rationality” depended on beliefs concerning individual responsibility in the creation of inequality. This model is then confronted …

rationality” depended on beliefs concerning individual responsibility in the creation of inequality. This model is then confronted …

we show that the plausible policy decision depend on parameters describing the balance between poverty and program … exclusion risk. In the Tunisian case, only a much larger weight put on poverty relatively to exclusion could bring the decision …

The aim of this article is to analyse in depth the interactions of growth and poverty in Syria, which undertook reforms … agriculture a decreasing one. Agricultural and land-policy reforms could have had a negative impact on poverty, despite their …

This paper is dedicated to a theoretical and empirical survey of the relationship between trade, growth, poverty and … the third part of the paper, most empirical studies on the relationship between trade, poverty and inequality show that … theory. The impact on poverty is more consistent to economic theory. These studies suggest that trade is not the main factor …

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 can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the …

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were biased due to the neglect of some important methodological issues …. This led to the so-called ‘Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox’, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost … constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national level, i …