The citizens of Madagascar, and especially the capital Antananarivo, display marked support for democracy: adoption of its principles, rejection of authoritarian regimes, etc. The poor populations are no different from the other social groups in this respect. Nevertheless, living in a poor...

The multidimensionality of poverty is now widely acknowledged. Some recent studies in developed countries show that there is a weak correlation between the monetary poverty approach and the household's subjective perception of their well-being, suggesting that the subjective perception of...

In order to analyse the effect of ambiguity and uncertainty aversion on equilibrium welfare, a two period, pure exchange one good economy is considered. Agents are Choquet-expected-utility maximizers with same convex capacity and strictly concave utility index. It is proven that equilibrium is...

The article titled "Autour des taux écologiques" is a study of an economic environment in which individuals don’t care only about their intertemporal flow of consumption but also about the quality of a given natural resource, say air or water, denoted hereafter environmental good.

Cet article s'intéresse aux effets de redistribution intra-générationnelle de différentes réformes des retraites par répartition, avec une attention particulière aux bas revenus (smicards, carrières incomplètes, éligibles au minimum vieillesse). Dans un modèle analytique avec...

This paper explores the impact of Malian migrants' Home Town Associations (HTAs) located in France on the provision of local public goods in Mali. To this end, we compute an original dataset on all the HTAs that have been created by Malian migrants in France since 1981 and geo-localize their...

This paper analyses the impact of public infrastructure on the competitiveness and growth of the Senegalese economy within the framework of a computable general equilibrium model. Latreille and Varoudakis (1996) demonstrated, in partial equilibrium, that the absence of competitiveness within...

This paper assesses the impact of migrants' Home Town Associations (HTAs) located in France on the provision of local public goods in Mali. To this end, we computed a dataset on all the HTAs that have been created by Malian migrants in France since 1981 and geo-localised their interventions on...

Our aim is to merge the traditional literature on the determinant of success of special interests with the new political economy of international union. We create a political economy model of allocation of public spending among different interests. We apply it to an environment of International...