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Equality of opportunity and other equity principles in the context of developing countries

Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

I propose a personal reading of some theories of social justice at a moment when the issue of equality or equity appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality of opportunity principle. After having briefly...

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Institutions, gouvernance et croissance de long terme à Madagascar : l'énigme et le paradoxe

Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, François; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

democratic alternation of power); the setting up of sound institutions that characterise “modern” societies; control of violence …

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Institutional changes: Alternative theories and consequences for institutional design

Brousseau, Eric; Garrouste, Pierre; Raynaud, Emmanuel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

This paper surveys alternative approaches to the emergence and evolution of institutions. The challenge is to develop …, institutions are viewed as rules imposed on individuals and the focus is on the strategic games among coalitions that aim to … promote or block new rules. In the second, institutions are viewed as shared beliefs; here the idea is to analyze how …

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The Political Dimension of Inequality During Economic Development

Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX)

European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to "natural differences" as some others did after them in the 19th or 20th centuries. Drawing from recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social sciences and in...

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