Republic of Congo has known dramatic events for the last three decades. Statistical social economic data did not exist really or not available in the period. The Informal Sector survey, the second phase of the 1-2-3 survey, carried out in 2004-2005 and conducted by the National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074432